Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met with the commander of CENTCOM in Florida on the first day of his official visit to the US that will also include a meeting with President Donald Trump. Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim ...
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Qatar receives invitation from Arab League Secretary-General to attend the summit in the Saudi capital on April 15. The ongoing Gulf crisis will not be on the agenda of the Arab League summit planned in Riyadh in mid-April, a spokesperson ...
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Royal met a host of household names from Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey to Dwayne Johnson and Sir Richard Branson He talked about the movie business with Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Dwayne Johnson over dinner at Rupert Murdoch’s house. He ...
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‘Britain is a major player on the world stage and this new Naval Support Facility will help us tackle the growing threats to our nation’ Britain has opened a permanent military base in Bahrain in an attempt to boost its role ...
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New anti-cybercrime law designed to ‘protect morals of individuals and society’ could see offenders sentenced to 12 months in prison Saudi Arabia has announced that spying on your partner’s mobile phone is a criminal offence as part of a ...
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DOHA (Reuters) – OPEC and its allies should maintain oil supply curbs to guarantee healthy price levels which will allow increased investment in the industry and help avoid a supply and price shock in the long run, OPEC ...
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The find catapults the kingdom to the top of the shale oil league MANAMA — A new discovery off the coast of Bahrain is estimated to contain at least 80 billion barrels of tight oil, the kingdom’s biggest ...
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Duo, who wanted to visit imprisoned rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, told by officials they were ‘security risks’. A Danish MP and an Irish human rights activist have been denied entry to Bahrain after they cited their reason as visiting a prominent Bahraini ...
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Qatar’s Civil Aviation Authority says Emirati accusations are an attempt to cover up UAE’s breaches of Qatari airspace. Qatar has denied accusations of intercepting two of the United Arab Emirates’ passenger flights, the third such incident over airspace since ...
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Saudi Arabia’s widely-lauded reforms are no more than a public relations blitz aimed at masking Riyadh’s rights record and are “fooling nobody”, Amnesty International said on Thursday. Saudi Arabia, a key US ally and the world’s largest oil exporter, ...
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Saudi Arabia continues to commit widespread violations of basic human rights. The most pervasive violations affect persons in the criminal justice system, women and girls, migrant workers, and religious minorities. Persecution of peaceful dissidents and independent human rights ...
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Interior minister says government will draft new legislation to fight accounts spreading ‘malicious rumours’. Bahrain threatened to hunt down social media users who are sowing “chaos” as the Gulf nation continues to target human rights proponents. In a statement published on ...
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