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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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| Qatari cabinet condemns Israeli atrocities |
| Source : Gulf Times |
| Date : 2013-05-16 |
| The weekly Cabinet meeting, presided over by HE the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Mahmoud, yesterday condemned the Israeli atrocities in the... |
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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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| Scores of people killed in Iraq bombings |
| Source : Kuwait News Agency |
| Date : 2013-05-16 |
| Nine people were killed while several others were injured due to bomb attacks wreaking havoc across Iraq Thursday.... |
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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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| 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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| UNGA members express frustration at failure to resolve Syria's crisis |
| Source : Kuwait News Agency |
| Date : 2013-05-16 |
| "Enough is enough, enough to complacency, enough to fratricide," the President of the United Nations General Assembly stated loudly during Wednesday's Assembly's session over Syria as divisions persisted among member... |
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| US-led navies press Gulf manoeuvres amid Iran tensions |
| Source : Khaleej Times |
| Date : 2013-05-16 |
| Divers leap from a helicopter into the Gulf's choppy waters to destroy a mine, while a US marine fires at a floating target, as forces from 41 countries gathered for... |
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| Wave of bombings kills at least 33 in Iraq |
| Source : Khaleej Times |
| Date : 2013-05-16 |
| A car bomb exploded near a bus station in Baghdad's main Shia district Wednesday, the deadliest in a series of explosions that killed at least 33 people nationwide, officials said.... |
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| Iran hard-liners urge election ban on top rivals |
| Source : Arab News |
| Date : 2013-05-16 |
| Hard-line Iranian lawmakers have petitioned authorities to bar two prominent presidential contenders a moderate former president and a protege of current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from running in next month's election... |
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| OIC urges member states to help end violence in Mali |
| Source : Arab News |
| Date : 2013-05-16 |
| Ekmeleddin Ihsanuglu, secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), told Arab News that the OIC was among the first to put Mali at the top of its list... |
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