Islamabad : Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was elected Pakistan's 22nd Prime Minister by the country's National Assembly on Friday, three weeks after his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party won the highest number of seats in the general election. Khan, 65,...
Ankara : Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday announced that his country will boycott American electronic products. The announcement came in his address to a symposium organized by the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) on the...
Cairo : Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit met here on Tuesday with Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Dr. Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen. During the meeting, the two sides discussed the latest developments on the issue of...
Jeddah : The number of Hajj pilgrims coming from outside Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the Hajj season until the end of Tuesday reached 1,570,054 pilgrims. According to the statistics issued by the General Directorate of Passports, this represents a decrease of...
Tehran : The Iranian Ministry of Industry banned the export of five types of commercial items, media reports said on Tuesday. The exports of packing paper, tissue paper, powdered milk, bulk and packed tea, and over 500g packets of butter will be prohibited from August...
Salalah : The Arab Media and Sustainable Tourism Conference, organized by the Arab Centre for Tourism Media (ACTM) in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism - Oman (MOT) and the Municipality of Dhofar, concluded its activities on Sunday with a call for integration...
Ankara : The Turkish lira has been targeted by U.S. President Donald Trump himself, and Turkey has prepared an action plan to soothe its volatility against the dollar, Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said late on Sunday. "We will implement a necessary...
Ankara : Turkey's currency nosedived again Monday with a fresh 11 per cent plunge as fears deepened about the country's ability to deal with a crisis that has rattled markets around the world. The Turkish lira dropped 11 per cent against the dollar in morning trading...
Washington : US military institutions are struggling to fill the 66 slots they had kept aside for officers from Pakistan for the next academic year, as President Donald Trump's administration refused to provide funds for their training, official sources said. The fund...
Jerusalem : Israel has carried out large-scale airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, targeting "12 terror sites", a military spokesperson said. Israel struck Hamas sites in Gaza, bombing a concrete factory and a maritime assault tunnel shaft, after at least 36 Gaza rockets...