LONDON: A German man has been arrested at the Munich International Airport after customs officials discovered 49 live lizards in his bag, which he said were to be cooked and eaten. Striking anger in animal rights groups in the country, the man, identified as a 28-year-old returning from Oman, offered to bit the head off [...]
CAIRO: Saudi’s benchmark has ended its daily session Tuesday slumping, as the petrochems sector dipped amid investors booking gains for 1st Q of 2012. TADWL, the main index fell 0.2 percent to close at 7545 points, closing lower for a second session in three as investors book profits. Heavyweight Al Rajhi Bank adds 0.6 percent; and [...]
CAIRO: Gulf bourses ended their weekly sessions in mixed zone, as investors await for earnings results, to book recent gains. Dubai ‘s benchmark fell 0.5 percent to close at 1652 points, as lots of investors are waiting for bellwether Emaar Properties to post first quarter earnings, expected on Sunday. Capita’s Abu Dhabi’ benchmark declined 0.2 [...]
DUBAI: Oman police said they have arrested 35 men and women who work at health clubs in the northern Batinah town of Sohar on charges of profiting from sex work. Media reports quoted a Oman police spokesman as saying the accused, “all from Asian countries,” had been arrested “for immoral behavior after a raid conducted [...]
CAIRO: A new report from the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development reported they had commissioned a new feasibility study for the North Africa and Middle East region on the logistics of developing and establishing a single energy market that could go from Morocco to Oman. The announcement has investors and observers excited about [...]
DUBAI: A senior Iranian energy ministry official told reporters that the country is to export some $2 billion of electricity to Gulf countries United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman. The exports will occur once a new gas field in the Arabian Gulf is operation, the official was quoted by Tehran Times as saying. According to [...]
DUBAI: The Omani government reported that it had arrested over 70 people in an illegal workers raid in the capital Muscat on Wednesday. Police said it was part of a crackdown ordered by the government. A joint team of the Royal Oman Police (ROP) and Manpower Ministry raided a residential area in Seeb district of [...]
CAIRO: A security guard at a college in Miri, Oman was arrested for allegedly raping a young girl last Friday. The 18-year-old university student said that the man attacked and raped her in the changing room of the private college’s gym in the early hours of Friday morning. Miri police chief Jamaluddin Ibrahim confirmed to [...]
CAIRO: An Italian tanker was hijacked on Tuesday by suspected Somali pirates off the coast of Oman, Italia media reported. The vessel was identified as the Enrico Ievoli, belonging to a Naples-based shipping company, Marnavi, the ANSA news agency said. Some six Italian nationals were believed to be aboard the tanker, according to television news [...]
DUBAI: As a tightening crackdown on illegal immigrants in Oman continues, the country’s police reportedly foiled a human trafficking attempt and arrested 13 people without residency papers. “Working on a tip-off we have arrested two people who were trying to smuggle six women into the country,” a spokesperson for the police told gulfnews.com. The 6 [...]
DUBAI: A team of archaeologists working in Oman have discovered one of the first modern human populations to have migrated out of Africa. The research, conducted by an international team in the Dhofar Mountains of southern Oman, gives new light to the earliest civilizations in the world. The research was published in the open-source journal [...]
At least five Indians died and another 9 sailors are missing after their ship sank off the coast of Oman on Saturday evening. Local media reported early Sunday that the vessel, the MSV Shiv Sagar MNV 2169, had been near the Dhofar region late Saturday. Rescuers were able to find 6 stranded sailors and the Omani [...]
Starting as a disturbance in the Arabian Sea, Cyclone Kelia moved across the Omani coast. By Tuesday, Kelia was just off shore. Rain and other affiliated affects from the cyclone could be felt from Salalah to Muscat and even to bits of Iran which is 950 kilometers northeast. On Monday, the Joint Typhoon Warning [...]
Haya Water has announced that it will be a sponsor of the Oman Investment Forum 2011 in October that has attracted Government decision makers and private sector executives to debate the excellent and growing number investment and business opportunities in the Sultanate’s rapidly growing projects market. The company, which is currently engaged in the development [...]
DUBAI: Oman announced on Sunday that it would hold elections on October 15. The election is expected to field more than 1,000 candidates, including at least 77 women, who will battle for consultative council positions, the deputy interior minister said. According to Mohamed al-Bousaidi, a total of 1,133 candidates are expected to vie for seats [...]
The Omani authorities must immediately drop the case against two newspaper journalists sentenced to five months in prison for “insulting” the country’s justice minister, Amnesty International said on Thursday. A court in the capital Muscat also ordered the closure of Yusuf al-Haj and Ibrahim al-Maamary’s newspaper, Azzamn, for one month. “The ruling is a blow [...]
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) condemned the ongoing custody of the two activists who are being held in the prisons of the Omani capital Muscat, at a press conference on Tuesday. The two activists, Ammar Al-Hanai and Ibrahim Al-Balushi, were imprisoned for their involvement in pro-democracy and reform demonstrations. According to the [...]
CAIRO: The Oman government is putting their efforts toward assisting in brokering a deal with the Iranian government that would see two American hikers imprisoned released, news reports have said. It isn’t too surprising, however, as Oman paid half a million dollars in 2010 to help free another American Sarah Shourd, who with her fiance [...]
CAIRO: Al-Azhar’s Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb on Thursday called on the Arab region to strengthen their unity and relationship on regional affairs, likening regional consensus to the European Union. Tayeb said Arab leaders should support and assist the Palestinians in their quest for statehood at the United Nations later this month. Tayeb made the comments [...]
Thailand easily defeated Oman on Tuesday 3-0, avenging a 2010 loss to the Arab country in the same stage of World Cup qualifying. The victory positions Thailand to earn a spot in the final qualifying round, after they nearly upset Australia over the weekend. The victory eased some of the pain of a 2-1 loss [...]
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