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Manama, March. 10 (BNA) The Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Government of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland signed an agreement on avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion in respect of taxes imposed on income and capital gains.

Manama, March 9 (BNA) Bahraini Fawzia Saleh Shihab will be representing the governments group while Afnan Rashid Al Zayani the businesswomen group after winning seats in the Arab Labour Organization (ALO)'s Women Labour Affairs Committee, it was announced at the Arab Labour Conference which is being hosted in Manama from March 6 to 13 under the auspices of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

Mogadishu, March 4 (BNA) Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed demanded the international community to help his government put an end to surging piracy off the coasts of his country expressing at the same time readiness to negotiate with armed movements to stop bloodshed in Somalia.

Manila, March. 2 (BNA) A magnitude 6.1 quake stroke the northern Philippines Tuesday, government sesismologists were quoted by AFP as saying.

Al Khalil, Feb. 25. (BNA) – Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) today wounded a number of Palestinians who were demonstrating to complain about the Israeli Government's decision to designate the Ibrahimi Mosque as an Israeli heritage site.

Manama, Feb. 25 (BNA) His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa issued decision No. 13 for the year 2010 entry into force of provisions of Act No. 13 of 1975 on the organization of pension and gratuities for government employees to the staff of the Public Authority for Social Insurance.

Manama, Feb. 24. (BNA) – The Works Minister and the Minister in Charge of Electricity and Water Authority Fahmi bin Ali Al Jodar today affirmed that the building of the King Hamad General Hospital(KHGH) is 98.5 pc complete thanks to joint efforts of all concerned sides to finalise this project, which is the most important governmental health project over the past years.

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Manama, Feb. 24 (BNA) His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa will patronise the Fourth GCC Islamic Conference of Charity which is organized by the Islamic Society under the theme" charity for all" on 2nd to 4th of March. The conference will discuss a number of issues related to charity work at GCC states ,and governmental role in this regard, the relationship of private sector banks including Islamic banks associated with charitable work and how to profit from it and also how to benefit from the emails, and the massive developments in media in strengthening the charitable work, and ways to create partnerships between the public and the private sector.