Author: News Desk

Bahrain : The Weekly Majlis hosted by the Capital Governorate hailed the new package of labour market reforms which wereordered by His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister to increase protections for expatriate workers and  build on Bahrain’s Tier-1 Status in US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report. This came as Capital Governor Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulrahman Al Khalifa received, in the presence of Deputy Governor Hassan Abdulla Al Madani and other officials, dignitaries and citizens. Under HRH the Crown Prince and Minister’s order, new labour registration centres and an online registration…

Bahrain :  HM the King’s Personal Representative for Humanitarian Work and Youth Affairs, His Highness Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, has extended sincere thanks and appreciation to His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, for receiving him after winning the title of the FEI World Endurance Championship for eight-year-old horses in Spain, outclassing 57 elite riders representing 20 countries in the 120km race. In this regard, HH Shaikh Nasser said: “We are inspired by all the values of giving and dedication from HM King Hamad, the First Knight, in order to lift the name and flag of Bahrain…

FORT LAUDERDALE : It’s possible Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz talked himself into a death sentence. Prosecutors played video last week at Cruz’s penalty trial of jailhouse interviews he did this year with two of their mental health experts. In frank and sometimes graphic detail, he answered their questions about his massacre of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018 — his planning, his motivation, the shootings. While it can’t be known what the 12 jurors are thinking, if any are wavering between voting for death or life without parole, his statements to Dr. Charles Scott, a forensic psychiatrist, and Robert Denney, a neuropsychologist,…

PARIS :  Nicolas Toulliou had just proposed marriage to his girlfriend. Nelson Marinho Jr. was heading off on a new oil exploration job. Eric Lamy was about to celebrate his 38th birthday. They were among 228 people killed in 2009 when their storm-tossed Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris slammed into the Atlantic. After more than a decade of legal battles, their families at last have a chance at justice. Aviation industry heavyweights Airbus and Air France are charged with manslaughter in a trial that opens Monday over the crash of Flight 447 on June 1, 2009. The worst…

JERUSALEM:  Israeli police arrested at least three Palestinian suspects Sunday in connection with a deadly shooting at a Jerusalem checkpoint, as security forces searched for the suspected gunman. The shooter opened fire on a military checkpoint in east Jerusalem late Saturday, killing a female Israeli soldier and wounding three other soldiers, one of them seriously. The Israeli military identified the soldier as 18-year-old Noa Lazar. It was the latest bloodshed in the deadliest violence in the region in seven years. It also came less than a day before Israel was to begin celebrating the weeklong Sukkot holiday, a time when…

ZAPORIZHZHIA :  A Russian missile barrage that crumbled apartment buildings and houses in Ukraine’s city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least 17 people and wounded dozens, Ukrainian officials said Sunday as Moscow strained to enforce its takeover of illegally annexed territory. The blasts that collapsed at least one high-rise residential building and blew out the windows of others came from six missiles launched in Russian-occupied areas of the Zaporizhzhia region, the Ukrainian air force said. The region is one of four Russia claimed as its own this month, but the regional capital remains under Ukrainian control. The multiple strikes came after an explosion…

Bahrain : Held in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism, the Information and eGovernment Authority (iGA) delivered a workshop on improving the mechanisms behind gathering tourism statistics in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Over 20 government and tourism experts were in attendance. iGA Director of Economic Statistics, Noora Khamis Al-Saadoon said that the workshop, which reflects the strong partnership between the iGA and the Ministry, is part of ongoing efforts towards improving the tourism sector, one of the most important contributors to the Kingdom’s national economy. Starting in 2015, Bahrain’s tourism statistics have been digitized as part of a multi-phased strategy…

Uthai Sawan : Paweenuch Supholwong sits on her mother’s lap and fidgets with her pigtails as her mother tells the remarkable story of how the 3-year-old wisp of a girl survived Thailand’s worst mass killing — the only child to emerge unscathed from a day care after a former police officer massacred preschoolers while they napped, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Two dozen children were among the 36 people shot and slashed to death in an attack that shattered the serenity of the rural township of Uthai Sawan, robbing the small farming community of much of its youngest generation in…

Tokyo : Japanese Trade Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Sunday that the Sakhalin 1 oil and gas project in Russia is very important for Tokyo to ensure its diversified crude oil procurement. According to Reuters, the comment came after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Friday that establishes a new operator for the project in Russia’s Far East. Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) holds a 30% operator stake in Sakhalin-1, with Russian company Rosneft (ROSN.MM), India’s ONGC Videsh (ONVI.NS) and Japan’s SODECO as partners. Asked if Japan intends to keep its stake, Nishimura said, “From the standpoint of diversifying…

BERLIN : A train communications system in Germany was targeted by sabotage Saturday, forcing both passenger and cargo trains to halt for nearly three hours across the northwest of the country, authorities said. Operator Deutsche Bahn said early Saturday that no long-distance or regional trains were running in the states of Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Bremen. That also affected trains between Berlin and Cologne, neither of which was directly affected by the system failure, and between Berlin and Amsterdam, while trains from Denmark weren’t crossing the border into Germany. The sabotage hit a primary mode of regional and intercity…