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Bahrain : His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, today issued Edict (68) of 2021, designating the Minister of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning, as the Minister responsible for the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) before the Legislative Authority. The Minister of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning and the relevant authorities, each in their own capacity, shall implement the provisions of this edict, which takes immediate effect, and will be published in the Official Gazette.

South Africa : Born in 1931, Tutu was ordained in 1961 and made history when he became Johannesburg’s first black Anglican dean in 1975. He became archbishop, one of the highest offices in the Christian church, in 1986. He was a Nobel Prize laureate, along with A NUMBER of the other figureheads of the movement such as former presidents Nelson Mandela and FW De Klerk, all part of a generation of “outstanding South Africans who bequeathed a liberated South Africa”, according to current President Cyril Ramaphosa, speaking after the news of Tutu’s passing.

Bahrain : A total of 560 Bahrain job seekers holding various qualifications had been employed in 342 private companies and institutions on December 19-25, the Labor and Social Development Ministry has revealed, adding that 347 had benefited from various training programs during the same period. The ministry indicated that 25,702 national job seekers have been employed so far in 6,702 institutions, out of the 25,000 targeted in the second edition of the National Employment Program in 2021 and the number of those who have received training has reached 12,488 to date, exceeding the 10,000 target for this year.

China has replaced Chen Quanguo, who as Communist Party chief in the Xinjiang region oversaw a security crackdown targeting ethnic Uyghurs and other Muslims in the name of fighting religious extremism. Chen, in his post since 2016, will move to another role and Ma Xingrui, governor of the coastal economic powerhouse Guangdong province since 2017, has replaced him, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Saturday. It gave no other details. United Nations researchers and human rights activists estimate more than one million Muslims have been detained in camps in western China’s Xinjiang region. China rejects accusations of abuse, describing…

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule died on Sunday at the age of 90, the presidency said. In 1984 Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent opposition to apartheid. A decade later, he witnessed the ends of that regime and he chaired a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up to unearth atrocities committed during those dark days. The outspoken Tutu was considered the nation’s conscience by both Black and white, an enduring testament to his faith and spirit of reconciliation in a divided nation. He was diagnosed with…

Bahrain : Minister of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning, Essam bin Abdulla Khalaf, said that this year’s Bahraini Farmers’ Market celebrates healthy diets as a source of sustainability, hence the Market’s theme “Our Food… Our Health”. The minister was speaking while inaugurating the ninth edition of the Bahraini Farmers’ Market, in the presence of the Undersecretary for Agriculture and Marine Resources at the Work Ministry, Ibrahim Al-Hawaj, Secretary-General of the National Initiative for Agricultural Development (NIAD), Shaikha Maram bint Isa Al Khalifa, and a number of officials. Held at the Budaiya Botanical Garden, the ninth edition of the Market…

India :  India will start vaccinating children between the ages of 15 to 18 from January 3 next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in a sudden address to the nation tonight. Healthcare and frontline workers will be provided with “precautionary doses” from January 10 next year, he added. People above 60 years of age who have co-morbidities will also have the option to take the booster dose on a recommendation from doctors. This will also start from January 10. As Omicron cases rise in the country, and around the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced that vaccination for…

A man armed with a weapon was arrested in the grounds of Windsor Castle as Queen Elizabeth II celebrated Christmas there. Thames Valley police said the security breach took place at 8.30am on Saturday. “The man has been arrested on suspicion of breach or trespass of a protected site and possession of an offensive weapon. He remains in custody at this time,” Thames Valley Police Supt Rebecca Mears said. “We can confirm security processes were triggered within moments of the man entering the grounds and he did not enter any buildings.” Police said the man, 19, is in custody and…

London : Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II poignantly reflected on a year of personal grief in her Christmas Day message, saying there was “one familiar laugh missing” as she acknowledged the death of her husband amid the continuing impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The monarch, in what is likely to be regarded as her most fulsome public tribute to her “beloved Philip” since he died in April, remarked how his “mischievous, enquiring twinkle was as bright at the end as when I first set eyes on him,” as she empathised with families who had lost loved ones this year. She also…

Las Vegas :  Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Friday it will not participate in person at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2022 in Las Vegas, joining a list of companies opting not to have a physical presence at next month’s event on concerns over the rapid spread of the Omicron COVID-19 variant. The U.S. software giant added that it will continue to participate at CES remotely, according to an emailed statement. The Verge was the first to report on Friday that Microsoft will not participate physically AT CES, Reuters reported. Several other companies including U.S. automaker General Motors Co (GM.N),…