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2 September 2010 – Crucial Middle East Talks Day
The U.S. will play an active and sustained role in the crucial direct talks on Middle-East peace process on Wednesday, with participating leaders arriving here and U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton holding a first round of talks with some of them.
The key officials, responsible for the talks, hoped that the direct [...]
Obama and change in the Middle East
Opinion polls give you numbers. But the coffee shop we recently visited in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia gave us the reason behind them.
When we walked into the small establishment in the oil-rich Gulf city, the air was heavy with fruit-flavoured shisha smoke. Like most cities, the patrons automatically assumed we were American.
With the assumptions made, the [...]
Middle East – Bombers as bombshells
For years, Anat Berko spent hours in prisons speaking with Palestinian inmates, for the most part females, who had been involved in suicide terror attacks. No one would deny that it’s not easy to be exposed to people whose victim you could have been, to hear their hair-raising stories and develop personal relationships with the [...]
BlackBerry Ban – Middle East Hot Issue
To ban or not to ban the BlackBerry, that is. It’s been a hot debate in the Middle East for nearly two weeks, ever since the United Arab Emirates announced a ban on messaging and other BlackBerry services, to go into effect in October. This triggered a round of negotiations with Research in Motion, the [...]
U.S. to Send Imam in Ground Zero Debate to Middle East
Some lawmakers have urged the State Department to rethink plans to sponsor the imam behind a controversial mosque on a trip to the Middle East.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is at the center of efforts to build a mosque near the site of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York. He is going to the [...]
Team to be formed to eye To Monitor Fees Charged By Recruiting Offices.
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor will soon form a team to monitor the fees charged by domestic labor recruiting offices in the country during Ramadan, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily quoting sources.
Sources revealed some domestic labor offices usually charge exorbitant fees during Ramadan, depending on the nationality of the housemaids. They said the team [...]
Kuwait’s Union of Consumer Cooperative Societies will be decreasing the prices of around 400 food and non-food commodities.
Kuwait’s Union of Consumer Cooperative Societies said on Thursday that they will work on decreasing the prices of around 400 food and non-food commodities by up to 55 percent, in attempt to ease financial pressure on citizens and residents alike in the upcoming period, particularly the holy month of Ramadan.
The union is keen on providing [...]
Kuwait to charge over staying visitors KD 10/Day
Violating the period of stay while on visit to Kuwait generates a fine of KD 10 each day and maximum of KD 1,000, reports Al-Shahid daily.
The daily quoting reliable sources from the Ministry of Interior added that individuals on visit visa violating the residency law will be banned from entering the country for two years, [...]
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry Warns Against hiking prices of foodstuffs and other commodities.
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) will take strict legal procedures against anyone caught manipulating or hiking prices of foodstuffs and other commodities during or before the holy month of Ramadan, Al-Anba daily quoted Undersecretary Rashed Al-Tabtabaei as saying.
Al-Tabtabaei said this during a meeting with Assistant Undersecretary for Commercial Affairs Ali Al-Baghli and supervisors [...]
Kuwait participates in Radiation Protection Program In Jordan
A radiation protection program kicked off here Sunday, with representatives from 12 Arab countries, including Kuwait, participating. The five-day program is co-organized by the Arab Atomic Energy Agency (AAEA) and Jordan Nuclear Regulatory Commission (JNRC). Speaking to KUNA, Amina Ahmadi, representative of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Health protection and radiation directorate, said Kuwait’s involvement in [...]