Riyadh – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz sent a written message to Emir Sheikh Tammim bin Hamad Al Thani of the State of Qatar and President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates inviting them to attend King Abdulaziz Camel Festival scheduled for
Geneva, London – A team of scientists from different countries have unpicked the regions of the brain involved in dreaming and acting as the “Hallmark of Dreaming.” Dreams had long been known to occur during different phases of sleeping, but researchers didn’t know the exact reason
Beirut- Clashes in the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon came to a halt on Tuesday after Lebanese and Palestinian parties forced the Fatah Movement to accept a deal that ends the clashes with the “Bilal Badr” group. The deal stipulates dismantling the security square in the
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has urged US President Donald Trump to peacefully resolve surging tensions over North Korea’s nuclear program, as a US aircraft carrier strike group steams towards the region. In a phone call with Trump, Xi told him China “advocates resolving the issue through peacefu
Moscow, Washington, Beirut- US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who landed on Tuesday in Moscow to meet with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, brought back the fate of Bashar Assad to the forefront of discussions on the country’s civil war. Tillerson carries with him a unified letter fro
Cologne (Germany)- International festivals of sand sculptures have become increasingly popular on the world’s beaches and many such sculptures have been preserved in museums. The “Sea Adventures” exhibition opened on April 8 in Ahlbeck, Usedom Island located in the Baltic Sea between Germany and Pol
Amsterdam, London- Only about 30 Dutch clog-makers still remain in the country, fighting to save a dying craft with the wooden shoes, and to preserve their profession that survived over generations. Even though clogs have been made for centuries across many countries such as in France and Britain, t
North Korea condemned on Tuesday the United States’ “reckless” deployment of a naval strike group to the region, saying it is ready for war if Washington moved against it. The strike group — which includes the Nimitz-class aircraft supercarrier USS Carl Vinson — cancelled a planned trip
The treatment of a passenger who was physically dragged off a United Airlines plane sparked outrage and one of the security officers involved in the incident was placed on leave pending an investigation Videos posted online by other passengers showed a man screaming as officers yanked him from his s
Shopping for consumer electronics can be overwhelming. The staff of the The Wirecutter and The Sweethome, product review websites owned by The New York Times Company, do the hard work of narrowing down the options. We spoke with Grant Clauser, smart home editor at The Wirecutter, about how to sort t
Recruited to the academy at 13, he had become Caen’s youngest senior player at 16 years and 114 days. In the summer of 2012 the teenager from Les Mureaux, an unforgiving industrial suburb of the Yvelines département to the west of Paris, would spend time on trial at Arsenal and Everton, listening to
Caracas-Venezuela erupted Monday in a fifth day of violent protests against President Nicolas Maduro as the US voiced “grave concern” over moves to stifle one of his main opponents. In the latest clashes, riot police in Caracas fired tear gas at stone-throwing demonstrators – whose leaders vow
During the Soviet Union era, the Arab relations with Moscow were mostly positive given their similar stances in many matters, mainly the Palestinian cause. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, vacuum was all over the Middle East which is geographically far from the union and the region was do
The ISIS militant group has lost more than three-fourths of the territory it had seized when it swept across Iraq in 2014, the military announced on Tuesday. At the height of its power, the group controlled about 40 percent of Iraq, joint operations command spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasool t
Geneva- The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR issued a statement on Monday calling on European Union states not to send Middle Eastern and African asylum seekers back to Hungary for assessment until that country amends its new law on detaining migrants at the border. The situation for asylum seeke
Cologne – A German court in the western city of Cologne on Monday convicted a 16-year-old Syrian refugee for planning to carry out a terror attack. The regional court said in a statement that the defendant was found guilty of plotting “a serious act of violence threatening state security”
Cairo – Amid the tough times Britain has to face, British Broadcasting Company (BBC) published secret recording that implicates the Bank of England (BoE) in Libor rigging. The recordings date back to 2008 and show that the central bank pressured commercial banks during the financial crisis to push t
In response to the US missile attack against al-Shayrat airbase – controlled by Assad regime- the so-called joint command center (Russia-Iran-Assad) besides other armed groups including the terrorist “Hezbollah” announced that the US attack has crossed “red lines” and “from now on, we will respond f
No future in Syria is possible with regime leader Bashar al-Assad, the G7 foreign ministers insisted on Tuesday. There can be no peace solution for war-torn Syria with Assad in power, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told reporters. The ministers were meeting in Italy as US Secretary of Sta
Aden- Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi has called Yemenis to integrate and unify their efforts in front of all hindrances. “Remember, our greatest party and doctrine is Yemen, which gathers us all with our different spectrums, and our enemy is one; the insurgency, its militias, and those who a
