It is an official holiday in most countries specifically in Egypt, Lebanon, kingdom of Bahrain, Palestine, and Syria where it coincides with May Day.

Among other issues, the referendum paved the way for national elections and for the country to become a constitutional monarchy, changing the country's official name from the State of Bahrain to the Kingdom of Bahrain ( a change which took effect in February 2002 ).

The Countess of Wessex has been criticised for accepting two sets of jewels from the royal family of Bahrain during an official day-long visit to the country in December 2011, as she and her husband returned to the UK from a trip to Afghanistan.

The Indian rupee used to be an official currency of other countries, including the Straits Settlements ( now Singapore and parts of Malaysia ), Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States ( now the UAE ).

* Article VI: The Flag of the Kingdom of Bahrain shall not be hoisted on vehicles, except on the official protocol vehicles.

In the Summer of 1979, Dr. Hashim paid an official visit to Bahrain.

The first official competition the team entered was the Asian Nations Cup 1996 when it was seeded in the three-team Group 8 with Uzbekistan and Bahrain.

His first official match was a friendly against Bahrain in Manama which Palestine won 1-0 courtesy of Ali El-Khatib's first international goal.

The idea was born out of King Saud's wish to nurture and further solidify the brotherly bond between the two Kingdoms, during an official visit to the State of Bahrain in 1954

Vicelich has played 84 times for the All Whites including a record 80 official full internationals in which he scored 7 goals, his appearance in in the first leg against Bahrain equalling Vaughan Coveny's then record of 64 official international caps.

The City of New York has an official television station run by the NYC Media Group and broadcasting from Bronx Community College, and Cablevision operates News 12 The Bronx, both of which feature programming based in the Bronx.

In 1991 there were 2, 000 foreign learners taking China's official Chinese Proficiency Test ( comparable to the English Cambridge Certificate ), while in 2005, the number of candidates had risen sharply to 117, 660 .< ref > " 汉语水平考试中心 ： 2005年外国考生总人数近12万 ",< sup > Gov. cn </ sup > Xinhua News Agency, January 16, 2006 .</ ref >

** EverQuest Players ( previously EQ Live ): official EverQuest News

* News from UNHCR official website

Wu Shaozu, an official from China's National Sports Commission, was at this time quoted in an interview with U. S. News & World Report that as many as 100 million may have taken up Falun Gong and other forms of qigong.

Xinhua News Agency, the official news organisation of the Communist Party, declared that Falun Gong is " opposed to the Communist Party of China and the central government, preaches idealism, theism and feudal superstition.

The official Chinese press agency, Xinhua News Agency, and other state media asserted that the self-immolators were practitioners, though the Falun Dafa Information Center disputed this, on the grounds that the movement's teachings explicitly forbid suicide and killing, further alleging that the event was a cruel but clever piece of stunt-work.

* Syrian Arab News Agency, the official news agency in Syria

The State of Michigan has designated Oscoda as the official home of Paul Bunyan due to the earliest documented publications in the Oscoda Press, August 10, 1906, by James MacGillivray ( later revised and published in The Detroit News in 1910 ).

Though not used in official communication, the nickname " Illinois Tech " has long been a favorite of students, inspiring the name of the student newspaper ; ( renamed in 1928 from Armour Tech News to TechNews ), and the former mascot of the university's collegiate sports teams, the Techawks.

* The official website of Huey Lewis and the News

When the Liberal-supporting Daily News used official import prices to demonstrate that a loaf of bread under tariff reform would be smaller than a free trade loaf of bread, Chamberlain arranged for two loaves to be baked based upon free trade and tariff reform prices.

Staunton made an official reply through The Illustrated London News stating that it was not possible for him to make the voyage to America and that Morphy must come to Europe if he wishes to challenge him and other European chess players.

Elbert County has a weekly newspaper that is published in the Town of Elizabeth, the Meadowlark Herald, though the official newspapers used by the County is the Elbert County News.

On May 28, 2010, the official ( North ) Korean Central News Agency stated that " it is the United States that is behind the case of ' Cheonan.

The official newspaper serving Columbus County, The News Reporter, is also based in Whiteville and has been in circulation since 1896.

