Washington – Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Minister of Defense Mohammed bin Salman reviewed strategies to fight terrorism and other defense issues with US Defense Secretary James Mattis on Thursday in Washington. A statement issued by the Pentagon said both defense officials examined US-Saudi
A teenage student opened fire on Thursday at a high school in southeastern France, wounding up to four people, in an attack carried out after he had watched United States mass shooting videos such as that in Columbine, officials said. “It was total panic,” Achraf, a student in the school
For the first time since the start of the Ukraine crisis, Germany’s Angela Merkel will be visiting Moscow for talks on May 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. The two leaders will hold the first bilateral visit since Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula in 2014. Th
1) New managerial rivalry is developing José Mourinho tends to single out those he considers threats and Antonio Conte, the permanent successor to his crown, is his target of choice. Having spent the buildup suggesting Chelsea play a more defensive style of football than under his stewardship, and t
Before this gets mistaken for a nostalgic lament about the good old days on ITV, it is worth pointing out that BT Sport has done a good job of broadcasting the Champions League since wrenching the rights from Sky in 2013, offering a slick, professional product that looks and feels the part. Lengthy
Riyadh-Special UN Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed stressed his belief that a real solution for the Yemeni crisis would be found within the coming few weeks based on real and sustainable foundations. “We know today that a solution is close. We know that a solution in Yemen will be built on m
A letter bomb exploded Thursday at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) office in Paris, injuring the female employee who opened it in the face and arms, police said. The letter, which had arrived by mail, exploded as it was opened by a secretary at the institution’s office in an upscale part
Kuwait – A message from Iran was delivered by its ambassador to Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah and it represents a new episode in the series of enhancing intentions carried out by Iranian government to normalize its relations with Gulf States, according to a prominent K
A billion and a half Muslims, roughly a quarter of the world’s population, have been long forced to account for actions carried by extremists who represent no more than the small ratio of one in thousand Muslims. The extremist minority of self-proclaimed Muslims have managed to trick the entire worl
So far, in my ongoing series of columns making the case for implausible ideas, I’ve fixed race relations and solved the problem of a workless working class. So now it’s time to turn to the real threat to the human future: the one in your pocket or on your desk, the one you might be […]
Moscow – Russian security services prevented a terrorist act planned for March 8 to target those attending International Women’s Day event in Moscow, local media said Wednesday. The terrorist attack was planned by a national of Tajikistan, who arrived at a Moscow airport earlier in March, the
Cairo- Saudi giant Aramco is to resume deliveries of oil products to Egypt that have been suspended since last October, the Egyptian petroleum ministry has said. “Currently the timeline for receiving the shipments is being discussed,” the ministry said late on Wednesday. In October, Aram
Iraqi authorities said Thursday that more than 150,000 people have fled fighting in and around west Mosul since security forces launched an operation to retake it from jihadists last month. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) released displacement figures on Wednesday indicating that
A Greek far-left group on Thursday claimed it had sent an explosive-filled envelope to the German finance ministry in Berlin. “We claim responsibility for sending a booby-trapped parcel to the German finance minister,” the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei group said in a statement posted on an
Conakry (Guinea) – Guinean President Alpha Condé, whose country currently assumes the rotating presidency of the African Union, said problems facing the Dark Continent were mainly due to “foreign interference.” In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, Condé said he was fully convinced that Af
Beirut- Children have suffered the most in Syria’s six-year war, UNICEF has said, as a new study revealed that 2016 was the most lethal for health workers in the war-torn country. “For unaccompanied and separated children the situation is even harsher than for other children, and for chi
Riyadh – China’s Commerce Minister Zhong Shan asserted that the visit of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to China would boost the comprehensive strategic partnership between Beijing and Riyadh. “Leaders of both countries are expected to sign major
London – All humans together consume an estimated 400 million tons of meat and fish annually, as reported by researches in Springer’s journal The Science of Nature. The world’s spiders eat annually: between 400 and 800 million tons of insects, springtails, and other invertebrates,
Damam- Saudi interior ministry announced that security officer Fahid Qaeid al Rowaili was shot dead after a police shootout near a Qatif’s central hospital, in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. Rowaili’s body was moved to the eastern province’s Jawf region, his birthplace. The security patrol came un
Taiz- A UN-backed report on Yemen has found that 60 percent of Yemenis, or 17 million people, are in “crisis” or “emergency” food situations, 20 percent more than in June, saying there was no full-blown famine. The World Food Program said in a statement on Wednesday that the
