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Bangkok : Bahraini Ambassador to Thailand, Muna Abbas Mahmood Radhi, affirmed that marking the Bahraini Women’s Day on December 1 every year is an opportunity to highlight the achievements and contributions of Bahraini women to national development. In a statement published by Expat Life and Elite Plus magazine, which is published in Thailand, the ambassador said that allocating a national day for Bahraini women came at an initiative fourteen years ago by Her Royal Highness Princess Sabeeka bint Ibrahim Al Khalifa, Consort of His Majesty the King and President of the Supreme Council for Women, in conjunction with the 80th…

Manama : Public Health Director Dr. Najat Abul Fateh urged the public to take the developed Pfizer-BioNTech as a booster dose, in order to prevent Covid-19 and new mutants, including Omicron, and their serious complications. In a statement today, Dr. Abul Fateh noted the availability of the developed Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for all citizens and residents in health centers. She urged targeted people to take the booster dose to protect themselves and those around them, especially those aged 12 years and above. The National Medical Taskforce for Combating COVID-19 had announced that as of Sunday, December 4, 2022, all COVID-19 related…

Manama :  The Muharraq Nights Festival has  opened officially this evening in Muharraq’s historic old quarter, The event is being co-organized by the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities and the Shaikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Center for Culture and Research as part of the Pearling Path project. The festival features a wide variety of events at numerous venues across the city on the weekends of the first two weeks of the month (December 1-3 and December 8-10) between 05:00 p.m. and 09:00 p.m. Bahrain Authotity for Culture and Antiquities (BACA) President Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed bin Abdulla Al…

Manama : The Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) and the Bahrain Basketball Association (BBA) signed an agreement with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) under which Bahrain will host the FIBA Mid-Term Congress and the FIBA Hall of Fame ceremony to honour basketball stars in 2025. BOC Deputy President, HH Shaikh Isa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, FIBA Secretary-General, Andreas Zagklis, and BBA President, Waleed Al-Alawi, signed the agreement. Tourism Minister, Fatima bint Jaafar Al-Sairafi, Chief Executive Officer of the General Sports Authority, Dr. Abdulrahman Askar, and BOC Secretary-General, Fares Al-Kooheji, attended the signing ceremony. The initiative, initiated by BOC, will…

Manama : The National Institution for Human Rights Chairman Ali Ahmed Al Derazi participated in the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) meeting. The meeting reviewed the institution’s report submitted to the committee on the Kingdom’s progress in implementing the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The committee praised NIHR for its efforts in eliminating all forms of discrimination, and implementing the recommendations to improve the application of the best international practices in the field of human rights.

Manama : The Minister of Tourism, Fatima bint Jaafar Al-Sairafi, highlighted that Exhibition World Bahrain (EWB) has successfully hosted its first three exhibitions concurrently from November 22 to 26. Al-Sairafi affirmed the Ministry’s commitment to support the exhibitions and conventions industry as part of the set objectives of the Tourism Strategy (2022-2026). She stressed that the recent inauguration of Exhibition World Bahrain (EWB), the largest convention centre in the region, will work towards achieving that objective. The Minister affirmed that EWB will enhance the role of the tourism sector, and the Ministry of Tourism will continue to explore innovative, qualitative,…

New York : U.S. markets are flat ahead of a highly anticipated speech by the chair of the Federal Reserve that may give clues about future interest rate hikes. On the last trading day of the month, futures for the Dow Jones industrials and the S&P 500 appeared static. Major U.S. indices are clinging to small gains in November, which if they hold, would be the second straight month of advances after a miserable September. There is hope on Wall Street that the Fed will slow the scale and pace of its interest rate hikes and investors are closely watching…

Abu Dhabi : Interior Minister, General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, visited the United Arab Emirates. He met the UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Lt. General HH Shaikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The visit was part of brotherly ties and cooperation between the two countries. HE the Interior Minister congratulated the UAE and its leadership and citizens on the National Day, hailing the process of prosperity and progress witnessed by the UAE. He also valued strong ties between the two brotherly countries thanks to the care and support of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa…

Pakistan :  Four people were killed and more than 20 wounded in a suicide bombing in south-west Pakistan on Wednesday, two days after Pakistani Taliban called on its fighters to launch attacks across the country. A child was among the victims of the attack targeting a police patrol in Quetta, spokesman Abdul Haq. At least 15 police officers were among those wounded in the explosion, confirmed by Mr Haq to be a suicide bombing, as police prepared to escort a polio vaccination team in the provincial capital of Balochistan province. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have claimed responsibility for the attack, which they said…

Beijing : China launched a rocket Tuesday carrying three astronauts to complete construction of the country’s permanent orbiting space station. The crew of the Shenzhou-15 will overlap for several days with the 3-member crew already onboard the Tiangong station, who will then return to Earth after their six-month mission. Their spaceship blasted off atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert at 11:08 p.m. Tuesday. The six-month mission, commanded by Fei Junlong and crewed by Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu, will be the last in the construction phase of…