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An Emirati businessman was hospitalised in the US state of Ohio after local police officers aggressively arrested him, and yelled at him to get on the ground, after a call was placed by a hotel guest claiming he had “pledged allegiance” to Daesh. CCTV footage from the scene shows 41-year-old Ahmed Al Menhali– from Abu Dhabi- standing outside his hotel...

The new law regulating entry, exit and residency of expatriates in Qatar has transformed the Kafala (sponsorship) system in the country into one controlled by employment contracts, a senior official of the Ministry of Interior has said. When Law No. 21 of 2015 that regulates the entry, exit and residency of expatriates in Qatar comes into force towards the end...

Tweet   Top Reasons why you could be banned in GCC The Gulf cooperation council (GCC) is an intergovernmental economic and political union of gulf countries, also known as Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf. Its member states are the Islamic States of Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE). This council is a union of...

Customs officers at the Hamad International Airport, in the Qatari capital, have arrested a Yemeni man attempting to smuggle more than 12 kilograms (27 lbs) of sliced bacon hidden in his anal cavity. 53-year old Abd al Rahman Shamoun, was spotted by a specially trained police dog, looking for drugs or pork meat on passengers and in their luggage. He appeared...

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani yesterday sent cables to United Arab Emirates President, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, and Supreme Council Member and ruler of Fujairah, Sheikh Hamad bin Mohamed al-Sharqi, condoling...

The coach of Al Wakrah, Kais Ya’e2koubi feels that the Blue Waves must beat Al Khor and win their remaining two matches in the Qatar Stars League to escape relegation. Whereas, coach of Al Khor, Jean Fernandez, insisted that his team may not salvage the season if they fail to beat Al Wakrah, as reported by Qatar Tribune. According to the...

As many as four Nigerians have been sentenced to 7 years in prison and fined an amount of QR100, 000 each for money laundering by a Doha Criminal Court. The honourable court also ordered that the defendants be deported from the country upon serving their sentence. The defendants were also convicted by the court for seizing an amount of £27,...

Temperature in the country is slowly, but surely rising as spring moves more towards the summer season. The Met Department in its daily weather report has predicted the temperature in Abu Samra to rise to 37C today, making it the hottest place in the country today. The next hottest place in the country is expected to be Dukhan at 35C, followed...

A Jordanian man has been sent to prison by a Doha Criminal Court for one year for the crime of counterfeiting the signatures of owner of the company he worked for and using the forged signatures to sell two work visas. Investigations into the case revealed that the man had reportedly sold two work visas to expat women for the...

The Emirates Airbus 380 – flight EK405 – was bound for Dubai when the incident occured. An Emirates plane and a Scoot aircraft came into contact in the early hours of Thursday at Changi Airport. An Emirates spokesperson told Khaleej Times: “Emirates flight EK405 from Singapore to Dubai on 30 March was slightly damaged during pushback. Engineering inspections determined that some...

Arabs open to Palestine talks; VP says region has no option but to face its challenges by itself Arab leaders said at the end of a summit in Amman on Wednesday that they would be ready to have a historic reconciliation with Israel in return for its withdrawal from land it occupied in the 1967 war. A communique read by the...

You can only imagine the look on Lauren Whiteley’s face when the ultrasound technician had a stunned reaction to her routine ultrasound. The expecting mother from Detroit, Michigan, assumed the worst. “It was the ultrasound tech that kind of left the room, came back and I thought something was wrong,” Lauren said in 2015. “She said, ‘No it’s good news.’...

When the bleeding wife shouted for help, the husband got furious and shot three bullets into her. The Ras Al Khaimah Criminal Court has ordered an Emirati man, in his 40s, to serve 15 years in jail for shooting his wife dead with his pistol over family disputes. As per court records, the case dates back to July 2016 when the...

THE fate of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has perplexed the world for more than three years… but now an outlandish theory claims it could shed light on what happened. Some conspiracy theorists claim the lost plane could have been taken by aliens and even zapped through a space/time portal. The speculation of extraterrestrial involvement in the disappearance of the aircraft...