The Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs Ioannis Kasoulidis spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat for more than an hour and a half about the good relations between his country and the Arab region. He also touched on his meeting with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi last month during a visit to Cairo in the presence
Basra-Iraq’s oil exports from southern ports rose to more than 3.230 million barrels per day (bpd) in August, from 3.202 million bpd in July, as crude production increased, the oil ministry said on Thursday. The West Qurna 1 field, developed by Exxon Mobil, and South Oil’s Luhais and Art
Tokyo-On the sidelines of the visit of Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz and Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense to Japan, Minister of Trade and Investment Dr. Majed Bin Abdullah Al Qasabi convened on Friday with a number of officials at Japan International Cooperation
Aden-As governorates are freed from militia-hold in Yemen, they self repair- a major number of security and judicial institutions in southern Yemen have been reinstated and are operational. Brigadier General Saleh Mohammed Al Qamli, head of the Aden criminal investigations unit told Asharq Al-Awsat
New York-Cooking with fire is a technique dating to our prehistoric ancestors, but today it can feel high tech with the many apps that take the guesswork out of grilling. Cooking starts with a recipe, and one of the most sumptuous grilling recipe apps is Photo Cookbook — Barbecue Grilling. It contai
Beijing-The world’s longest glass bridge, over a scenic canyon in China, has been closed less than two weeks after it opened after being overwhelmed by a swarm of visitors. More than 10,000 visitors a day flooded over the Guinness record-setting attraction, overwhelming managers who had planne
Beijing- Minister of Energy Khalid Al-Falih said that his country is ready to meet the increasing demand for energy from China during the upcoming decades, adding that Saudi companies specifically Sabic and Aramco are ready to invest in Chinese regions in partnership with Chinese companies. On the s
Tokyo-Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike described the Saudi Vision 2030 as ambitious, saying it considers the people the most important wealth in the country, an approach that is highly respected given that the oil wealth was for a long time considered the foundation of development. Koike told Asharq Al-A
Tokyo-The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Japan have signed a memorandum of understanding for defense cooperation. Both Saudi Minister of Defense Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Japanese counterpart Minister of Defense Tomomi Inada oversaw the signing which took place on Friday at the minist
Jerusalem-Israel is to host a working group of the International Criminal Court as it weighs whether to probe alleged war crimes in the 2014 Gaza war, an Israeli official said Friday. The group’s arrival “shortly” will be unprecedented, he told Agence France Presse on condition of
Nairobi-Abdulqadir Mumin, a middle-aged Somali-born cleric with a bright orange beard was this week put on a U.S. terror list, accused of heading ISIS in East Africa. Here’s what we know about the man, and the threat he poses. Mumin was born in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland and
Irbil-Brawls peaked within the Iraqi Kurdistan-based Patriotic Union of Kurdistan(PUK) as Kosrat Rasul Ali – a prominent member of former president Jalal Talabani’s party- alongside a handful of bloc members announced forming a new decision-making body for the party. Kosrat Rasul Ali lea
Moscow-Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov, who has ruled the country for very long years, died Friday, the government announced. “Dear compatriots, it is with huge grief in our hearts that we announce to you the death of our dear president,” a state TV presenter said, reading an
Luanda-As the price of oil rose earlier this decade, this capital city did as well. Glass skyscrapers soared above the rubble of a 27-year civil war. American pop stars such as Mariah Carey were flown in to play private concerts. Luanda would become, its government announced, “a new Dubai.” But as o
France’s satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, victim of a deadly attack by extremists in 2015 for its irreverent humor, received harsh criticism by Italians on Friday for portraying victims of an earthquake that killed almost 300 people as different types of pasta. The town’s mayor, Sergio Pirozz
Lebanon indicted two Syrian intelligence officers on Friday in connection with twin bombings at mosques in Tripoli in 2013, state media said, the deadliest attack in the city since the end of Lebanon’s civil war in 1990. The two blasts, at the Sunni Muslim Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in the nor
The Turkish military announced on Friday killing 27 members of the barred Kurdish PKK militant group in air strikes and land operations in the southeast of the country. Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim earlier said the group had squandered the chance for a political peace process, after it lau
New proposals made by the biggest party in Belgium’s coalition government the New Flemish Alliance has led to divisions at a time when parties in government need to work together in the face of terrorist threats, especially in the wake of the attacks that targeted Brussels in March and that killed 3
A member of the Syrian High Negotiations Committee (HNC) said that the Syrian opposition has decided to reveal its plans for a political transition in the country to help end the war that has been going on for more than five years during a meeting for ministers of countries supporting the political
Cairo- Celebrating the 47th year marking the Colonel Muammar Gaddafi-led 1969 Libyan coup d’état, two youths were caught up in an argument as to which flag stands best to commemorate the event. The 1969 coup in Libya, also known as the al-Fateh Revolution or the September 1 Revolution, was a m
