[29/October/2013] MANAMA, Oct. 29 (Saba) - The Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC) Secretary General on Tuesday said that the Gulf mediation has had a crucial role in ending crisis in Yemen via the Gulf initiative.The Gulf initiative was a lifeline prevented Yemen from being steered towards a potential civil war, and opened doors for a political solution that paved the way for a power transfer and the start of the national dialogue conference, Abdullatif al-Zayani said in his speech at the opening of Read more [...]

A senior Bahraini politician and crown prince has insisted the reason for and answer to his country's recent political unrest is "economic", even as demonstrators demand complete overhaul of the autocratic monarchy-based political system. Bahrain's repressive Sunni government has largely kept a lid on the Arab Spring protests in its country by using force to quell demonstrations, locking up and torturing the political opposition, and cracking Read more [...]

Dubai: A court in Bahrain has sentenced a 32-year-old Indian man to three years in jail for allegedly forging credit cards.The High Criminal Court in Bahrain convicted the Indian man of forgery and theft for using forged credit cards, the Gulf Daily News reported today.However, the defendant said he had been framed by his employer.He claimed he was assaulted, tied up and held captive for a month by his employers after he was caught stealing.The accused is already serving a five-year sentence Read more [...]

Manama: Oct. 29 -- (BNA)-- Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Al Amer, the Chairman of the Bahrain's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) received a book on "Achievements and Way Forward for the Arab Region" written under an initiative of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Mr. Brahima Sanou, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau presented the book to Dr. Al Amer during the Arab Read more [...]