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Sars-like coronavirus now called Mers kills again in Saudi Arabia
RIYADH // An 81-year-old woman who had contracted a Sars-like coronavirus has died in Saudi Arabia, raising the death toll in the kingdom to 18, the health ministry said in a statement yesterday. "An 81-year-old woman who was suffering from kidney failure as well as other chronic illnesses has died" in the eastern Al-Ahsaa region of oil-rich Saudi Arabia after contracting the virus, ...
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Syrian refugees strain Jordan
Ducking and diving between the neat rows of whitewashed mobile homes, children play chase as the sun sets behind the gently rolling desert plains in Jordan's Halabat district. They are among the 2,900 Syrians seeking shelter in the UAE-funded Emirates-Jordanian Camp, located 80 kilometres north-east of Amman. Many of the 770 homes are empty, ready for their intake of more families escaping ...
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Terminal Expansion Begins at Omans Port of Sohar
has broken ground on the first phase of its capacity expansion in the Port of Sohar.The construction will pave the way to increase the terminal's capacity from the current 800,000 20-foot-equivalent units to 1.5 million TEUs toward the end of this year. It will also enable the consolidation of the existing and future container-handling operations at the port. The investment in this ...
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Egypt court decision striking down ban on police and army vote stirs worries among some
FILE - In this Thursday, June 14, 2012 file photo, Egyptian soldiers stand guard during a protest in front the Supreme Constitutional Court, Egypt's highest court, background, in Cairo, ...
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Bahrain Ambassador Attends GCC Ceremony
Riyadh-May-26(BNA)Bahrain Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Shaikh Humood bin Abdulla Al-Khalifa today attended a ceremony marking the 32nd anniversary of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The GCC general secretariat hosted the celebration at its headquarters in Riyadh under the patronage of Riyadh Province Governor Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud. Shaikh Humood ...
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Arab League chief urges Hezbollah to stop fighting in Syria
Syria 's civil war, after two rockets hit a Shi'ite Muslim district of Beirut. Sunday's rocket attack was the first to apparently target Hezbollah's stronghold in the south of the Lebanese capital since the outbreak of the two-year conflict in ...
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Qatar no longer interested in hosting the UN Civil Aviation Agency
Amid anger, outrage and scorn from Montreal, Qatar has dropped a proposal to move a United Nations aviation body to Doha. In tweets posted yesterday, the Canadian foreign minister John Baird announced: Last month, Qatar offered the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) a chance to set up its headquarters in Doha, starting in 2016. The offer included a promise to bankroll the ...
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King of Jordan receives Abdullah bin Zayed
Amman, 26 May 2013 (WAM) - His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan received here today UAE Foreign Minister H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, which was held at the Dead Sea region. Sheikh Abdullah conveyed to the King of Jordan greetings of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. King Abdullah praised his country's ...
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This is the real text Pres. Peres Address to WEF in Jordan
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Yes. When you read through the text it does sound a bit like a parody of Shimon Peres. But ...
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Saudi Arabia reports death toll reaches 18 from new respiratory virus related to SARS
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry says a woman has died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 18. Saudi Arabia remains the center for the virus as investigators from the World Health Organization seek more clues about its origins and how it is spread. Last week, WHO officials said at least 22 people have ...
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Sanaa aims to organise Yemeni returns from Guantanamo
In this Jan. 14, 2011, file photo human rights activists, hooded and wearing orange prison garb to represent prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, demonstrate in front of the White House in Washington because the prison has not been closed down by President Obama. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, ...
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Reports Kuwait oil minister resigns under pressure over Dow payment
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait media say the Gulf nation's oil minister has resigned after criticism of a $2.2 billion compensation payment over a collapsed business deal. There was no immediate official comment Sunday on the reported resignation of Hani Hussein, but he has faced calls to be questioned in parliament over the payment to Dow Chemical Co. Some lawmakers have demanded an investigation ...
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Al Qaeda rehab includes spa treatments family fun time in Saudi Arabia
FILE - This undated file photo shows al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. A federal appeals court is backing the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia turned down ...
