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RIYADH: Jordan will provide one million job opportunities during the next 10 years as part of its new vision for its national economy, according to Jordan News Agency. As Jordan is facing economic

DUBAI: Pensioners protested in Iran on Monday against soaring living costs, according to Fars news agency and social media reports, in a further challenge to authorities grappling with weeks of

RIYADH: Bahrain announced on Monday 24 deaths from COVID-19 – the highest figure since the pandemic began. The number of cases in the kingdom has increased sharply during May, with 3,177 new

“Beware the Asian Cup’s most entertaining player!”, warned Australia’s newspapers as the Socceroos prepared to face the UAE for a place at the 2015 AFC Asian Cup final, the host nation’s publications

GAZA: Israel arrested four Palestinian fishermen off the Mediterranean coast of Gaza on Saturday, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. The Israeli military said it apprehended four suspects after

AL-MUKALLA: Hundreds of Yemenis thronged to health facilities across government-controlled areas to receive COVID-19 vaccines on Monday as the country resumed its campaign to inoculate thousands of

LONDON: An-Nahar newspaper launched on Monday a campaign titled “Your Judgement,” which calls for the independence of the Lebanese justice system and its liberation from political affiliations.

TUNIS: Tunisian police scuffled with protesters against President Kais Saied on Saturday as around 100 people demonstrated against a planned July referendum, a year after his power grab opponents

TUNIS: Tunisian police scuffled with protesters against President Kais Saied on Saturday as around 100 people demonstrated against a planned July referendum, a year after his power grab opponents

MADRID: Lebanese-Colombian superstar Shakira and FC Barcelona defender Gerard Pique said Saturday they were calling time on their relationship of more than a decade. The couple share two children.

KYIV: Ukraine’s embattled eastern region of Donetsk will not fall quickly to Russia’s assault, but it needs the world to supply more weapons to keep the offensive at bay, its governor told Reuters on

BERLIN: Three people were killed and several injured when a regional train derailed in southern Germany on Friday, a police spokesperson said. The spokesperson, who did not have any details on who

LONDON: Muslim communities are being failed by the UK’s flagship counter-extremism Prevent strategy, a government advisor has told the BBC. Dame Sarah Khan said the government had left a “vacuum” of

BERLIN: A German woman, who took her young daughter to Syria, joined Daesh group there and allegedly took advantage of an enslaved Yazidi woman, was convicted Wednesday of membership in a terrorist

RIYADH: The President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdymukhamedov arrived in Jeddah on Wednesday. The president was received at King Abdulaziz International Airport by Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal

MANCHESTER: French World Cup-winning midfielder Paul Pogba is to leave Manchester United at the end of June, the club said Wednesday, bringing the curtain down on a largely disappointing second

RIYADH: Academy of Learning Co. has published its registration document for a direct listing on Saudi Arabia’s parallel market Nomu at SR40 ($11) per share, the company’s financial advisor Aldukheil

RIYADH: Bahrain-based GFH Financial Group began trading its shares on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange on Tuesday as it looks to tap into the wider investor market in the region. “With our listing,

BERLIN: A court in Germany on Tuesday convicted five men for membership in a local cell of the Daesh group that received orders from a leading Daesh figure in Afghanistan. The Duesseldorf regional

CAIRO: Mostafa Madbouly, prime minister of Egypt, and Sultan bin Ahmed Al-Jaber, UAE minister of industry and advanced technology, have agreed to set up working groups to formulate renewable energy

RIYADH: The UAE’s share in Saudi Arabia’s non-oil exports including re-exports dropped to 14.81 percent in the first quarter this year, down from 14.87 percent the previous quarter, according to the

RIYADH: Adel Al-Jubeir was appointed as envoy for climate affairs in addition to his work on Sunday by royal decree, Saudi Press Agency reported. More to follow…

DUBAI: Former president Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday called for Russia to toughen its laws on “foreign agents” and prosecute individuals working for the interests of foreign states. Russia has

The Iranian army has given some details — but not the exact location — of an underground base for its military drones, state media reported on Saturday, amid simmering tensions in the Gulf. State TV