Jeddah – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz held official talks with President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma on bilateral relations and means of cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Sierra Leone in different fields. At the outset of the session, the President granted the
Kuwait- Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at Bayan Palace on Sunday. The two sides discussed boosting bilateral ties and cooperation on all levels as well as developing joint-Arab work, said Deputy Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs
Galveston (Texas)- Officials said over 400 migratory birds of brilliant plumage were killed when they smashed into an office tower in Texas while flying in a storm. Josh Henderson, animal services supervisor for Galveston police, revealed that office workers arrived at the tallest skyscraper in down
Beijing – The Chinese capital’s environmental bureau announced that Beijing removed 180,000 old and polluting vehicles from its roads in the first four months of 2017, as part of its efforts to tackle congestion and reduce smog. An action plan published in 2015 committed Beijing to remov
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday vowed to help a group of 82 schoolgirls who have been freed from more than three years of Boko Haram captivity following a prisoner swap that included the release of several militant commanders. The girls — who were among more than 200 kidna
Jeddah – Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, received in Jeddah on Sunday evening US Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, US President’s Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Thomas Bossert, and their accompanying de
Tel Aviv- The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revived on Sunday hopes on declaring Israel a Jewish State after a ministerial committee approved the revised version of a bill pushed by right-wingers. The draft law still has to be presented to the Knesset for a vote in a preliminary re
Paris – The French people elected on Sunday centrist Emmanuel Macron, 39, as their new president, to become the youngest head of the republic. The former economy minister emphatically defeated his rival National Front leader Marine Le Pen by a large margin of 65.9 percent of the vote to 34.1. Throug
Beirut- Foreign ISIS radicals turned on Sunday against an agreement reached with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to withdraw from Tabqa in the Raqqa province and decided to continue fighting in two neighborhoods inside the Syrian city. Meanwhile, reports coming from inside Raqqa, Deir Ezzor and t
Riyadh- Aiming to spread the culture and history of the Arabian Peninsula and Saudi Arabia, the “Roads of Arabia” exhibition hits its second stop in Asia. Prince Sultan bin Salman, president of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, and Pyung oh-Kwon, the South Korean ambassador to
ISIS leader in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, has been killed as stated by the Afghan government on Sunday. President Ashraf Ghani said that Hasib was killed in a raid in the early hours of last Thursday. The operation was led by special forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, during which two US ar
London – Flooded with tantalising possibility, the temptation for Didier Deschamps to pick his next France squad merely by drawing lots must have some traction. The new wave of talent to burst on to the scene is impossible to ignore as they have sparkled in European football this season as wel
Toronto, Canada – Torrential rains lashed parts of central and eastern Canada on Friday, causing flooding, flight delays and traffic disruptions, and the prime minister said the federal government was ready to provide help if necessary. The provinces of Ontario and Quebec have been dealing wit
Do not rush into judging the safe zones plan in Syria. It is not a totally bad idea, but, as one commentator said, the devil is in the details. When the idea of assigning areas for civilians escaping the war was suggested few years ago, it was rapidly rejected by the Syrian regime, Iran, and [&helli
Hanover, Germany – German authorities are conducting one of the largest bomb disposal operations since World War II. More than 50,000 residents in the northwestern German city are obliged to evacuate their homes. The evacuation process started on Friday evening with seven care home residents a
It is normal for any president to choose his inaugural visit based on his country’s interests. However, if this was done by US President Donald Trump then no doubt that the state he chooses will have the lion’s stake from these interests. This is what Trump did when he chose Saudi Arabia to be his [
Riyadh – The Gulf business sector is looking forward to US President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, hoping that it would remediate challenges facing bilateral relations and promote economic, industrial, investment and trade relations between the US and the GCC. In remarks to Asharq Al-Awsat n
Cairo – Libya’s best interest requires offering concessions, said National Salvation Government Prime Minister Khalifa Ghwell. In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, he stated that his major focus is on establishing a coherent state but affirmed that this can’t be achieved through a national di
Aden – Yemeni President Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi has elected a new governor Abdulaziz al-Maflhi following Aidarous Zoubeidi who was appointed an ambassador at the Foreign Ministry. Maflahi announced that his priorities for the coming period is reforming the services Aden, especially water, electricit
Washington – For the second time in just over three months, President Donald Trump administration lost its candidate to serve as secretary of the army after he withdrew from consideration following criticism for his previous bigoted statements against Muslims and US citizens of Latin origins. Republ
