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| New MoDPF building opens, to offer quality services |
| Source : Oman Daily Observer |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| The Ministry of Defence's Pension Fund Building was opened yesterday under the auspices of Sayyid Badr bin Saud al Busaidy, Minister Responsible for Defence Affairs and Chairman of the Board... |
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| Prisons overcrowded |
| Source : Arab News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Prisons are experiencing overcrowding due to an increase in the number of inmates and a delay in releasing inmates who have completed their sentences, the Kingdom's prisons department chief has... |
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| Haia chief slams Twitter's misuse |
| Source : Arab News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Social networks, particularly Twitter, should not take over peoples' lives, the head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has said.... |
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| Sermons at holy mosques in English too |
| Source : Arab News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Sermons delivered at the Two Holy Mosques in Makkah and Madinah will soon be translated into English for the benefit of millions of non-Arabic speakers around the world.... |
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| 14 plans referred to Cabinet |
| Source : Gulf Daily News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| MPs yesterday approved 14 proposed projects and schemes, which were referred to the Cabinet. They are:... |
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| Collector's items go under the hammer |
| Source : Gulf Daily News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Stamps, coins and rare documents worth thousands of dinars went under the hammer during a special event at the Arts Centre last night.... |
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| Bahrain to attain key health goals |
| Source : Gulf Daily News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Bahrain is on track to achieve most of its key health targets related to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report.... |
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| Budget rejected in pay rise row |
| Source : Gulf Daily News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Parliament has refused to approve the national budget, already delayed by six months, because it does not include 15 per cent pay rises for 45,000 civil servants.... |
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| National drugs database plea |
| Source : Gulf Daily News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Bahrain has been urged to set up a national database of prescription drugs in a bid to tighten controls on the supply of painkillers.... |
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| Iran must be part of talks on Syria, says Russia |
| Source : The Peninsula |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Iran must take part in a proposed international conference to end Syria's civil war, but that Western states wanted to limit the participants and... |
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| WHO reports a healthy outlook... |
| Source : Gulf Daily News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Bahrain is on track to achieve most of its key health targets related to the Millennium Development Goals, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report.... |
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| More sports centers for young Saudis, says Prince Nawaf |
| Source : Saudi Gazette |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| President of Youth Welfare Prince Nawaf Bin Faisal Bin Fahd called for hundreds of new district sports centers to be established in various cities of Saudi Arabia to keep children... |
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| Proud moment |
| Source : Saudi Gazette |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Deputy Minister of Defense Prince Fahd Bin Abdullah attends the graduation ceremony of the 26th batch of students at King Fahd Naval Academy in Jubail, Wednesday evening.... |
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| Budget set back |
| Source : Gulf Daily News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| MPs have vetoed the national budget in a vote that could see up to 350,000 Bahrainis miss out on financial benefits.... |
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| Bosnia expels Iranian diplomats |
| Source : Saudi Gazette |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Bosnia has expelled two Iranian diplomats suspected of spying, including contacting a radical leader, a security ministry source said Thursday.... |
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| Al-Nusra Front executes Assad supporters: Video |
| Source : Saudi Gazette |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| A video distributed Thursday by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights shows jihadists in the east of the country executing supporters of the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad.... |
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| No moral high ground for Assad |
| Source : Arab News |
| Date : 2013-05-17 |
| Chemical weapons have one drawback for those who are evil enough to use them. Though the poisonous gases may kill and cripple, as they spread silently and insidiously in a... |
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| UN nuclear talks with Iran fail to end deadlock |
| Source : Khaleej Times |
| Date : 2013-05-16 |
| The United Nations' nuclear agency failed to persuade Iran on Wednesday to let it resume an investigation into suspected atomic bomb research, leaving the high-stakes diplomacy in deadlock.... |
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| Speaker says all's fine after meeting Kuwaiti premier |
| Source : Kuwait Times |
| Date : 2013-05-16 |
| National Assembly Speaker Ali Al-Rashed said yesterday that he believes "things were moving in the right direction" after he discussed the latest political standoff with Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber... |
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| Saudi King appoints 16 judges |
| Source : Arab News |
| Date : 2013-05-16 |
| Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has issued a royal decree promoting and appointing 18 judges at the Saudi Court of Grievances.... |
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