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EditorJanuary 17, 2022

ANKARA: Twitter on Friday suspended an account linked to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after it carried an animated video depicting the assassination of former US President Donald Trump. The video has also been posted on Khamenei’s official website, where it is described as the “winning animation from the people in the ‘Hero’ contest […]

EditorJanuary 17, 2022

A group of five women performed samba dance, while wearing semi-nude dresses, on the streets of Jazan city in Saudi Arabia during a state-run festival. A video of the performance has went viral on social media. Amid growing criticism against the same, authorities in the country have initiated a probe. Jazan governor Prince Muhammad bin […]

EditorJanuary 17, 2022

TEHRAN, Iran: Six years after snapping their diplomatic ties, arch-foes Iran and Saudi Arabia are slowly moving toward rapprochement and preparing to reopen embassies, according to a senior Iranian lawmaker. Jalil Rahimi Jahanabadi, a member of the Iranian Parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission, in a Twitter post on Saturday, said the two countries are […]

EditorJanuary 15, 2022

New Delhi: The Chinese government’s rights record and its “wolf warrior” diplomacy resulted in increasingly negative public perceptions of the government in some countries abroad, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its World Report 2022. New research from AidData revealed $385 billion in “hidden debt” owed by developing countries to Chinese authorities. Some foreign […]

EditorJanuary 15, 2022

KABUL: The United Nations migration agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), continued to expand its relief operations across Afghanistan in response to mounting complex humanitarian needs. The agency wrote on its website that the IOM has continued to re-engage established livelihood, community development and infrastructure projects. “(The) IOM, along with the rest of the humanitarian […]

EditorJanuary 15, 2022

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged the US and the World Bank to unfreeze Afghan funds to prevent “the nightmare unfolding in Afghanistan” from getting worse. KABUL — The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has welcomed the remarks of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calling on the US to lift a ban on the war-torn country’s assets. “We […]

EditorJanuary 15, 2022

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The US Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job. Antara Haldar CAMBRIDGE – The coronavirus is everywhere: in the air, on surfaces, in our respiratory tracts, and, over the past week, at […]

EditorJanuary 14, 2022

Israel has in the past week seen a new record of virus carriers, increasing from 12,000 a day to 48,000 Jerusalem: Israel has detected some 20 cases of a new sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of Covid. The sub-variant, known as BA.2, was discovered during genetic sequencing of Covid patients. It contains more mutations […]

EditorJanuary 14, 2022

RAMZY BAROUD As soon as media reports emerged regarding a deal between Palestinian prisoner, Hisham Abu Hawash and the Israeli prison authorities, Israeli extremists, led by Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir, angrily raided the Assaf Harofeh Hospital where Abu Hawash was being held. A Palestinian political activist, Abu Hawash, 41, is a father of five. He was arrested by […]

EditorJanuary 14, 2022

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia aims to take advantage of its uranium resources to develop its nuclear power program, Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud revealed. During the International Mining Conference in Riyadh, he highlighted the importance of energy flexibility to face the transition to clean energy, Xinhua news agency quoted Al Arabiya News as […]

Category: World

Twitter suspends account linked to Iran’s supreme leader after Trump threat

Controversy over semi nude dance on street in Saudi Arabia

Iran, Saudi Arabia ‘preparing to reopen embassies,’ says Iranian lawmaker

China’s increasingly negative perceptions in the world

IOM continues to expand relief operation in Afghanistan

Taliban Welcomes UN Chief’s Call to Lift Ban on Afghanistan’s Assets

Covid Goes to Supreme Court

‘BA.2’: Israel detects new sub-variant of Omicron

The Real ‘Doomsday Scenario’: How Palestinian Hunger Striker, Abu Hawash Forced Israeli Concession

Saudi Arabia to develop nuclear power programme

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