An official at the Qatar Chamber of Commerce has said that any goods originating in the countries currently boycotting the Gulf State will be rejected by the private sector, Khaleej Online has reported. This would be the case even if they are shipped via another country, said the unnamed official,[…]
Qatar’s financial markets stabilised on Monday after a week of losses as the government showed it could keep the economy running in the face of sanctions by its neighbours. The finance minister of the world’s richest country per capita played down the economic toll of the confrontation, and said the[…]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) threatened to impose an economic embargo against Qatar while Bahrain said “any options” were on the table as the crisis in the Gulf showed no signs of abating on Thursday. The tough talk from the Gulf Cooperation Council members came on Wednesday despite efforts by[…]
By Yaseen Kippie The reasons behind the severance of ties between a number of Arab states with Qatar are somewhat complex, but what we do know is that this will have a major impact on the future of power in the Middle East. More than six countries, including Saudi Arabia,[…]
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain say they are severing diplomatic relations with Qatar. The Saudi kingdom made the announcement via its state-run Saudi Press Agency early on Monday, saying it was taking action for what it called the protection of national security. The news agency released[…]
A decision on the future of Israeli football clubs based in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank has been postponed once again after a member vote at the FIFA Congress in Bahrain. The Palestine Football Association (PFA) argued that the presence of six Israeli football clubs playing inside settlements,[…]
A defence lawyer for four US journalists who were arrested in Bahrain says they are heading to the airport to fly out of the country. Mohammed al-Jishi told The Associated Press that the journalists had left a police station and were on their way to the airport to fly out[…]
Bahrain says it is severing its diplomatic ties with Iran and has called upon Iranian diplomats to leave the country within 48 hours. Isa al-Hamadi, the Bahraini minister of media affairs, made the announcement on Monday amid heightened tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, after Saturday’s attack on the Saudi[…]
Human rights organisations have reacted with alarm to the Bahraini royal Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa becoming the new favourite to succeed Sepp Blatter as Fifa president, citing his family’s role in the brutal suppression of the country’s pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011. Sheikh Salman, the Asian Football Confederation president, is[…]
A bomb attack killed two Bahraini policemen on duty in the mainly Shi’ite village of Sitra, south of the capital Manama, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday, days after the government said it had disrupted an arms smuggling plot linked to Iran. “A terrorist bombing targeted policemen on duty in[…]
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