A Kuwaiti politician has requested the country’s foreign minister to explain details of the assurances Kuwait has received from Iran and Russia about the high level technology used in Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor. “You have issued a statement last week about Kuwait receiving assurances from Iran and Russia about environmental threats from Bushehr nuclear reactor,” [...]
Makkah, Islam’s holiest city says it is prepared for the last 10 days of Ramadan when the number of pilgrims coming to the city is expected to peak. Many Muslims are keen to do Etikak (isolation for worship) at the Grand Mosque during these final 10 days of fasting. King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz said [...]
Meshaal said in a speech in Damascus that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was too weak to stand up to Israel and negotiate a just deal at the talks in Washington on Sept. 2. “If the talks succeed they will succeed to Israeli standards and liquidate the Palestinian cause. They’ll give us parts of 1967 lands. [...]
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has stressed the pressing need for an Emergency Disaster Response Fund to deal with natural calamities in member states, as the Kingdom raised SR400 million in relief for Pakistan. Ihsanoglu was speaking at an emergency meeting of the OIC on Wednesday to pledge support, solidarity [...]
Chinese laborers working on the Haramain Rail project have spoken of their joy after embracing Islam. There are 4,600 Chinese nationals working on the scheme, which when completed will link the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah via Jeddah and Rabigh. Among them, 370 are already born Muslims. Last year, over 600 of them embraced [...]
Chinese laborers working on the Haramain Rail project have spoken of their joy after embracing Islam. There are 4,600 Chinese nationals working on the scheme, which when completed will link the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah via Jeddah and Rabigh. Among them, 370 are already born Muslims. Last year, over 600 of them embraced [...]
Qatar will this month make theoretical classes part of driving lessons under new rules for driving schools, a senior traffic official has said. Brigadier Mohammad Sa’ad Al Kharji, director of the Traffic Department, said that executive regulations would be issued soon as a precursor to the implementation of the new rules on August 27. [...]
Relations between India and Oman are going from strength to strength, as trade increases, according to the Ambassador to Oman, Anil Wadhwa. The diplomat was addressing a gathering, at a ceremony held at the Indian embassy premises in Muscat, as the Indian community celebrated the country’s 64th Independence Day. He also revealed that trade [...]
Israeli warplanes fired missiles at two smuggling tunnels in Gaza Strip on last Monday, causing damage but no causalities were reported, according to witnesses. The Israeli attack created a state of fear among civilians, especially women and children. Witnesses said that the Israeli air strikes which targeted two tunnels near Salah Al-Deen gate along [...]
Bee farmers from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen, Kuwait, Algeria and Saudi Arabia are taking part in an international honey festival that opened in the southern tourist resort of Baha on last Monday. Prince Faisal bin Muhammad, deputy governor of Baha, opened the eight-day festival in Baljurashi and toured the 60 exhibitors’ pavilions displaying [...]
