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| Humanitarian dimension 'key element of foreign policy' |
| Source : Gulf Times |
| Date : 2013-05-18 |
| HE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah said yesterday that the "humanitarian dimension" represented "an important and essential aspect" in Qatar's foreign policy as per... |
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| Mobile users asked to guard against recharge fraudsters |
| Source : Arab News |
| Date : 2013-05-18 |
| Fraudsters are robbing mobile phone users of their hard-earned cash by getting them to pay for recharge vouchers in exchange for bogus cash prizes.... |
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| UN, Russia for urgent Syria meet; France opposes Iran's presence |
| Source : The Peninsula |
| Date : 2013-05-18 |
| UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Russia agreed yesterday that a peace conference on Syria should be held "as soon as possible", even as Moscow defied growing global pressure over its... |
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| Syria refugee numbers top 1.5m: UN |
| Source : Gulf Today |
| Date : 2013-05-18 |
| More than 1.5 million Syrians have fled their conflict-ravaged homeland, the UN's refugee agency said on Friday, warning that the real figure could be even higher as the tally only... |
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| Munich security conference to focus on Gulf challenges |
| Source : Gulf Times |
| Date : 2013-05-18 |
| The Munich Security Conference (MSC) continues its MSC core group meeting series in 2013 with a new regional focus on the Arabian Gulf. On May 21 and 22, the MSC... |
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| Repatriation of Indians in Saudi Arabian prisons proposed |
| Source : Arab News |
| Date : 2013-05-18 |
| Riyadh and New Delhi are working on a proposal to repatriate Indian prisoners to India and to allow them to serve their remaining jail terms that adhere to an existing... |
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| 90% of Qataris satisfied with facilities at hospitals |
| Source : Gulf Times |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| As many as 90% of Qatari nationals are satisfied with the standards of public sector health provision, making the country top the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region with... |
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| Bahrain govt dispels oppn rumours on campaigner |
| Source : Khaleej Times |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Bahrain has denied rumours spread by the opposition that a human right campaigner has gone missing from prison.... |
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| Coronavirus spreads from patient to nurse |
| Source : Arab News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Two health workers in the Kingdom have become infected with a potentially fatal new SARS-like virus after catching it from patients in their care — the first evidence of such... |
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| Emirates ID must for HAAD transactions |
| Source : Khaleej Times |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Starting June 1, all applicants processing documents or carrying out any transaction with the Health Authority — Abu Dhabi (HAAD) will be required to present their Emirates ID cards.... |
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| Illegal workers use grace period to make money |
| Source : Arab News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Illegal workers here are trying to make as much money as possible before July 3, the end of the three-month grace period, which requires them to either rectify their status... |
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| Iranian cleric says women can't be president |
| Source : Arab News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| A member of Iran's constitutional watchdog group insists that women cannot be presidential candidates, a report said Thursday, effectively killing the largely symbolic bids by about 30 women seeking to... |
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| Obama, Erdogan meet as Syrian war rages |
| Source : Arab Times |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| President Barack Obama met Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday as world leaders scramble to find a way to ease Bashar Assad from power and end Syria's bloody civil... |
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| Rights group blasts Kuwait proposed tough media law |
| Source : Kuwait Times |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Human Rights Watch said yesterday a proposed media law by Kuwait would increase state control and curtail the right to free speech, as authorities suspended a popular talk show program... |
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| Senior US general visits Baghdad for security talks |
| Source : Saudi Gazette |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| General Lloyd Austin, the officer who oversaw the US military withdrawal from Iraq, visited Baghdad for talks on defense cooperation and security issues including Syria, the US Embassy said Thursday.... |
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| Ties with Afghanistan reviewed |
| Source : Oman Daily Observer |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Sayyid Khalid bin Hilal al Busaidy, Minister of the Diwan of Royal Court, received in his office here yesterday Dr Zalmai Rassoul, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, who is on a... |
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| Troops push back rebels from Aleppo prison |
| Source : Gulf Today |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Syrian rebels withdrew from a prison in the northern city of Aleppo on Thursday after heavy fighting with government troops, an activist group said, as it more than doubled its... |
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| UAE charity distributes food aid in Sanaa |
| Source : Gulf Today |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| The Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation (KF) in Yemen has distributed 17,000 food parcels to poor Yemeni families in Sanaa.... |
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| Violence continues in Iraq; 17 more dead |
| Source : Arab News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Car bombs struck the Iraqi capital and a northern city yesterday, killing 16 people, while gunmen in another Baghdad incident shot dead the brother of a lawmaker, officials said.... |
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| GCC archeological exhibition opens in Bahrain |
| Source : Kuwait News Agency |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| The fourth GCC Archeological Exhibition kick-started at the Bahrain National Museum here on Thursday, putting on display a collection of antiquities that back to pre-historical, post-historical, pre-Islamic and post-Islamic periods.... |
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