Carter Embarrasses America

Yet Again

Hamas offers 10-year truce
Gulf Daily News

DAMASCUS: Hamas says the Palestinian militant group offers Israel a 10-year "hudna," or truce, as an implicit recognition of Israel, if it withdraws from lands it seized in 1967. Hamas accepts the establishment of a Palestinian state on land occupied by Israel in 1967 but would not recognise the Jewish state,

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said yesterday. Hamas would accept a deal creating a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip if it was approved by Palestinians in a vote, former US president Jimmy Carter said yesterday.

Crackdown on drivers

MANAMA: Bail ranging from BD100 to BD300 is being imposed on traffic violators reported our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej. Other options include 48-hour police custody and revoking driving licences, General Traffic deputy director general Shaikh Abdulrahman bin Sabah Al Khalifa yesterday said. He also revealed that parents of young violators were being summoned and updated on their children's flouting of traffic rules and regulations.

Cyst op successful

Manama: A medical team at Sulmaniya Medical Centre (SMC) performed a successful complex brain surgery. They removed a cyst blocking the nerves leading to the brain from a 40-year-old female patient. SMC Brain surgeon and Neurologist Dr Taha Al Durazi told our sister paper Akhbar Al Khaleej that the patient was suffering from headaches for more than ten years.

Diplomatic ties broken

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia broke off diplomatic relations with Qatar yesterday, saying it has become "a major source of instability in the Horn of Africa". "Qatar has left no stone unturned to cause harm to Ethiopia's national security," the Foreign Ministry said.