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Video: 10 injured after man falsely claims bomb on plane - Khaleej Times
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Police say 10 passengers on an Indonesian flight preparing to take off from Borneo island were injured, mostly with broken bones and head wounds, after a man falsely said there was a bomb on board.

Police spokesman Nanang Purnomo said other passengers overheard the 26-year-old man, Frantinus Nirigi, telling a flight attendant there was a bomb on the Lion Air plane, which was carrying 189 passengers to Jakarta on Monday night.

Purnomo said another passenger broke the emergency exit windows. He and Nirigi were arrested.

Video online showed dozens of people standing on the Boeing 737’s right wing. Some slid down the right engine and landed on the tarmac.

Purnomo said eight passengers had broken bones and head wounds. Two had minor injuries.

He said an inspection found no bomb.

Khaleej Times - 25 April, 2016

Yemeni and UAE troops advanced into the southern port city of Mukalla on Sunday, officials and residents said, entering a stronghold of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni wing for the first time in over a year of war.

Fighter jets from the mostly Gulf Arab alliance pounded the city on Sunday and killed 30 militants, residents said, as the military coalition ramped up an offensive to wrest swathes of southern Yemen from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

Mukalla has been the centre of a rich mini-state that Al Qaeda built up over the past year as it took control of an almost 600km band of Arabian Sea coastline and pocketed customs revenues from the port.

Losing Mukalla would take away the AQAP’s main source of revenue, which has enabled it to thrive for over a year, but the alliance offensive appeared too strong for it to withstand.

“The liberation of Mukalla from the hands of the Al Qaeda terrorist organisation has begun,” local governor Ahmed Saeed bin Breik said in a statement.

Khaleej Times - 21 August, 2014

A Kuwaiti, Hajjaj bin Fahd Al-Ajmi, considered a financier of Al-Nusra Front, a Syrian rebel group linked to Al-Qaeda, was arrested yesterday on his return from a visit to Qatar, activists said.

They said on Twitter that Ajmi, 26, was arrested at Kuwait airport.

The UN Security Council last Friday placed Ajmi and five other Islamists on an Al-Qaeda sanctions list, imposing a travel ban and assets freeze. They are accused of providing money, fighters and weapons to extremist groups.

In early August, the United States also imposed sanctions on Ajmi and two other Kuwaitis for allegedly raising money for Al-Nusra Front.

Khaleej Times - 09 July, 2014

Ministry of Foreign Affairs says Bahrain has the full sovereign right to take any measures it deems suitable to prevent foreign connections to present false and distorting information about Bahrain.

The UAE on Tuesday expressed its support for sovereign decisions taken by the Kingdom of Bahrain to ensure respect of foreign officials, visitors and diplomatic missions for diplomatic norms in regards to their contacts with local civil society segments and non-governmental organisations.

“Bahrain has the full sovereign right to take any measures it deems suitable to prevent promotion, through these contacts, of internal group that justify, instigate and commit violence and use their foreign connections to present false and distorting information about Bahrain,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Tuesday.

Tape of alleged conversation between Gaddafi and ex-Qatari Amir leaked
Khaleej Times - 06 May, 2014
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The recordings are presumed to be from after 2008, since an Arab League meeting the recording referred to was held in Damascus that year.

The conversation between the two ex-leaders instigates public opinion against the ruling family of Saudi Arabia.

A leaked tape of an alleged conversation between Ex Qatari Amir Shaikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and deposed Libyan President late Muamar Al Gaddafi took the social networking site Twitter by storm.

The tape has been leaked in a Twitter page bearing the name of the media office of Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, who has been residing in Geneva since 1992, and was the then minister of finance and petroleum of Qatar.

The conversation saw the two ex-leaders instigating public opinion against the ruling family of Saudi Arabia. The two former leaders said in the alleged conversation that there will not be Saudi Arabia anymore after 12 years.

Oman extends curbs on expat workers

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Khaleej Times - 16 April, 2014

Hiring of expatriates by private companies in those two sectors will be banned for six months from May 4, the official Oman News Agency quoted minister.

Oman said it would extend curbs on the hiring of foreign workers in construction and housekeeping as part of efforts to save more jobs for local citizens and limit outflows of money from the economy.

Bahrain to cancel work permits of fee defaulters - Khaleej Times
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Bahrain to cancel work permits of fee defaulters

Our Correspondent / 3 February 2014

Bahrain’s Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) has warned of cancelling work permits issued to establishments that have not paid the monthly fees.

According to the law, organisations and sponsors have to pay monthly fee for each expatriate worker to the LMRA. The amount is allocated for training for local manpower.

LMRA’s Vice-President of Operations Ali Alkohiji stated on Saturday that the authority has been in touch with employers since last year through written and electronic communication, highlighting the importance of settling the monthly fees on time, and emphasising the ramifications of delinquency.

He said: “We are giving a one-month public notice, at the beginning of March 2014 the LMRA will cancel all valid visas for employers who did not pay the monthly fees.” He added that all administrative and technical preparations have been made.

He revealed that once the work permits were revoked, it is illegal for these workers to continue working, and that legal actions will be taken in case inspectors find them on site. He also clarified that the process is irreversible, and that if the employers wish to rectify it after work permits were revoked, they are required to reapply for the same workers and pay issuance fee for a new period of two years in addition to paying the late fees.

La situation se durcit, entre le gouvernement, maître de la danse, des institutions, du dialogue et des élections et l’opposition qui refuse de se prêter à cette chorégraphie finement orchestrée pour ne pas remettre en cause les bases de la répartition du pouvoir.

Bahrain oppn warned over calls to subvert polls

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Khaleej Times - 13 May, 2013

Bahrain has warned against calls to subvert the coming legislative elections, scheduled to be held in 2014.

“Incitement to violence and chaos, reminiscent of the February 2011 unrest, to derail the forthcoming fourth legislative term polls would be deterred with the force of the law,” Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowments Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa said on Saturday.

He was responding to a call by Al Wefaq Society secretary-general Shaikh Ali Salman, who while addressing an event held at a worshipping venue in Samaheej, asked for escalation of protests in the run-up to the legislative elections.

He criticised the stance which came as the National Dialogue process is in full swing which aims to evolve consensus regarding Bahrain’s political development.

The minister slammed the crisis-mongering statements which he said were not only contravened the culture of dialogue and democratic values but were also against the nation-building will, and reproduced the violence-inciting mantra with the aim of aborting the 2014 legislative elections.

Citing the decree-law 14 for 2002 on exercising political rights, the minister warned that any violator convicted of attempting to disrupt a referendum or the election by force, intimidation or protesting would be sentenced to a maximum six months in jail and or fine of BD500.

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