outh American music, dance and films will be highlighted at a festival to be held in Qatar next month, organisers have said. The 10-day Latin American Cultural Festival (LACF), at the Cultural Village Foundation in Katara, will bring together over 230 artistes and performers from nine different South American countries and will feature 15...
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Qatar festival to highlight Latin American arts
Qatar imposes cap on medicine prices
Qatar’s Supreme Council of Health (SCH) is putting a ceiling on the prices of all imported medicines and other pharmaceutical products distributed by a leading wholesaler in the country to check an unreasonable price hike imposed by the company over the past few months.
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Justice Minister refutes low-voter turnout arguments
Bahrain’s justice minister on Monday said that he would not be drawn into a “malicious interpretation” of the parliamentary by-elections voter turnout figures. “No-one can doubt in the legitimacy of the Bahraini parliament, particularly that it has the backing of 51.4 per cent of the eligible voters,” Shaikh Khalid Bin Ali Al Khalifa said....
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Law is blind to gender status, Justice Minister says
The 38 women who were arrested last week have been transferred to the public prosecutor to decide on their case, the justice minister said on Monday. “The law in Bahrain does not differentiate between men and women and all people regardless of their gender are required to comply with the law,” Shaikh Khalid Bin...
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32 sentenced to 15 years in jail for damaging private property
A Bahraini court on Monday sentenced 32 people to 15 years in prison each on charges of damaging farms and private property belonging to members of the royal family. The National Safety Court said that the defendants were also guilty of possessing and carrying Molotov cocktails.
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5,549 people interviewed by probe commission
An international commission probing the incidents that hit Bahrain in February and March 2011 and their subsequent consequences said on Monday that it had conducted 5,549 interviews and received 8,818 complaints since the beginning of its investigation on July 20. “Interviews will continue until September 30 before the commission begins to collate all its...
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Children undergo weight loss surgeries in Qatar hospital
Qatar’s struggle with obesity is becoming so dire that Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has started performing bariatric/weight loss surgery on children, a local daily reported. HMC said that it would have a centre of excellence in bariatric surgery within six months in order to meet the increasing need for weight loss procedures.
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