Insulting Bahrain’s king could cost you up to $26,500 and up to 7 years in jail
Bahrain’s new law punishing those who insult the king comes just a week before the three-year anniversary of mass pro-democracy protests. The King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, attends the 34th summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) at the Bayan Royal Palace in Kuwait City on Dec. 10, 2013. (YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images) If […]
Read More →Woman in “fake” Saudi princess case worked as prostitute in Dubai, witness says
By Beatrice Thomas (Getty Images – for illustrative purposes) The woman at the centre of a $20m London property fraud case allegedly worked in Dubai as a prostitute 20 years ago, a former friend has claimed. Negat Ali, an Ethiopia-born south London furniture dealer, has previously told a London court that Sara Al Amoudi was not […]
Read More →Assad Future Blocks Progress In Syria Peace Talks
By ZEINA KARAM 01/28/14 05:29 AM ET EST GENEVA (AP) — The key issue of a transitional government to replace President Bashar Assad blocked any progress Monday in Syrian peace talks, described by one delegate as “a dialogue of the deaf.” The chief U.N. mediator expressed frustration over inflammatory public remarks by the two sides as […]
Read More →Ousted Egyptian leader Mohamed Morsy denounces trial
By Schams Elwazer. Reza Sayah and Holly Yan, CNN Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy is shown on January 30, 2013, in Berlin. (CNN) — Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy, appearing before a Cairo court Tuesday to face charges related to a 2011 jailbreak, denounced the process as unfair and unjust. Speaking from inside a soundproof glass enclosure, Morsy demanded to […]
Read More →Ariel Sharon dies aged 85
Ariel Sharon, the former prime minister of Israel, has died after eight years in a coma A 2001 file picture of then-Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon placing his hand on the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site, in the Old City of Jerusalem  Photo: THOMAS COEX/AFP By Robert Tait, Jerusalem 12:31PM GMT 11 Jan 2014 Ariel Sharon, who was Israel‘s […]
Read More →As Indian Diplomat Exits After Arrest, a Culture Clash Lingers By ELLEN BARRY and BENJAMIN WEISER
NEW DELHI — Two dozen revved-up television crews were clustered outside a V.I.P. exit at Indira Gandhi International Airport on Friday, waiting for the flight from New York. They had been in place for two hours, and every time a trickle of passengers came into view, they all jumped up and pressed their cameras against […]
Read More →Dubai resident shortlisted from more than 200,000 people for Mars One mission
 Mohammed n al khan DUBAI// The race is on to become the first person to go to Mars – and Khalid Al Jaaidi is well and truly on the starting line. The 21-year-old designer has been shortlisted along with 1,058 applicants for the Mars One mission. More than 200,000 people applied for the chance […]
Read More →Saudis lament, ‘we have been stabbed in the back by Obama’
By Richard Miniter FoxNews.com Arabs don’t trust Obama either. As 2013 ends, President Obama has lost credibility with many people who trusted him at the start of the year. Thanks to the Healthcare.gov debacle, polls find support for the president among women and independents has dropped to the lowest ebb of his presidency. Obama’s words — […]
Read More →Dubai Sets A World Record With The World’s Largest Fireworks Display On New Year’s Eve JULIE ZEVELOFF
It’s another feather in Dubai’s hat: The city appears to have broken the record for the largest fireworks display of all time this New Year’s Eve. Guinness World Record adjudicators were on hand to record the attempt. screenshot via NBC News Fireworks cover the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper. The pyrotechnic […]
Read More →Mohamad Chatah, Lebanese ex-minister, killed in Beirut bombing
Former prime minister accuses Hezbollah of involvement in the killing The Associated Press Lebanese ex-minister, killed in Beirut bombing Former Lebanese minister Mohamad Chatah, who opposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was killed in a massive bomb blast on Friday which one of his political allies blamed on the Shi’ite Hezbollah militia. Friday’s attack also killed […]
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