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RIYADH: Saudi Makkah and Madinah are expected to see the addition of 110,000 rooms by 2030 to cater for Hajj pilgrims, a report has claimed. Over 100,000 rooms are expected to be supplied across…
RIYADH: More than 1,400 Iraqi Hajj pilgrims arrived in the Kingdom through Jadidat Arar land port on Wednesday, Saudi Press Agency…
RIYADH: Dogecoin, a widely used cryptocurrency, jumped 7.9 percent on Tuesday after Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, said…
DOHA: QatarEnergy on Tuesday signed a deal with Exxon Mobil Corp. for the Gulf state’s North Field East expansion, the world’s…
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Egypt on Monday. And US President Joe Biden is to visit Saudi Arabia next…
LONDON: Oil prices rose almost $2 on Tuesday on high summer fuel demand while supplies remain tight because of sanctions on…
DUBAI: US actress Keleigh Teller is shutting down red carpets across the world as she supports her husband, Miles Teller, at…
Having lost the support of much of his own Conservative Party and narrowly survived a no-confidence vote, British Prime Minister Boris…
DUBAI: US Palestinian Dutch supermodel Gigi Hadid was on hand to celebrate legendary modelling agent Luiz Mattos’s birthday in New York…
LONDON: The mother of an American photojournalist killed by Daesh said that one of the group’s members came “very close” to…
TUNIS: Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Tunis on Saturday in opposition to a referendum on a new constitution…
KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the war-damaged southern city of Mykolaiv on Saturday for the first time since the Russian…
DUBAI: Sadio Mané looks to be headed for Bayern Munich, ending his trophy-filled six-year spell at Liverpool in a move that…
CHENNAI: Lauded at the ongoing Tribeca Film Festival, director Amanda Micheli’s taut new documentary on pop superstar Jennifer Lopez is enthralling…
DUBAI: Dutch-Palestinian model Bella Hadid has again voiced her support for Palestinian refugees, with an online post sharing scenes from filmmaker…
KABUL: A bomb blast at a mosque in northern Afghanistan killed at least one worshipper and wounded seven others during Friday…
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's $500-billion giga-project NEOM has given contractors until July 31 to submit bids for the main works package to…
TEHRAN: Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on Friday criticized the United States for imposing new sanctions on petrochemical producers in the Islamic…
The 2022 West Asian Football Federation Women’s Futsal Championship is set to kick off on Thursday at the King Abdullah Sports…
LONDON: Britain has no plans to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, but the Strasbourg court which enforces it overstepped…
RIYADH: National Shipping Co. of Saudi Arabia, better known as Bahri, has started the issuance of SR3.9 billion ($1.04 billion) Sukuk,…
TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have arrested a person accused of having a link to two French citizens being held on espionage charges,…
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Competition has rejected National Gas and Industrialization Co.’s, or GASCO’s, acquisition deal with Best Gas…
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has approved a four-day work week for public sector workers to help them cope with a chronic fuel…
BEIRUT: The US envoy mediating between Lebanon and Israel over their disputed maritime border met Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Tuesday…
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's Jadwa Investment has acquired a majority stake of 70 percent in Kuwait-based toy e-commerce platform, Dabdoob. The investment…
DUBAI: A lone figure dressed in black sits cross-legged on the desert sands while facing a makeshift fishing hut, as dozens…
LONDON/DOVER: Britain’s first scheduled flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda was set to depart on Tuesday, with the government warning that…