MUSCAT (AFP) - Experienced French coach Paul Le Guen, who led Cameroon at the 2010 World Cup, was on Saturday named as the new boss of the Oman national team, officials said.
Le Guen succeeds compatriot Claude Leroy who was sacked after Oman's poor performance at the last Gulf Cup.
The new coach will arrive in the country on June 27 before Oman's friendlies against Kuwait and Leban [...]
ABU DHABI (AFP) - Gulf Arab states aim to bring a long-awaited customs unification into effect in 2015 as they vie to remove hurdles that delayed the union launched eight years ago, an Emirati minister said on Saturday.
"What we have agreed upon is that in the next three year, meaning 2011 to 2014, we should complete all the pending issues in regard to the customs union," said the S [...]
MUSCAT (AFP) - An Omani court will begin trails on Monday for 27 people charged with participating in an illegal protest in the northern industrial town of Sohar, a judicial source says.
Eight of the suspects are in custody while the others had been released on bail after their arrest for taking part in violent demonstrations at Sohar, 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of the capital [...]
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Pirates hijacked a German-owned cargo ship carrying a crew of six Filipinos and four Ukrainians off the coast of Oman on Friday, the European Union's naval force said Friday.
The Susan K was on its way to Port Sudan from Mumbai when it was boarded by at least 10 pirates around 200 nautical miles northeast of Salalah, Oman, early Friday, the EU anti-piracy Navfor mis [...]
MUSCAT (AFP) - Omani police have released 57 people arrested in a crackdown on protests in the northern industrial city of Sohar, a day after a protester was shot dead, ONA state news agency reported.
The public prosecutor announced it had concluded questioning those arrested on Tuesday, when security forces stormed the Earth roundabout in Sohar, the scene of protest sit-ins since Februar [...]
MUSCAT (AFP) - Omani police shot dead a protester on Friday in the port of Sohar, north of Muscat when they opened fire to disperse demonstrators demanding the release of prisoners, witnesses told AFP.
It was the second death in the port during the current wave of unrest sweeping across the region, after police killed a protester at the end of February in Sohar, an industrial area some 20 [...]
BRUSSELS (AFP) - Pirates armed with rocket-propelled grenades on Monday hijacked a Kuwaiti oil tanker carrying 29 sailors including 17 Pakistanis southeast of Oman, the European Union's naval forces said.
The Zirku crude oil tanker was seized some 250 nautical miles southeast of the Omani port of Salalah at around 0900 GMT, the EU Navfor anti-piracy mission said in a statement.
"The vess [...]
MUSCAT (AFP) - Oman's Sultan Qaboos on Sunday granted legislative power to the previously toothless Oman Council after weeks of anti-government protests in the strategic Gulf state.
"We grant the Oman Council legislative and regulatory powers," said a royal decree carried by ONA state news agency, referring to the elected Majlis Ash-Shura consultative council and the all-appointed Council [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - The six Gulf Arab states vowed on Thursday to deal "decisively" with threats to any member's security and set up a $20 billion development fund for Bahrain and Oman which were hit with protests.
"The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) believes that any threat to the security of any member state harms the security of all states and will be dealt with decisively and immediately, [...]
MUSCAT (AFP) - Sultan Qaboos of Oman ordered a major cabinet reshuffle on Monday after weeks of anti-government protests in the strategic Gulf state, state television said.
"The Sultan of Oman has ordered a reshuffle of the council of ministers," a television announcer said, before reading the names of members of the reshaped cabinet.
The reshuffle had been expected after Sultan Qaboos o [...]
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