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		<title>Qatar starts population census; Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to follow next week</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Habib Toumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar has launched a two-week population census that will allow the country to have a peek into its future. The census, under the supervision of the Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA) on Tuesday night, will be the largest conducted in the country. In a move, over 3,000 field surveyors were at the airport, port and land border crossings as well as hotels to have a head-count of people leaving the country. “This head-count is important because we want to know how many people were in the country when the census began and how many left on that day,” Shaikh Hamad Bin Jabor Bin Jassem Al Thani, QSA President, said. &#8220;Visitors, expatriates as well as citizens leaving the country will all be counted.&#8221; Shaikh Hamad said that 7,000 families had registered online to take part in the census and that they would be given passwords through SMS and emails to access the online census forms. Field staff will start visiting homes after the April 26 deadline of the e-forms. They also visit labour accommodations and report on their conditions, the QSA chief said. A workshop will be held one month following the conclusion of the last phase of the census on May [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi King Abdullah given rapturous welcome in Bahrain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Habib Toumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saudi King Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz arrived in Bahrain on Sunday afternoon to an unprecedented rapturous welcome on his first official visit to the island kingdom since he assumed power in August 2005. Bahrain’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, Prime Minister Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, Crown Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, ministers and senior officials welcomed King Abdullah at the Sakhir airport, in the southern part of the country. The official reception was held a few kilometers away at the Sakhir Palace where the two leaders exchanged greetings. King Hamad offered King Abdullah a sword that belonged to Saudi leader Turki Bin Abdullah Bin Mohammad Al Saud who had presented it to the ruler of Bahrain in 1870 for giving him and his 250 men hospitality. The sword remained for 140 years in the custody of Al Khalifa family. King Hamad bestowed the Shaikh Eisa Medal of the Excellent Class upon the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques who in turn granted the King Abdul Aziz Medal to King Hamad. The two leaders then took part alongside ministers and senior officials in an open-air traditional sword dance until a few minutes before sunset. The official reception complemented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi Arabia king starts historic visit to Bahrain on Sunday</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Habib Toumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saudi King Abdullah will arrive in Manama on Sunday in his first visit to Bahrain since he became ruler in August 2005. Talks with Bahrain’s leaders during the two-day visit will focus on bilateral relations and cooperation and the latest regional and international developments. Welcoming the breakthrough visit, Bahraini MPs and officials said they were confident it would “bolster the special ties between the two countries and would spur cooperation in various areas.” Bahrain Chamber for Commerce and Industry issued a statement that highlighted the political and business ties between the two neighbours and hailed the visit as a consolidation of their robust relations.   The Islamic Menbar and several MPs have also issued statements to welcome the Saudi monarch and express their support to political coordination between Manama and Riyadh. Several Bahraini organizations published long articles to greet the Saudi monarch and stress “the cordiality and special ties uniting the two countries.” Bahrain and Saudi Arabia are linked via a 25-kilometre causeway opened in November 1986 and used daily by an average of 21,188 cars, vehicles and trucks from both sides of the shores. King Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s first ruler, visited Bahrain in 1930 and then in May [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Erdogan to receive &#8220;Service to Islam Prize&#8221; this week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Habib Toumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recep Tayyip Erdogan &#8211; World Bulletin   Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to Saudi Arabia this week to receive the King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam, popularly known as the &#8220;Arab Nobel Prize.&#8221; Erdogan who will make the visit on March 8 and 9, told the International Islamic News Agency, that the prize was awarded not only to him but also to the Turkish nation and Turkey. &#8220;The prize is really meaningful for its title,&#8221; Erdogan was quoted as saying. “As a Muslim, it is out of question for me to think about anything other than the service mentioned in that title (service to Islam),&#8221; he said. The prize, given every year by Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Faisal Foundation, is presented to scientists and people who create positive differences in the world and make contributions to Islam. According to Saudi daily Arab News, two internationally acclaimed mathematicians, Professor Enrico Bombieri from the US and Professor Terence Chi-Shen Tao from Australia, were declared co-winners of the prize in science (mathematics). Professor Reinhold Ganz from Germany and two professors from Canada’s Montreal University, Jean-Pierre Pelletier and Johanne Martel Pelletier, were declared co-winners of the prize in medicine. “The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia to supply Kuwait, Saudi Arabia with weapons as Iran deal delayed for technical reasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Habib Toumi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia will supply Kuwait with several types of weapons under a bilateral agreement, Kuwaiti media said on Wednesday. Quoting Alexander Kinshchak, Russia&#8217;s ambassador to Kuwait, Al Anba said that the two countries have agreed on all the details and that Kuwaiti experts will be trained on the use of the new weapons. A Kuwaiti military delegation is expected to fly to Russia for matters related to the training, the paper said. Kinshchak who was talking at a reception he hosted to mark the Army Day, however, refused to give details about the weapons. &#8220;We are now in the implementation stage and we will scrupulously apply all the conditions stipulated in the agreement,&#8221; he said. Kinshchak said that Kuwait- Russia military cooperation was robust and included technical reinforcement in all military areas, but ruled out joint exercises in the present time. &#8220;We do not have military units in Kuwait in order to engage in military manoeuvres.  However, such cooperation could take place in the future,&#8221; said Kinshchak who has been in his post in Kuwait since April 2008. &#8220;The fact that we can cooperate indicates that we have good relations.&#8221; Asked about the delay in delivering the S-300 air defense missiles [...]]]></description>
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