Washington – “Thank you”, tweeted US President Donald Trump in his first remark following a pacifying address to the Congress on Tuesday – a message intended to express the president’s appreciation to positive coverage by US and international media of his first official Congress speech. Trump addres
Jakarta-Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud said on Wednesday that challenges currently facing the world, mainly the phenomenon of terrorism, necessitate that all parties deepen dialogue, and intensify efforts to confront them. Speaking after holding official talks wi
Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo on Wednesday held official talks broaching shared ties at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta. At the outset of the meeting, the Indonesian President welcomed the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, labeling the visit as his
From the security meetings in Bonn, Munich and Baku, to the French and German elections, following Britain’s Brexit vote and Trump’s election, the world looks worried, anxious and different. Is it a crisis of priorities, or a problem of concepts? Are we still capable of coming up with a new definiti
Oil rates registered a substantial increase on Wednesday as optimism flooded the market in response to OPEC members sticking to a cut in production. The rise in prices happened despite United States production rocketing on a gain oriented approach. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countri
Syrian regime air forces “deliberately” bombed and shelled a humanitarian convoy, killing 14 aid workers and halting relief operations, UN investigators said on Wednesday. Syrian and Russian forces conducted daily air strikes on rebel-held eastern Aleppo between July and its fall on Dece
Moscow- Employees of the Federal Security Service (FSB) detained an ISIS militant who was preparing a terrorist attack against security forces in the Samara region, Russia. The detainee said that he planned to attack a police vehicle, seize their weapons and “continue their terrorist acts,” accordin
The United States on Wednesday called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to drop its “obsession with Israel” amidst reports on the Trump administration reviewing its participation in the body. In a speech before the Geneva-based council, U.S. envoy Erin Barclay said the United States’
Gaza- United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov arrived Tuesday morning in the Gaza Strip. Mladenov, accompanied by six delegates, arrived in Gaza via the Israel-controlled Beit Hanun (Erez) border-crossing. He met with UN officials, ministers from the go
Algeria – Criminal Court of Algiers on Monday sentenced Chouaib Oultache to capital punishment for the murder of former Police Chief Ali Tounsi, on 25 February 2010 at the headquarters of the police directorate. The defendant was found guilty for premeditated homicide against Tounsi, attempted homic
Cairo – Libyan activists mourned Abdul Raziq al-Baraasi, the last comrade of Libyan resistance leader against Italian colonization Omar al-Mukhtar. He died in al-Baydaa city in east Libya at the age of 110. Baraasi participated in the resistance against the Italian colonization during the second dec
Tunisia, London- “Cowardly” Tunisian security forces let down the victims of a shooting at a beach hotel, making “deliberate and unjustifiable” delays in their journey to the scene, a UK inquiry found on Tuesday. A gunman killed 30 Britons and eight others on a Tunisian resort in June 2015, having w
Twin suicide attacks, claimed by the Taliban, rocked the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, targeting two security compounds. At least three people were killed and 38 wounded in the carnage, which underscores rising insecurity in Afghanistan from the resurgent Taliban, whose insurgents are intens
Cairo- Officials, experts and clerics partaking in the international meeting in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday reaffirmed that excommunicating other religions contradicts the principals of forgiveness promoted by faith and international conventions. Extremism was conceded to be the greatest threat to coexi
Kabul- Eleven Afghan police taskforce members were shot dead at a checkpoint in the southern province of Helmand, officials said Tuesday, in the latest so-called “insider attack”. An Afghan policeman linked to the Taliban was the one to open fire. A local news agency reported that the pe
U.S.-backed Iraqi army units on Wednesday took control of the last major road out of western Mosul that had been in ISIS’ hands as the minister of displacement and migration said 26,000 people have fled in the 10 days since the operation was launched to retake the city’s western side. The army’
Ramallah – Since I met him a few months ago, nothing has changed in Mahmoud el-Aloul’s entourage even though he has been elected the deputy party chief of Fatah, which means he could become leader of the movement in case of any surprises, and consequently president of Palestinian Authority. On our w
Riyadh-Governor of the Electricity and Cogeneration Regulatory Authority (ECRA) Dr. Abdullah Mohammed al-Shehri revealed that a study is being conducted to predict the load in the Kingdom for the coming 10 years, due to the decline in consumption during 2016. Shehri said that the peak load, which re
Beirut-Terror group ISIS tightened its grip over swathes of land in rural western Daraa, Syria, recording a sizable advance against rebel-held areas. The progress comes ten days after an ISIS-staged counterattack in south Syria. Last week, ISIS’ offshoot ‘Jaysh Khaled bin Walid’ launched an offensiv
Beirut – Civil society organizations are looking positively to all the political pledges that are being made in Lebanon on the importance of empowering the role of women in society. They are simultaneously waiting what will come of these stances, especially since past experiences have not been
