Saudi diplomat shot dead in restive Yemen

Source: Arab News (Read full story)

Gunmen shot dead a Saudi Arabian diplomat and his bodyguard in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on Wednesday, Yemeni officials and diplomatic sources said. A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Riyadh identified the victim as Khaled Shubaikan Al-Anazi, the Kingdom’s assistant military attache in Sanaa. The spokesman said Al-Anazi was shot dead along with his Yemeni bodyguard as they were going out of his residence. Nobody so far has claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place in Sanaa’s southern district of Hada, where embassies and diplomats’ residences are located.

…

Special precautions during elections

Source: Kuwait Times (Read full story)

The Ministry of Interior drew up a comprehensive plan to secure parliamentary elections due on December 1 and personnel would stationed at the electoral stations round the clock to ensure order, a ranking MoI official announced yesterday. Maj Gen Abdul Fattah Al-Ali, the chief of the electoral security command, the fourth constituency, said in a statement that the ministry, in coordination with other authorities, would provide facilities for the elderly, the sick and citizens of special needs.

…

GCC to set up defense institute

Source: The Saudi Gazette (Read full story)

…

The communique said that the defense ministers stressed the importance of finding a substitute to the current track of the telecommunications cable and unifying the references of medical services. The council discussed the dangers and threats facing the member states in the light of the various changes and developments in the region. In this context, the council condemned the recent blasts in Bahrain and stressed the members’ full support to the Kingdom of Bahrain.