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NEW YORK: With the election this year of India, Norway, Ireland, Kenya and Mexico to the non-permanent, rotating membership of the Security Council, the 15 members of the UN body have a combined
Here are a few things you need to know as Saudi stocks start trading on Monday. - Saudi Basic Industries Corp.’s…
SYDNEY: Microsoft has a “Plan B available” if Google follows through on threats to leave Australia over plans to compel digital…
DUBAI: National Geographic Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with Saudi dairy company Almarai, this week announced the shortlisted entries for the 2020…
Saudi Arabia is a good example of advanced digital infrastructure, noting that NEOM reflects the Kingdom’s ability to implement projects, Mohamed…
SINGAPORE: United States President Joe Biden and China President Xi Jinping may meet at the World Economic Forum’s summit in Singapore…
BUCHAREST, Romania: A fire early Friday at a key hospital in Bucharest that also treats COVID-19 patients killed at least four…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday he was following developments in Myanmar, where military threats and coup fears have…
LONDON: The British public should not book any overseas summer vacation yet, the minister responsible for the country’s COVID-19 vaccination program…
TAIPEI, Taiwan: Health authorities in Taiwan are quarantining 5,000 people while looking for the source of two new coronavirus cases linked…
SEOUL, South Korea: A North Korean diplomat who served as the country’s acting ambassador to Kuwait has defected to South Korea,…
NEW DELHI: The Indian government will hold new talks with the leaders of tens of thousands of farmers camped on the…
WASHINGTON: The US military has met its goal of reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan to about 2,500 by Friday,…
JAKARTA: Indonesian investigators with the National Transportation Safety Committee have successfully downloaded information from the flight data recorder of the Sriwijaya…
WUHAN, China: A global team of researchers arrived Thursday in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to…
SEOUL, South Korea: South Korea’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 20-year prison term for former President Park Geun-hye over bribery…
SAN FRANCISCO, US: Twitter chief Jack Dorsey backed the messaging platform’s ban of US President Donald Trump, but said Wednesday it…
The Iranian regime is facing several critical problems. First of all, its response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been severely…
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday brought together the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for the first time since a…
DUBAI: The UAE on Monday recorded 2,404 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths related to the virus. Officials from the Ministry…
NEW DELHI: India will start its COVID-19 vaccination drive from Jan. 16 with priority given to about 30 million health care…
TIRANA, Albania: Albanian military and police ships saved 50 Syrian refugees trapped by bad weather as they tried to reach Italy…
NEW YORK: The threat posed by terrorism is greater now than it was at the time of the 9/11 attacks in…
LONDON: A new study has found that smokers are more likely to develop COVID-19 symptoms and end up in hospital, contradicting…
ISTANBUL: The European Union will impose tariffs from Friday on hot-rolled iron and steel products from Turkey based on an ongoing…
DUBAI: Syrian designer Rami Al-Ali has launched a new initiative to support and celebrate Syrian talent in the region. Ard Dyar, a…
We are less than a week into 2021, but if what has happened so far is an indicator of things to…
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has taught us how quickly things can change. In the oil industry, things were looking so good…
