Washington – U.S. Senate Barbara Boxer sponsored a legislation to abolish the Electoral College in the presidential elections. The California senate said that the Electoral College is the only office in the land where you win and you may not win. “In my lifetime, I have seen two elections where the
New York, London- A U.N. committee on Tuesday decried Iran’s violations of human rights, mainly the high frequency of executions, the discrimination policy against minorities and the violation of women’s rights. The General Assembly’s human rights committee called for more accountability and u
Riyadh-Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received a phone call on Wednesday from President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou. Issoufou expressed his deep condolences and sympathy on the death of Prince Turki bin Abdulaziz. Niger President stressed the solidarity of his co
Jordan Pickford (Sunderland) Last season, after returning from a loan stint at Preston, the young goalkeeper had to continue learning his trade by sitting on a bench and contemplating how he might displace Vito Mannone. On-field action was restricted to three appearances during which he conceded nin
Riyadh- King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) signed on Wednesday three executive programs to support projects of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Syria, Palestine and Ethiopia with an amount of USD12 million. This aid is in tandem with the guidelines of the Custodian o
Manama– King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has stressed the strong link between Bahrain and the values of tolerance and acceptance. In a message addressed to Bahrainis and residents of Bahrain as the world celebrates the International Day for Tolerance, the King said that the values of tolerance and acce
Beirut – Lebanese President Michel Aoun received an official invitation from his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to visit Egypt. Aoun met on Wednesday with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry at the Baabda Palace. He said afterwards that he would visit Egypt the soonest possible, stres
Manama– King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, the Supreme Commander attended the conclusion of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) joint-security exercise “Arabian Gulf Security 1” which started on October 27 in Bahrain. The final ceremony was also attended by: Saudi Crown Prince, First Deputy Prime Ministe
Brussels – Military personnel organized protests for the first time since 14 years in Brussels against pensions and wages laws, according to the Belgian Army Syndicates. Around 10,000 military members protested near the train station in west Brussels; they wandered streets causing disturbance
Washington- The United States House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday for the extension of the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) for another ten years. ISA, which was first adopted in 1996, punishes investments in Iran’s energy industry and deters the country’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. Th
Beirut-The obstacles facing the formation of Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri’s new government are being removed one step at a time after conditions placed by Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat have been likely met. Jumblat and the head of the Lebanese Democratic Party, Talal Ar
Jeddah – The Iranian government has declined an official invitation to participate in an emergency meeting held by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on the level of foreign ministers to denounce Yemen’s Houthi militias attack against holy sites in Mecca. Thursday’s OIC meeting comes upon a rec
Riyadh-GCC ministers of commerce have met at the 54th meeting of the GCC Commercial Cooperation Committee held at the council’s headquarters in Riyadh. Participants discussed joint efforts in the economic and development fields. Saudi Minister of Commerce and Investment Majed al Qasabi stressed on t
Benghazi- Again, electricity was cut in one of Benghazi’s stores; power outage has been very common in Libya; it could last for few hours and for few days sometimes. The majority of merchants and officials in the eastern region have bought electricity generators. However, the western side of the cou
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Premier and Interior Minister arrived to the Gulf’s Kingdom of Bahrain on Wednesday. The Crown Prince Mohammed is scheduled to attend the final military drill for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for Arab States security forces,
Amidst the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s warnings against the efforts of ISIS to recruit young Muslim Americans and the reassurances made by New York Police that the public would remain safe during the upcoming Thanksgiving holidays, a federal court in Minnesota sentenced three Somali-American m
The Syrian regime and Russia resumed military and air operations in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo yesterday, a month after they were suspended. While Moscow insisted that the large scale operation carried out by its forces “does not include Aleppo”, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Hu
German and U.S. employers, workers, consumers and farmers would definitely benefit from the free trade deal being negotiated between the European Union and the United States, U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. “An agreement that links our economies more close
Days after the former US President George W Bush junior was elected, the Russian leader Vladimir Putin sought to arrange a meeting with the then President-elect but Bush’s team at the time delayed the meeting for months. The meeting between Bush and Putin took place in 2001. After the meeting, Bush
Moscow announced on Wednesday its determination to formally withdraw its signature from the founding statute of the International Criminal Court, claiming that the tribunal has failed to live up to hopes of the international community. Russia had signed in 2000 the Rome Statute of the ICC, which was
