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DUBAI: The world is preparing for an unprecedented celebration of New Year’s Eve, previously marked with grand public events. This year many countries have put restrictions to avoid mass gatherings

Saudi supermarket operator BinDawood Holding is pushing ahead with expansion plans after a 23.5 percent rise in sales at its Danube outlets during the pandemic. The Danube stores reported the surge

MANILA: A province of islands in the southern Philippines will seal itself off for an initial two weeks from Monday to keep out a new COVID-19 variant found in nearby Malaysia, its governor

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates’ Ministry of Health and Prevention confirmed 1,723 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, state news agency WAM reported. The new cases were detected after the ministry

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 than official figures suggest, according to a study by Chinese health

NEW YORK: As the coronavirus pandemic upended the world in 2020, hardly a week passed without the UN secretary-general sounding the alarm over another, related pandemic: That of an inequitable world
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RIYADH: Weather warnings have been issued for several regions across Saudi Arabia from Wednesday until Friday, the Kingdom’s civil defense said on Tuesday. The authority warned of thunderstorms with

MADINAH: Madinah Regional Municipality signed an investment contract with United Othaim Co. to set up and operate a hotel and a commercial market. The project is located in the southwestern central

DETROIT: When Andre Avery drives his commercial truck through Detroit, he keeps his pistol close. Avery, 57, grew up in the Motor City and is aware that homicides and shootings are surging, even

BRUSSELS: The distribution of an initial 200 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech across the European Union will be completed by September, a spokesman for the EU

JAKARTA: International visitors will be barred from entering Indonesia for a two-week period in a bid to stem the spread of a new potentially more contagious strain of the coronavirus, its foreign

SHANGHAI: A Chinese citizen journalist was jailed for four years for her livestream reporting from Wuhan as the Covid-19 outbreak unfurled, her lawyer said Monday, almost a year after details of an

LONDON: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appears to have sparked a surge in the number of people registering for the coronavirus vaccine in the Kingdom after being inoculated on

DUBAI: At least eight climbers have died and several more are missing in mountains north of Iran’s capital Tehran after heavy snowfall and a blizzard, state television reported on Saturday, and the

There is hardly any respite in the broadening and intensification of the points of friction between Israel and Iran. The battle between these two major Middle Eastern powers is mainly indirect, but

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has formally invited leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for the 41st group summit being held in Riyadh on January 5 next year. The invitation was sent

MOSCOW: The total number of cases of coronavirus infections in Russia crossed the 3 million mark for the first time on Saturday after officials recorded 29,258 new cases in the preceding 24 hours and

BEIRUT: Israeli missile strikes on Syria killed at least six Iran-backed fighters on Friday, a war monitor said.

LONDON: Slaven Bilic’s sacking by West Brom last week made him the earliest managerial departure in a Premier League season for six years after it took 18 games for Cardiff City to dismiss Neil

She may be around 5 or quite possibly older, but she is small. Her little hands are clutching four clear plastic bags. The top one is a goody bag with a handful of small local chocolates. Then there

Throughout his long tenure in the Kremlin, which began in May 2000, Russian President Vladimir Putin has managed to ensure his country remains a thorn in America’s side. Consistently vexing the West

The IMF has estimated the cost to the global economy of the pandemic to have been $28 trillion this year, while successive lockdowns are thought to have reduced economic activity in concerned

GAZA CITY: Nasr Al-Jaldah and his fellow Christians living in Gaza face a canceled Christmas mass as the coronavirus pandemic hits the small enclave’s churches. The celebration usually offers a brief
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