Gulf Air, Bahrain’s national carrier has introduced a new incentive for its Frequent Flyer Programme (FFP) members travelling from Bahrain and London. The airline’s FFP members can now redeem their earned miles for excess baggage when departing from Bahrain International Airport or London Heathrow Airport to their respective destinations. This new incentive was officially launched [...]
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called on Muslim clergymen in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia to counter destructive religious ideas being spread from foreign countries. “It is of the utmost importance that Muslim clerics should work with ordinary people to ensure that various dubious ideas that frequently come from abroad lose their appeal,” Medvedev [...]
Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in the Greek capital to protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit. Protesters held two separate rallies in central Athens to protest Israel’s attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla as well as Israeli policies in the Middle East. Protesters held up banners reading “Freedom to Palestine” [...]
David Cameron last week challenged France and Germany over their opposition to Turkish membership of the EU when he issued a stark warning of the dangers of shutting Ankara “out of the club”. In a passionate defence of Turkey, whose EU ambitions have long been championed by Britain, the prime minister accused Paris and Berlin [...]
A European campaign to lift the siege on Gaza revealed that it will soon make contacts with a number of well-known international athletes, particularly in Europe, to explore the possibility of their participation in Freedom Flotilla 2, which is scheduled to sail to the Gaza Strip by the end of September. Rami Abdo, a member [...]
Gulf Air now flies direct from Bahrain to Medina, ‘The enlightened city’. Rich in Islamic culture, Medina is home to Al Masjid al-Nabawi and Al Baqi Cemetary. Flying Direct to Medina, another reasonto fly Gulf Air Lowest Fares Guaranteed at www.gulfair.com
Hundreds of people have rallied against the government’s spending cuts. Spanish public sector trade unions are holding strikes around the country in protest against government austerity measures. Hundreds of civil servants rallied outside the finance ministry building in Madrid, the capital, last week, blowing horns and chanting protest slogans…. To read the Full Article and [...]
Two Bosnian Serbs have been convicted of genocide by a UN war crimes court and sentenced to life imprisonment for their role in the Srebrenica massacre of around 8,000 Muslim men and boys in 1995. The judgment, delivered middle of last week, is the harshest ever by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia [...]
A group of Spanish intellectuals launched a petition campaign for the country’s most prestigious award to be given to descendants of Moorish-Andalusíes’ this year. The intellectuals say on the petition campaign, that “as it coincides with the four hundred anniversary of their last banishment from the Iberian Peninsula, it is a symbolic gesture as well [...]
Swiss voters recently voted to ban the construction of new minarets. In recent years, both mosque and minaret construction projects in many European countries, including Sweden, France, Italy, Austria, Greece, Germany and Slovenia, have generated protests, some of them violent. French President Nicolas Sarkozy favours a burqa ban, saying the veils compromise women’s dignity. Unlike [...]
