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KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the war-damaged southern city of Mykolaiv on Saturday for the first time since the Russian invasion in a rare trip outside Kyiv. Zelensky’s office

DUBAI: Sadio Mané looks to be headed for Bayern Munich, ending his trophy-filled six-year spell at Liverpool in a move that would finally split up one of the most devastating forward lines in the

CHENNAI: Lauded at the ongoing Tribeca Film Festival, director Amanda Micheli’s taut new documentary on pop superstar Jennifer Lopez is enthralling and reflective. Now streaming on Netflix, the

DUBAI: Dutch-Palestinian model Bella Hadid has again voiced her support for Palestinian refugees, with an online post sharing scenes from filmmaker Mai Masri’s 1998 documentary “Children of Shatila.”

KABUL: A bomb blast at a mosque in northern Afghanistan killed at least one worshipper and wounded seven others during Friday midday prayers, police said.The explosion occurred in the northern

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s $500-billion giga-project NEOM has given contractors until July 31 to submit bids for the main works package to a key component of the city. The work is to deliver clusters 3-6

TEHRAN: Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi on Friday criticized the United States for imposing new sanctions on petrochemical producers in the Islamic republic, amid a deadlock in talks aimed at reviving

The 2022 West Asian Football Federation Women’s Futsal Championship is set to kick off on Thursday at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah. It is the third edition of the competition and

LONDON: Britain has no plans to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, but the Strasbourg court which enforces it overstepped its powers in blocking the deportation of asylum seekers to

RIYADH: National Shipping Co. of Saudi Arabia, better known as Bahri, has started the issuance of SR3.9 billion ($1.04 billion) Sukuk, denominated in Saudi Riyals. The offering started on June 16,

TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have arrested a person accused of having a link to two French citizens being held on espionage charges, state television reported Thursday. The report said the suspect was

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Competition has rejected National Gas and Industrialization Co.’s, or GASCO’s, acquisition deal with Best Gas Carrier Co., a bourse filing revealed.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has approved a four-day work week for public sector workers to help them cope with a chronic fuel shortage and encourage them to grow food, the government said on Tuesday, as it

BEIRUT: The US envoy mediating between Lebanon and Israel over their disputed maritime border met Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Tuesday in Beirut for talks on ways of reaching a solution amid

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Jadwa Investment has acquired a majority stake of 70 percent in Kuwait-based toy e-commerce platform, Dabdoob. The investment was completed through Jadwa E-commerce

DUBAI: A lone figure dressed in black sits cross-legged on the desert sands while facing a makeshift fishing hut, as dozens of birds fly over. The location is the island of Jubabibat — one of many

LONDON/DOVER: Britain’s first scheduled flight taking asylum seekers to Rwanda was set to depart on Tuesday, with the government warning that anyone who avoided it through last-minute legal

RIYADH: Saudi ports recorded a slight improvement in the volume of container throughput in May with 600,107 twenty-foot equipment units, registering a 1.38 percent increase over the same period last

BEIJING: Beijing’s most populous district Chaoyang announced three rounds of mass testing to quell a “ferocious” COVID-19 outbreak that emerged at a bar in a nightlife and shopping area last week,

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s gross domestic product is expected to grow by more than double the rate of other G20 economies, according to a forecast from the Organization of Economic Cooperation and

LONDON: Iran is “dangerously close” to completing its nuclear weapons program, and will be able to produce an atomic bomb unless the West gets tough on Tehran, Israel’s prime minister has warned.

RIYADH: First Abu Dhabi Bank has announced the completion of a legal merger with Bank Audi Egypt to operate as a single legal entity under the new name, First Abu Dhabi Bank Egypt. ُThe full

RIYADH: Raising Saudi Arabia’s import tariffs on more than 500 items led to an investment increase in goods production and more jobs in the Kingdom, according to the Ministry of Industry and Mineral

LONDON: The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the Taliban on Thursday for violently beating an Afghan journalist and charging three others over corruption reporting, urging them to file an