The Shoura Council has called on the Ministry of Culture and Information to provide it with the precise details of FM broadcasts from the precincts of the Diplomatic Quarter in Riyadh....
Saddam Hussein believed Iran was a significant threat to Iraq and left open the possibility that he had weapons of mass destruction rather than appear vulnerable, according to declassified FBI documents on interrogations of the...
The UAE commended today the role the Islamic, Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) is playing in promoting the Islamic culture regionally and internationally and offered to put its potentials at the service of the...
Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister for Cabinet Affairs and Minister of State for Development and Housing Affairs Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah stressed here Thursday the government was earnest in implementing its program of action for national...
Qatar saw its population fall by more than 40,000 people in June from May, after witnessing growth for the first five months of the year, official data showed yesterday....
Iranian hardliners pressed yesterday for legal action against moderate leaders accused of inciting post-election turmoil that has dimmed Western hopes of engaging Tehran on its disputed nuclear programme....
The U.S. government on Thursday said it has declared Kata'ib Hizballah a foreign terrorist organization, saying the group is linked to Lebanon's Hezbollah and has posed a threat to stability in Iraq....
Saudi Arabia will be a partner of a major European initiative called Green Public Diplomacy, which calls for intensified efforts to create green environment, control pollution on a global level, adopt environmental-friendly technology and encourage...
The political unrest in Iran over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election marks a key point in the ideological struggle between ultra-conservatives and reformers, according to analysts....
Kuwait's parliament on Thursday approved the 2009-10 state budget which projects a sharp drop in revenues and spending due to lower oil prices and a four-billion-dinar ($13.8-billion) deficit....
Iraq plans to bring forward a second bidding round for major energy contracts and may give foreign firms another run at oilfields that were left over after this week’s sale, which clinched only one deal....
UAE banks that are owed money by two cash-strapped Saudi business groups have begun debt-restructuring talks with the borrowers and were awaiting advice from the UAE Central Bank about how much money to provide against...
Retail gold sales in Abu Dhabi jumped over 30 per cent in June due to holiday buying which is expected to stay robust into the first-half of July, traders said on Thursday....
Concerted reforms underway in each country in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to achieve and sustain international standards of healthcare delivery will provide a catalyst for expenditure to boom, benefiting the growing population and providing...
All Gulf Arab bourses rose in low volume trading yesterday, as improved sentiment in global markets continued to spill into the region, and traders consolidated positions ahead of the release of company earnings....
Bahrain-based Islamic investment bank Gulf Finance House (GFH) yesterday denied it is was in talks to merge with Kuwait's First Investment Bank or any other bank, dismissing a media report....