The August 4, 1921 issue of the Leeds News announced that on August 7, 1921 the monument would be given its official dedication at 3 o ' clock by the Great Northern right of way near the depot.

* Town of Coopertown official website, including a " City News " section

The Bulverde Community News founded in 1994 by Bob Welch ( Publisher ) and Julia Welch ( Managing Editor ) exerted dominance in local news coverage and became the official paper of record for the newly formed City of Bulverde.

* News articles about conflict diamonds in the Israeli diamond industry official portal

In Canada, the main public broadcaster is the national Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ), which operates two television networks ( CBC Television and Télévision de Radio-Canada ), four radio networks ( CBC Radio One, CBC Radio Two, Première Chaîne and Espace musique ) and a number of cable television channel including two 24-hour news channels ( CBC News Network and RDI ) in both of Canada's official languages.

On December 24, an anonymous Vatican official told Catholic News Service, " There was no declaration, no judgment from the pope.

U. S. News and World Report claimed in its November 20, 1967 issue to have confirmation of the reality of the report from an unnamed government official, who added that when President Johnson read the report, he ' hit the roof ' and ordered it to be suppressed for all time.

The U. S. Commercial Service, through its Strategic Corporate Partnership program, has Public Private Partnership agreements with 17 private organizations, including several banks, legal and regulatory organizations, transportation and shipping organizations, event organizers, trade risk service companies and the publisher of Commercial News USA, the official export promotion magazine of the U. S. Department of Commerce, The ecommerce partner is the Federation of International Trade Associations under which the USCS contributes market research and other reports on GlobalTrade. net.

There was also a News of the World Championship in snooker from 1950 to 1959 which eclipsed the official professionals ' competition for a number of years.

Though the name Area 51 is used in official Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documentation, other names used for the facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home Base, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, and most recently Homey Airport.

The official seal of the CIA, however, may not be copied without permission as required by the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 ().

In 1976, after consultation with the National Security Agency ( NSA ), the NBS eventually selected a slightly modified version, which was published as an official Federal Information Processing Standard ( FIPS ) for the United States in 1977.

The Imperial Household Agency designates the in Sakai as Hanzei's official mausoleum.

In 1921, the Zionist Commission was granted official status as the Jewish Agency for Palestine in Article 4 of the Mandate.

His father, Karamchand Gandhi ( 1822 – 1885 ), who belonged to the Hindu Modh community, served as the diwan ( a high official ) of Porbander state, a small princely state in the Kathiawar Agency of British India.

The Puntland Intelligence Agency ( PIA ), a covert organization supported and trained by U. S. counter-terrorism agencies based in Djibouti, also indicated that over 70 salaried Somaliland soldiers had fought alongside Atom's militiamen during the Galgala operation, including one known Somaliland intelligence official who died in the ensuing battle.

** Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official ( b. 1918 )

* August 3 – Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official ( d. 1999 )

The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor ( abbreviated NSA, or sometimes APNSA or ANSA to avoid confusion with the abbreviation of the National Security Agency ), is a senior official in the Executive Office of the President who serves as the chief advisor, stationed in the White House, to the President of the United States on national security issues.

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In an interview with Australian ABC television in July 2001, Japanese Fisheries Agency official Maseyuku Komatsu described Minke Whales as " cockroaches of the sea ".

Thiệu was quoted in a Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) report as being described by an unnamed American official as “ intelligent, highly ambitious, and likely to remain a coup plotter with the aim of personal advancement ”.

* Receiver of Wreck, an official of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency of the United Kingdom, who is concerned with the management of wrecked ships and boats

The decision to notify an SSSI is made by the official nature conservation body ( the appropriate conservation body ) for that part of the United Kingdom: Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Natural England, Scottish Natural Heritage or the Countryside Council for Wales.

Lacey was the twelfth city to be designated an official " Green Power Community " by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency for its use of renewable energy sources ; 5 % of its total energy use comes from green power sources.

STANAGs are published in English and French, the two official languages of NATO, by the NATO Standardisation Agency in Brussels.

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

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* Missile Defense Agency ( MDA ) official site, Arrow system page.