Abu Dhabi – Eng. Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, UAE’s minister of Economy, has expected that the national economy will achieve a growth rate of between 3.5 to 4 percent in 2017, amid an accelerated activity in vital economic sectors and growth of investment attractiveness, which will lead to ma
Riyadh – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz sent a written message to Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, Emir of State of Kuwait, on firm and deep-rooted brotherly relations between the two countries and their peoples and ways of enhancing them in all fields to serve t
Budapest – The Hungarian parliament on Tuesday adopted a legislation to detain all asylum-seekers in container camps, with Prime Minister Viktor Orban saying the systematic detention will make all of Europe safer from terror attacks. Calling immigration the “Trojan Horse of terrorismR
New Delhi, London- Over 58 per cent of children below five years of age in India are anemic and the country still has high levels of stunting, an official survey said. Data from the National Family Health Survey 2015-16, published in the domestic media on Monday, showed that 58.4 per cent or around
London- The last count of the human losses that Iran suffered in Syria and Iraq until today is around 2,100 casualties, according to an Iranian official. Mohammad Ali Shahidi, the head of Iran’s Foundation of Martyrs and Veteran Affairs, said on Tuesday: “There have been so far some 2,100 mart
Iran, labeling it as an act of ‘injustice’, rebuffed on Tuesday attempts by United States Lawyers to seize its overseas assets as compensation for the victims of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The US Supreme Court ruled last year that $2.1 billion frozen in a Citibank account in New York shou
United States President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban on citizens of Muslim-majority countries is still expected to curtail tourism. Trump on Monday signed a revised executive order banning citizens from six Muslim-majority nations from travelling to the United States but removing Iraq fro
Vice Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz office on Tuesday received New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray MuCully and his accompanying delegation. At the outset of the meeting, the two officials discussed security relations shared between the Kingdom of Sau
Jeddah- Fighting for a powergrab in Yemen intensified, especially between coup militias. Both partaking in a local insurgency, Iran-aligned Houthis and armed loyalists backing ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh went public with the internal conflict among coup militias. Houthi militiamen blatantly
Cairo- Tawfiq al-Hakim, a prominent Egyptian writer, had a dream back in the sixties and it has finally come true. Hakim once said he dreamed of seeing small wooden carriages dragged by clean donkeys in streets, parked in squares and school yards and loaded with magnificent books. Today, this dream
London- The chief of the UN atomic watchdog said on Monday he was confident following a visit to Washington of “very good cooperation” with the United States on Iran’s nuclear deal, despite President Donald Trump’s hawkish comments. “The new US administration has not yet decided what to do about the
London – The Pentagon said on Monday that a strike against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen killed a former detainee from the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “We can confirm the death of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Yasir al-Silmi,” said Navy Captain Jeff Dav
Dubai – PepsiCo Chairman Indra Nooyi underscored the importance of cooperating with governments to discover the best ways that make taxes a solution for governmental topics and social challenges. Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper asked Nooyi, “What is the strategy of PepsiCo during the coming five yea
Washington – FBI Director James B. Comey asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Donald Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Trump’s phones, according to the New York Times. The newspaper said that according to senior American offi
Skiers caught up in an avalanche that struck a popular resort in the French Alps on Tuesday are all safe, and rescuers ended a large search and rescue operation without finding any victims, authorities in the French Alpine resort said. The avalanche swept in shortly before 10 A.M. (0900 GMT) in an o
Riyadh – US Office of Naval Intelligence warned merchant ships traveling between Yemen’s Bab al Mandeb Strait of aquatic mines, while the Yemeni army confirmed it will act quickly to clear the areas of the mines placed by Houthis forces to maintain, local, regional and international navigation. A re
Baghdad- A report released by Iraq’s ministry of planning revealed the disastrous damage done by the gruesome acts of violence and aggression throughout 2004-2016 of fighting terror group ISIS. Overall infrastructure damage, save for that inflicted on the Iraqi Kurdistan region, has been accounted f
London – British security services have foiled 13 potential terror attacks since 2013, according to a senior counter-terrorism official. Assistant commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police Mark Rowley said the problem lies in the fact that many incidents are inspired by ISIS, while al-Qaeda
London- A wide stake of Syrian children could be living in a state of “toxic stress” due to prolonged exposure to the horrors of war, aid group Save the Children said. The research drew on interviews in seven provinces with more than 450 children, teenagers, and adults within the largest
London and Paris – PSA Group, Peugeot-owner, announced on Monday that it reached a deal with General Motors to buy the Opel and Vauxhall brands for $2.3 billion. In addition, PSA will acquire French bank BNP Paribas, financial sector of GM-Europe, for €900 million. The transaction has a total value
