Regional News
SEOUL: Seoul is preparing to take legal action against Iran over the seizure of a South Korean oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. The South Korean-flagged
DUBAI: Iran has registered its first case of a highly contagious coronavirus variant that emerged in Britain, in an Iranian who…
LONDON: Early-stage trials indicate that a cheap and readily available drug has the potential to make “transformative” changes to COVID-19 mortality…
WASHINGTONG: The US reversed a decision to bring an aircraft carrier home from the Gulf Sunday, with the Pentagon saying that…
DUBAI: Iran has resumed 20 percent uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow nuclear facility, the government spokesman told the semi-official Mehr…
ISTANBUL: A car bomb targeting workers of a Turkish company killed four people including one Turkish citizen on Saturday in Somalia,…
DUBAI: Egyptian-Canadian actor Mena Massoud is set to star in a new Egyptian feature film titled “Fe Ez el Dohr.” He…
DUBAI: She’s appeared in plenty of blockbuster films and now French-Algerian actress Sofia Boutella is set to star in a new…
DUBAI: The world is preparing for an unprecedented celebration of New Year’s Eve, previously marked with grand public events. This year…
Saudi supermarket operator BinDawood Holding is pushing ahead with expansion plans after a 23.5 percent rise in sales at its Danube…
MANILA: A province of islands in the southern Philippines will seal itself off for an initial two weeks from Monday to…
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Health and Prevention confirmed 1,723 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, state news agency WAM…
UAE records 1,723 new coronavirus cases, 1,607 recoveries and 3 deaths
BEIJING: The number of coronavirus cases in the city where the outbreak was first detected may have been 10 times higher…
BRUSSELS: The distribution of an initial 200 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech across the European…
JAKARTA: International visitors will be barred from entering Indonesia for a two-week period in a bid to stem the spread of…
SHANGHAI: A Chinese citizen journalist was jailed for four years for her livestream reporting from Wuhan as the Covid-19 outbreak unfurled,…
There is hardly any respite in the broadening and intensification of the points of friction between Israel and Iran. The battle…
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has formally invited leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for the 41st group summit being…
MOSCOW: The total number of cases of coronavirus infections in Russia crossed the 3 million mark for the first time on…
She may be around 5 or quite possibly older, but she is small. Her little hands are clutching four clear plastic…
Throughout his long tenure in the Kremlin, which began in May 2000, Russian President Vladimir Putin has managed to ensure his…
The IMF has estimated the cost to the global economy of the pandemic to have been $28 trillion this year, while…
As 2020 comes to a close, many people worldwide will be glad to see it go. A historic pandemic rocked our…
Most British people would like to see their country as Cool Britannia, as it was portrayed in the late 1990s, or…
Since the death of Yasser Arafat and the collapse of the peace process, many Palestinian activists and groups have blamed his…
DUBAI: Despite lockdowns and travel bans in effect across the world, people are still trying to get festive during the holidays and…
LOS ANGELES/ JEDDAH: Hollywood heavyweight George Clooney is no stranger to the big screen, but his latest outing — both as lead…
