Jeddah- Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Commerce and Investment urged all companies and institutions to install electronic systems to run financial transactions and billings as an alternative to the traditional ways of settling and arranging bills. The e-system would speed up processing bills and reduce
The Summer Olympic Games kicked off Friday night in an opening ceremony headlined by supermodel Gisele Bundchen at the fabled Maracana stadium. Brazil unfurled the event with a gutted budget, a reflection of Brazil’s tough economic times which nonetheless triggered joy and amusement among the
Athens-Archeologists have found at least 80 skeletons, their wrists clamped by iron shackles, in a mass grave in an ancient Greek cemetery in central Athens. They are the victims of a mass execution. But who they were, how they got there and why they appear to have been buried with a measure of resp
The Syrian Democratic Forces – a coalition of Arab and Kurd fighters- on Saturday seized the ISIS stronghold of Manbij, two months after launching an operation to capture the strategic city in northern Syria, a monitor said. SDF, which includes the powerful Kurdish YPG militia and Arab fighter
London- Disputes ran deeper among officials in Iran after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani made clashing stances on the Iran nuclear deal. Khamenei’s Mashhad representative, Ahmed Alm Alhoda, on Friday hinted that Rouhani is short to naïve when promoting Iranian “pride” drawn
Paris’ Eiffel Tower was on Friday evacuated in error after an employee mistook a safety drill for a real incident, a police source said, as security fears compelled the authorities to cancel two main events. “It was a safety exercise drill, the sort that is done dozens of times a week, w
Donald Trump reversed course Friday and endorsed House Speaker Paul Ryan for re-election in an effort to steer his White House campaign back into favor with his party’s establishment after relentless criticism from his own Republican Party. Facing sinking poll numbers and desperate to reset a
Ankara- Turkey has issued an arrest warrant for U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen over the failed coup. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the U.S. will be held responsible in case Gulen fled its territories. In the warrant, Gulen stands accused of “ordering the July 15 c
Beirut, Ankara: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu ruled out on Friday the possibility of forming a Turkish-Iranian-Russian alliance to solve the Syrian crisis, but nevertheless he admitted that Ankara was exchanging some ideas with Moscow and Tehran concerning the conflict. Cavusoglu said du
Washington, Islamabad-The Pentagon will not pay Pakistan $300 million in military reimbursements after U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter decided not to tell Congress that Pakistan was taking adequate action against the Haqqani network, a U.S. official said. Relations between the two countries hav
Cairo- Egypt’s former Mufti Dr. Ali Gomaa has survived an attempt on his life, after gunmen opened fire at him in a Cairo suburb on Friday, missing the cleric but wounding a bodyguard and a Mosque labor worker, the interior ministry said. Dr. Gomaa’s office spokesman told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper t
Washington-U.S. President Barack Obama has made a rare visit to the Pentagon where he held a press conference, vowing to crush ISIS. ISIS is “inevitably going to be defeated,” Obama said. But he predicted that the terrorist networks it spawns are likely to continue trying to launch assaults after th
Adan- Houthi rebels announced on Friday their intention to form a government in the capital Sana’a, which has been under their control since late 2014. Houthi media outlets quoted Houthi politburo official Abdulmalak al-Ojari as saying that following the establishment of the Houthi governing council
The story of Iranian dissident Shahram Amiri is still unclear. Why did he return to Iran from the United States if he really had important secrets that exposed his life to threats? Why did Iranian officials receive him with warm and extensive media coverage at the airport if they had evil plans for
David Moyes did not need long to consider the question. Sunderland’s manager, their fifth in three and a half turbulent years, had just been asked if he would be happy to finish fourth-bottom of the Premier League next spring. “Yes, I think I’d take it,” he said, before adding an important caveat, e
With the political conventions over, both candidates should be hard at work on something we’re not going to see much of until November: the presidential transition. It’s the setting in motion of the actual administrations that Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump would run. In fact, August 1 was “m
Erbil-ISIS executed a number of residents while trying to flee the organization’s controlled town of Hawijah in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, Iraqi official and security sources said on Friday. ISIS had detained thousands of civilians who were fleeing the town, driving them to an identified loc
Government figures on Friday showed that the number of jobs on US payrolls increased by 255,000 in July. The added employments proved lower than revised figures showing 292,000 jobs added in June, but well above the 24,000 jobs added in May. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9 percent as more
As a wave of unrest continues over the disputed region of Kashmir, Indian security forces opened fire on protesters on Friday, killing three and raising the death toll to 55. The recent protests erupted in July over the killing of Burhan Wani, 22, a commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen militant group,
Turkish plans to restructure its armed forces are aimed at eliminating any chances of another coup attempt. The changes brought about by the military overhaul will be in line with the structure and spirit of the NATO alliance, Turkey’s defense minister said on Friday. President Tayyip Erdogan