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British Ambassador to Bahrain Isa Award for Service to Humanity is a Wonderful Humanitarian Initiative which embodies Bahrain’s Message to the World
Manama, May 26th (BNA) -In a statement for the British Ambassador to Bahrain, Ian Lindsey on the sidelines of presenting the Award under the patronage of His Majesty King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa at Isa Cultural Center, he congratulated Bahrain and HM the King for the wonderful ceremony. He expressed that the winner of the Award, Dr. Jameela Mahmoud greatly deserved it for her humanitarian ...
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IMF Arab Spring Nations Face Delayed Economic Recovery
AMMAN -- Arab spring countries face rising social tensions that could thwart an early economic recovery from over two years of political turmoil that has worsened fiscal pressures and threatens macroeconomic stability, a senior IMF official said on Saturday. Masood Ahmed, International Monetary Fund (IMF) director for the Middle East and North Africa, said oil importers Morocco, Tunisia, ...
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Kuwait police bust 76 at rowdy party
A particularly wild party Kuwait landed 76 revelers in jail on charges ranging from drinking to cross-dressing, police said. The reported Bacchanal was raided by officers who said they found a crowd of men and women dancing up a storm in various stages of inebriation and undress, Gulf News said Sunday. "The police found semi-naked men and women dancing to loud music and they all seemed ...
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Restricting Speech Restricts Arab Freedom
The sight of hundreds of thousands of Arabs marching on the streets of a number of Arab countries, demanding their dignity and rights, will remain among the iconic images of the twenty-first century. The willingness of so many citizens to take such tremendous risks to their own lives, with thousands dying for their freedom, stunned a world long accustomed to the image of the resigned, ...
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Voice on a boy from Nanjing who inscribed “Ding Jinhao was here” on the wall of a temple in Egypt
"The blame should be placed on his parents."Yang Jinlin, a media commentator columnist,on a boy from Nanjing who inscribed "Ding Jinhao was here" on the wall of a temple in Egypt, quoted by Sina Weibo on ...
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Syrian rockets strike Beirut
Lebanese security forces stand guard next to destroyed cars after two rockets exploded in Shiah, a southern suburb of Beirut, on Sunday. At least four people were wounded when the rockets exploded in the Shiite-majority Hezbollah heartland of south Beirut, a Lebanese security source said. Photo: ...
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UFMCO first time participants at Cityscape Qatar
United Facilities Management Company (UFMCO) to showcase its offerings at Cityscape Qatar 2013 for the first time, following recent contract wins. The ISO-certified FM firm, which is a subsidiary of the United Development Company (UDC), has recently been contracted by Viva Bahriya 29, a high rise residential tower in The Pearl-Qatar’s Viva Bahriya precinct, to provide a full one-year ...
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Kerry presses Egypt over reform
US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Egypt to act swiftly on economic reforms to secure a $4.8 billion IMF loan, saying the measures were needed to get further aid from the US Congress, an American official said.Kerry met Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi for about an hour on the sidelines of an African Union summit on Saturday, discussing Syria's civil war, the Israeli-Palestinian ...
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Bahrain Ambassador to Egypt participates in the Ceremony of the Organization of African Unity marking the 50th Anniversary of its Inception
Addis Ababa, May 26th (BNA) - Ambassador of Kingdom of Bahrain to the Arab Republic of Egypt, and Ambassador of Kingdom of Bahrain to the African Union (as an observer) Shaikh Rashid Bin Abdul Rahman Al Khalifa participated in the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the inception of the Organization of African Unity in 1963, which turned now into the African Union. The celebration was ...
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Arab Cotton Ginning to sell land plot in Kafr El Shiekh Governorate
) announced that company's management initially approved to sell a land plot in Desouk City in Kafr El Shiekh to a number of investors. The company added, in a release sent to EGX that, the company would take the required procedures in case of BOD ...
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Kuwait oil ministers resignation accepted media
Kuwaiti Oil Minister Hani Hussein speaks to the media upon arriving at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Oil Ministers meeting in Riyadh October 9, ...
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Egypts antiquities languish in wake of Arab Spring
CAIRO // Cairo, the Arab world's most populated city, is often referred to as an open-air museum of Islamic antiquities and the city of 1,000 minarets. But its rich history and contributions to Islamic art has languished. The city has seen some of its most beautiful antiquities looted or neglected over the last two years following the 2011 uprising that ousted the country's ruler ...
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