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News breakers
18 Nov '09 | Media & Marketing / Interviews
... . From the technology perspective, there are many barriers to achieving this. Mustafa: You see glimpses of this already though. When journalists were expelled from Iran during the most recent elections, the vast majority of footage that came out of the country was shot by civilians using camera ...
First Qatari elections unlikely in '08
25 Feb '08 | Politics & Economics / News
... prime minister of Qatar, which missed a 2007 target for its first parliamentary election, said he did not expect Qataris to cast ballots this year as the Gulf state ... Opec-member has the world's third largest gas reserves after Russia and Iran and has a booming economy fuelled by high energy prices. ...
Arab League calls for 'immediate' Lebanon election
6 Jan '08 | Politics & Economics / News
... with Lebanon's political crisis."The ministers welcome favourably the consensus around Michel Sleiman as a candidate for the presidency and call for his immediate election in accordance with the constitution," Mussa said, reading from a statement.He said Syria, represented at the meeting by foreign ...
Slow progress made in Lebanon talks
18 May '08 | Politics & Economics / News
... .A six-member committee created on Saturday to lay the framework for a new election law made progress early on but was later stuck on how to divide Beirut ... remain," one senior delegate said.Washington blames Syria and Iran for Hezbollah's offensive last week which forced the government to rescind ...
GCC holds urgent meet following Israel election
22 Feb '09 | Politics & Economics / News
... by Saudi daily the Saudi Gazette.The same sources said the ministers would also discuss Iranian officials’ recent claims that Bahrain should be a province of Iran.The meeting will draw up a joint Gulf strategy to ensure Bahrain’s sovereignty and integrity, the newspaper added.Discussions will also ...
Zain lifts Kuwait after contract win
12 May '09 | Financial Markets / News
Mobile Telecommunications Co (Zain) climbed 1.3 percent after winning the contract for Iran's third mobile network licence on Monday. This helped lift the Kuwait index KWSE, which climbed 0.2 percent to 7,700 points.Agility climbed 4.5 percent. The logistics firm has surged 19 percent since ...
Obama vows to forge Israeli bond
24 Jul '08 | Politics & Economics / News
... lacks experience on the global stage.The senator reiterated his vow to stop Iran developing a nuclear weapon, but defended his offer of talks with ... solid Democratic bloc of American Jewish voters, just over three months before the US election.On a day rich in imagery, he paid his respects to veteran ...
Landmark deal signed to end Lebanon crisis
21 May '08 | Politics & Economics / News
... conflict, pulling their country away from the brink of a new civil war and paving the way for the election of a new president.Parliament will be convened on Sunday to elect army ... demand for veto power in cabinet.Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Syria, increased pressure on the ruling alliance this month ...
US-Islamic forum backs Obama
19 Feb '08 | Politics & Economics / News
... policy change irrespective of who captures the White House. Obama, who is vying to become the first black president of the US, won overwhelming support in a mock election by more than 200 American and Muslim delegates at the US-Islamic World Forum in the Qatari capital. His Democratic rival Hillary ...
AB.com's most popular stories of 2008
31 Dec '08 | Media & Marketing / News
... high-rise towers across Dubai after an earthquake tremor hit the UAE. The quake’s epicentre, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, was in southern Iran about 316km from Abu Dhabi, but strong tremors were felt in the UAE. The tremors were felt most strongly in the Northern Emirates with the aftershock ...
Oil rallies to top $53 on OPEC, stocks support
24 Nov '08 | Energy / News
... supply by 1 million barrels per day (bpd) at the emergency meeting in Cairo and make the cut take effect before the end of the year. The comments were echoed by Iran's OPEC governor, who said in remarks published on Monday that OPEC needed to reduce output further.OPEC has not called a full-blown ...
Thousands lose battle to become Comorans
27 Jul '08 | Politics & Economics / News
... .Known locally as "ayatollah", the turban-wearing Sambi studied Islam in Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Iran and often leads Friday prayers."I believe in an Islamic regime," Sambi said after his election, adding however that the union's economic situation -- it is ...
Mideast buckling under weight of inflation
10 Jun '08 | Politics & Economics / News
... union, while in Egypt, rising prices for food could see hunger on the rise. Iran this week reported that inflation hit 25 percent, ... .President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who faces an election next year, came to power in 2005 on a pledge to share Iran's oil wealth more fairly but has come under fire from ...
Hezbollah handed deadline to respond to proposals
20 May '08 | Politics & Economics / News
... 's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani spoke by telephone with officials in Iran and Syria, both countries which support Hezbollah, to try to help break the impasse, delegates said.Agreement on the election law and power sharing in cabinet - where the opposition has demanded a ...
Qatar pushes proposals to end Lebanon deadlock
19 May '08 | Politics & Economics / News
... . He expected answers from both camps later in the day. He had made specific proposals on the two main issues: the formation of a new government and a new election law. Agreement would pave the way for parliament to elect army commander General Michel Suleiman as president. The main sticking point ...
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