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Manama : Gulf Air announced some of its favorite beach destinations for the 2023 summer. The airline added the new route of Goa to its expanding network, which increases the number of Indian destinations on the airline’s network to nine. The airline is scheduling four weekly flights starting March 27 to Goa, and two weekly flights starting June 3 until September 13 to Alexandria and Sharm El Sheikh. Gulf Air will also arrange two weekly flights from June 1 until September 30 to Mykonos, two weekly flights to Nice from June 1 to September 28, and three weekly flights to…

DAVOS :  Spain’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that Madrid and London were closing in on a deal to find a definitive solution settling the post-Brexit status of Gibraltar. The status of Gibraltar and how to police the border with Spain has been a point of contention since Britain’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union. The peninsula was excluded from the exit deal reached between Britain and the EU. “I see a constructive spirit from the British side on the agreement related to Gibraltar,” Spain’s Foreign Affairs Minister Jose Manuel Albares told  in an interview on the sidelines of…

Ukraine : The final death toll from a weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building in southeastern Ukraine reached 45, officials said Tuesday, as the body of another child was pulled from the wreckage. The strike in the city of Dnipro was the war’s deadliest attack since the spring on civilians at one location. Those killed in the Saturday afternoon strike included five children, and 79 people were injured, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian president’s office. The final toll included two dozen people initially listed as missing at the multistory building, which housed about 1,700, he said.…

A world divided into two trading blocs will result in 5 per cent shrinkage in the global economy over the long term, which is more than the world economy lost during the financial crisis, director general of the World Trade Organisation said in Davos. Nations in emerging markets and developing countries stand to lose more with fragmentations and decoupling of trade, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told the World Economic Forum on Tuesday. Nations in emerging markets and developing countries stand to lose more with fragmentations and decoupling of trade, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told the World Economic Forum on Tuesday. “One thing we cannot do if we want growth is…

A man who fled a luxury Delhi hotel after amassing more than 2.3 million rupees ($28,000) in unpaid bills during a four-month stay is wanted by police. The scammer, who gave his name as Mohammed Sharif, is also said to have stolen silverware and pearls from the Leela Palace hotel. The man claimed to be a UAE resident and said he worked for a prominent family in the Emirates, the hotel said. He produced a business card, a UAE resident card and other documents and routinely chatted to hotel staff about his apparent life in the Emirates, the hotel said in its…

China has fewer people than at the start of 2022, the first decline in population since 1961. Official figures from China’s National Bureau of Statistics released on Tuesday showed mainland China had 850,000 fewer people at the end of 2022 than the previous year. More than a million fewer babies were born last year and 300,000 more people died. China’s population now stands at 1.41 billion. The bureau reported 9.56 million births in 2022, compared to 10.62 million in 2021. Deaths rose from 10.14 million to 10.41 million. It was not immediately clear if the population figures were affected by the Covid-19…

Manama :  The Public Prosecution is planning to use artificial intelligence technology to speed up work and achievements. The establishment of an electronic system supported by a legal database that includes criminal legislation, judicial rulings, instructions and regulatory decisions of the Public Prosecution will assist with carrying tasks, Attorney General Ali bin Fadl Al Buainain said at a press conference. The database will include information related to cases in terms of the crime nature and type, personal information about the accused, including marital status, criminal record, and the subject matter of requests submitted by the concerned parties to the Public…

Manama :  Board Chairman of the General Sports Authority (GSA) His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa issued edict (3) for 2023 restructuring the Board of Directors of Bahrain School and Collegiate Athletic Association As per the new edict, the association shall be chaired by Shaikh Dr. Saqer bin Salman Al Khalifa and feature in its board membership Shaikh Khalid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Mohammed Rashid Al-Shehi, Suheer Ismail Asfoor, Nader Jalal Al Awadhi, Sukaina Ahmed Marhoun, Mohammed Ahmed Al Zayani, Mohammed Younis Gholoum, Hessa Adel Al Mennai and Mai Mohsin Al Hajji.

Manama : The Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) and the Nationality, Passports and Residence Affairs (NPRA) at the Ministry of Interior announced the deportation of 5,300 workers who violated residency laws, in the period from October to December 2022. In this regard, LMRA announced that during the same period, more than 7,153 inspection campaigns and visits were conducted, where 731 criminal violations were referred to the Public Prosecution, including 257 violations committed by employers, and 474 by workers. LMRA noted that in the same period it referred 62 forced labour cases to the Public Prosecution. The total penalties collected from…

Istanbul :  A delegation from Government Hospitals, led by CEO Dr. Ahmed Mohammed Al-Ansari, paid a visit to the D.med Healthcare in the Republic of Türkiye. Dr. Al-Annsari stressed the importance of broadening the Bahraini-Turkish cooperation in the health sector to achieve the forecast aspirations. During the visit, ways to bolster cooperation between Bahrain’s Government Hospitals and the D.med Healthcare institution in friendly Türkiye, as well as topics related to the level of health services were discussed. He pointed out that among the development projects of top priority at the Salmaniya Medical Complex is to improve the level of services…