RAMALLAH: Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was hospitalised yesterday with stomach pains, but his life was not in any danger, medics in Ramallah said.
Fayyad “suffered from a mild infection of the stomach and is being treated with antibiotics,” a doctor at the hospital in the West Bank city said.
The 61-year-old, a smoker who suffered a heart attack during a private visit to the US in May 2011, could be kept at the hospital overnight for observation, the source added.
A former senior official at the International Monetary Fund, Fayyad is an economist who won respect for cleaning up the finances of the Palestinian Authority and improving security in the West Bank. He has headed the Palestinian government since June 2007, after Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip.
Bahraini’s 10-year jail term for spying for Iran confirmed
DUBAI: A Bahraini accused of spying for Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards unit has had his 10-year jail sentence confirmed by a court of appeal, the state news agency BNA news agency reported.
The sentence, passed in July 2011 by a lower court, was confirmed on Sunday by the Court of Appeal in Manama, the report said.
The convicted man, who has not been identified, was accused of passing “military information and identifying sensitive sites in Bahrain” to two Iranian diplomats posted to Kuwait, according to local media.
The reports said he was recruited as a paid spy by the diplomats when he visited relatives in Kuwait.
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