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LONDON: Warmer and wetter weather linked to climate change appears to stress out bumblebees and make their wings more asymmetrical, which could ultimately affect their future development, according

RIYADH: The Saudi government will continue to implement a ceiling on gasoline prices in the medium-term, the Kingdom’s deputy minister for macro-fiscal policy at the Ministry of Finance told

CONCORD, New Hampshire: A judge on Monday denied a family’s attempt to sue Lebanon on allegations that the country’s security agency kidnapped and tortured their family member before he died in the

KYIV, Ukraine: Massive explosions and fires hit a military depot in Russia-annexed Crimea on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 people, the second time in recent days that the Ukraine

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s benchmark index settled flat on Tuesday’s trading session, as investors scramble to assess the impact of declining energy prices and higher inflation on the index The Tadawul

Bassam Al-Sheikh Hussein, the Lebanese man who was hailed a hero for taking hostages at gunpoint in a Beirut bank while demanding the release of his frozen funds to pay for his father’s medical

JERUSALEM: The lawyer for a Palestinian prisoner said Tuesday that his client will appeal his case to Israel’s Supreme Court as he continues what his family says is a 165-day hunger strike against

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s low-cost airline has recorded an accelerated growth of 120 percent in the number of passengers during the first half of 2022. The number of passengers has increased to around 4

RIYADH: 17 new housing schemes were approved in Madinah during the second quarter of 2022, Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday. The schemes cover a total area of 2,242,738 square meters and include

RIYADH: The Tadawul All Share Index, Saudi Arabia’s main index, ended the first trading session of the week lower, following four consecutive gains led by a decline in Aramco. TASI slipped 0.13

BEIRUT: The father of Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed novelist Salman Rushdie in the US on Friday, is refusing to talk to anyone. Since hearing about his 24-year-old son’s crime, he has not received

RIYADH: Ukraine’s foreign currency rating was lowered to selective default, from CC, by global rating agency S&P, and to restricted default, from C, by Fitch Ratings, according to Bloomberg. This

LONDON: Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who staged a protest against the invasion of Ukraine on live TV in March, was placed under house arrest on Thursday after being charged with spreading

LONDON: The UK government on Friday officially declared a drought in several parts of England, following months of record low rainfall and unprecedented temperatures in recent weeks. At a meeting of

JEDDAH: An exhibition exploring Saudi Arabia’s ambitious The Line project is leaving visitors enthralled thanks to the work of specialist tour guides. The details of the NEOM project are on full

BENGALURU: US stock index futures rose on Friday, setting the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq for a fourth straight week of gains on easing bets of another super-sized interest rate hike by the Federal

LONDON: Gold prices inched lower on Friday but were still on track for a weekly rise, as an overall weakness in the dollar offset pressure from an uptick in bond yields and expectations of further

RIYADH: The Saudi Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources issued 90 new industrial licenses in June, which were distributed over five industrial sectors. Industries associated with the

DUBAI: Dubai’s Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum has met with delivery rider who went viral on social media after removing two concrete blocks from the road. Abdul Ghafoor

RIYADH: Saudi Industrial Services Co.’s second-quarter revenues jumped 9 percent from the first quarter of 2022, driven by strong performance in the ports and water sectors. Revenues for the second

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s MBC Studios announced this week that its production team has started shooting the Kingdom’s fantasy adventure “Rise of the Witches.” The team is filming in NEOM, the smart city

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Ministries of Finance and Energy have fully nationalized the Saudi Power Procurement Co. after buying up shares in one of the firm’s subsidiaries. The ministries announced the

CAIRO: Kuwait’s Public Works Ministry is inviting bids for the expansion of $1.7 billion North Kabd wastewater treatment plant. The deadline for the engineering, procurement and construction contract

RIYADH: Saudi stocks market started higher on Tuesday — and continued to rise until the end of the day as investors took comfort in corporate earnings reports. The Saudi benchmark index, TASI, rose