Few people knew Robert Mabro, who was one of the kindest and most important figures in the oil sector far from government and private companies. The academic passed away on Tuesday while on holiday in Greece. He was one of the most eminent defenders of OPEC in the seventies and eighties and was one
Taif- Prince Khalid Al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz, the Advisor to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Governor of Makkah region, said the Saudi youth was under fierce campaign due to its adherence to the Holy Quran and Sunnah principles. He highlighted King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s directives to suppo
Riyadh- Saudi Defense Ministry spokesman General Ahmed Asiri announced on Wednesday that rebel militias in Yemen were suffering great losses. “The legitimate forces now control 80 percent of Yemeni territories while in March 2015, they had no control on the ground. Also, a large number of Houthi reb
Riyadh-Dr. Sultan al-Sultan, member of the Saudi Consultative Council, described the implementation of the National Transformation Program by maximizing the non-oil revenues as an important and vital stage in the diversification of the Saudi economic resources and the promotion of services quality t
Riyadh, Aden – The World Health Organization (WHO) representative office in Riyadh hailed King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRELIEF) for its support in providing humanitarian and medical assistance for residents of besieged areas in Yemen. In a statement issued on its website earlier
The United Nations yesterday called for a humanitarian truce in the Syrian city of Aleppo, and expressed its fears for the fate of civilians under siege. A member of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces Hisham Marwa said that this is “the least that the United Nations c
The management of the American University of Afghanistan said that the university is expected to reopen today after being closed for a few days in the wake of the kidnapping of two teaching staff. Afghan officials said that one of the victims was Australian and the other was American, and that they
Russia’s Federal Security Service said one of its employees and a soldier were killed in separate incidents on Wednesday after it had thwarted two armed Ukrainian attempts to get saboteurs into Crimea and dismantled a Ukrainian spy network inside the annexed peninsula. The FSB accused Ukrainia
Riyadh-Saudi Ministries of Economy and Finance started adopting a series of initiatives that ensure more non-oil revenues in the Kingdom, a step that aims at boosting Saudi economic durability and power; and leading to making Saudi Arabia a member of the Group of Twenty (G20). In this framework, new
Ankara-A high-ranking diplomatic source revealed a secret plan that was implemented to regain good relations between Russia and Turkey after they had deteriorated with the downing of a Russian Su-24 jet by Turkish F-16s on Nov. 24, 2015, killing the two Russian air force pilots. According to İbrahim
Cairo- Stephen Schwartz has commenced his mission as first U.S. ambassador to Somalia since 1991. Somali Foreign Affairs Ministry said that the appointment of Schwartz is an evidence of the further strengthening of relations between Somalia and the U.S. It is also the clearest sign that Somalia has
British workers on Eurostar trains that run across the English Channel will strike for seven days in August, including a bank holiday weekend, in a dispute over work-life balance, said the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT). 55 members of the RMT union will walk out from 00:01 GMT on Friday 12
Riyadh – As part of the measures the Saudi cabinet had taken to reduce squandering of public money and losses in human lives due to increased number of accidents, a Saudi official confirmed that the decision of the cabinet will be one of the right solutions. Director of the Traffic Department Maj. G
Saudi Arabia condemned and denounced the bombing that targeted a hospital in the city of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province in southwest Pakistan, that resulted in dozens of people being killed or injured. An official source at the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the country’s c
Beirut – The number of Iranian soldiers killed in Aleppo has raised to eight after revealing the death of two senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) officers, Qolam Hussein Mousavii and Ali Nazari. Iranian news websites, including Defapress, announced that eight Iranian military personnel were ki
Jeddah-Houthis, along with their strategic ally, ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh, are in a race against time to legitimatize the coup in Yemen, especially after the failure of Kuwait talks and the return of Saudi-led Arab coalition forces to destroy Houthi strongholds and arms depots in a number
The global economy desperately needed some good news. That’s what it got in the latest U.S. jobs report. Ahead of today’s release of the U.S. employment report for July, the mood was decidedly gloomy, with economic activity slowing in most other advanced countries, the U.K. facing a real
In 1859, the celebrated British author Charles Dickens wrote ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, a famous novel whose events took place in Paris and London during and in the aftermath of the French revolution, and dealt with the plight of the French peasantry under the old nobility. Before that date, however, t
Kuwait- The Kuwaiti government stuck to its decision to hike fuel prices at the beginning of September. The National Assembly, however, insisted on its suggestions with regards to the application mechanism; this was the conclusion of the meeting held on Tuesday between the legislative and executive
London-Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked U.S. President Barack Obama to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued in April that allowed the seizure of two billion dollars worth of Iranian assets to compensate victims of the 1983 Beirut terror attack. While Ahmadinejad said t
