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With advocates of the BlackBerry considering it “groundbreaking,” other more conventional audiences envisage it as yet another nail in the coffin of tangible human contact. Meanwhile, here in the Middle East region and especially the Arabian Gulf area nowadays, BlackBerry is such a controversial issue, chiefly due to the area’s innate traditions and lack of adequate regulation on use of the device, from the point of view of the authorities.

Saudi Arabia has offered to mediate in a row between fellow Gulf states Qatar and Bahrain which has led to arrests of Bahrain-based fishermen by Qatar, a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) official said on Thursday. Analysts say tension has been high since Bahrain nominated Mohammad al-Mutawa, a former Bahraini information minister said to be disliked [...]

Bahrain has nominated Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani for GCC secretary-general’s post with effect from April 1, 2011, it was announced last night. The decision came in response to a letter His Majesty King Hamad received from Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. It was handed over by Saudi National Guard deputy [...]

Four Gulf nations entering the Middle East’s first monetary union pact are expected to peg their single currency to the US dollar in the first phase of the historic project but might opt for a basket later, according to analysts. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, members of the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), have [...]

KARACHI: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has given permission to 27 dignitaries of the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to set up hunting camps in 63 districts of all four provinces and hunt the protected and endangered bird, the houbara bustard. Last month, 10 licences were issued to Arab princes and sheikhs allowing them [...]

The UAE-Bahrain joint committee’s 6th meeting concluded today as UAE side was led by Foreign Minister H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, while his Bahraini counterpart H.E. Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa led his country’s side. In the meeting’s concluding speech, Sheikh Abdullah affirmed the two countries’ willingness to step up [...]

The Arab states of the Gulf region have agreed to launch a single currency modelled on the euro, hoping to blaze a trail towards a pan-Arab monetary union swelling to the ancient borders of the Ummayad Caliphate. “The Gulf monetary union pact has come into effect,” said Kuwait’s finance minister, Mustafa al-Shamali, speaking at a [...]

The Arab states of the Persian Gulf have agreed to launch a single currency modelled on the euro, hoping to blaze a trail towards a pan-Arab monetary union. ”The Gulf monetary union pact has come into effect,” said the Kuwaiti Finance Minister, Mustafa al-Shamali, speaking at a Gulf Co-operation Council summit meeting in Kuwait City. [...]

The Gulf Cooperation Council endorsed the appointment of Bahrain’s candidate as secretary general of the six-nation organization. Mohammed Al Mutawa, cultural affairs adviser to the Bahraini premier, was the Bahraini candidate. The new secretary general will replace Qatar’s Abdul Rahman al-Attiyah in 2011, when Attiyah’s term ends, according to the communiqué released today at the [...]

Arab states in the Gulf are opposed to any military action against neighbouring Muslim Iran over its nuclear programme, Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah said Tuesday. “We do not accept any military action against Iran,” Sheikh Mohammad said at the end of a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council. “Any tension in the region [...]