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The Kuwaiti government is planning to pass laws later this year to regulate the use of social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook. The move comes following a spate of controversies... 2012-04-26

Hundreds of Egyptians have staged a protest outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Cairo, demanding the release of an Egyptian human rights lawyer who has been detained in Saudi Arabia,... 2012-04-26

The UAE's minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, summoned the Iranian envoy to Abu Dhabi in mid-April to denounce Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the... 2012-04-25

Three new ministers have been appointed to Oman's cabinet in a royal decree announced by Sultan Qaboos bin Said on February 29. Dr. Abdul al-Hasni has been named the new Information... 2012-03-23

Former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh is refusing to leave Yemen unless his political, tribal and military rivals leave the country as well, according to an unidentified senior... 2012-03-22

The governments of Kuwait and Iraq have struck a US$500mn deal aimed at resolving the Gulf War debt of Iraq's flag carrier Iraqi Airways. Kuwait claimed it was owed US$1.2bn by Iraqi... 2012-03-22

Thousands of female students in the southern town of Abha boycotted classes on March 10, as part of a protest at the poor quality of services at the all-female King Khalid University.... 2012-03-22

Reporters Without Borders' (RWB) has added Bahrain to its annual list of 'enemies of the internet'. The campaign group adds name of the countries to its register of states that restrict... 2012-03-22

Tensions between the UAE and Egypt's new Muslim Brotherhood-led government appear to have increased following a statement by a Brotherhood spokesman claiming that the entire Muslim... 2012-03-22

Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi and some of his former employees were accused by a judicial panel of being linked to at least 150 attacks in which Shi'a Muslims were killed between... 2012-02-24