US President Donald Trump will make his first official state visit to Britain in 2018, a senior British government source revealed according to Sky News on Tuesday. The government had initially said the visit would take place later this year, but media has reported the trip could be postponed for va
Eight people shot dead in a house in Thailand after gunmen held them hostage, police said on Tuesday. The victims include at least one child, added the police of the incident in a country where although guns are common, such mass shootings are rare. The attack took place in the southern province of
Q. On a computer, you can use Google’s reverse image search feature in several ways, like dragging and dropping an image file in the search box or right-clicking on an image file on a web page. But how can you do reverse searches for pictures using a mobile device? A. Third-party apps and sites for
Q. Is there a way to always show the battery-life indicator in the Windows 10 taskbar? A. If the battery icon has retreated into the hidden icons section of the taskbar’s Notifications area or disappeared from view altogether, you can restore it quickly. Right-click the taskbar area and choose Taskb
London- Would Rachel Yankey like to become the first female manager in the Premier League? “Look, it’s not an ambition of mine. It’s not as if I sit there and think ‘that’s what I want to do’. If I was good enough to go in there and get a job … but right now, I’m […]
London- Romelu Lukaku has been an obvious transfer target ever since he turned down the lucrative contract Everton offered him in March, doggies in shop windows have been less conspicuously for sale, yet when reports began to emerge that Manchester United were confident of a £75m deal it still came
Washington – The conflict in Syria has inflicted significant damage to Syria’s physical capital stock with 7 percent housing stock destroyed and 20 percent partially damaged, according to a report published by the World Bank on Monday. According to the report “The Toll of War: The Economic and Socia
The ISIS terrorist group acknowledged on Tuesday the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi source in the Nineveh province told local media. The details of his death were not disclosed. He added that the group will “soon announce his successor.” The organization had also called on its mi
London– Quds Force Commander Major General Qasem Soleimani reiterated the military role of his troops in Iraq, adding that Iranian military factories worked around the clock to arm Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) after its formation. He added that Iraqi army is on its way to become ideological, po
Riyadh – The leadership of the Saudi-led Arab Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen confirmed its keenness on the humanitarian aid carried out by UN organizations in Yemen, in accordance with the principles specified by international law. In a statement issued on Monday, the leadership warn
Riyadh – Houthi and Saleh militias violated human rights 971 times during June where they killed 180 civilians, injured 205 and assaulted 28 others, according to Yemeni Alliance to Monitor Human Rights Violations. Rassd News Network added that the violations, including 236 abductions, 33 forcible mi
Tel Aviv – Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman urged the US President’s Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt on Monday to give up seeking a bilateral peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. “The Trump administration should abandon its pursu
British Prime Minister Theresa May has turned to the opposition as the country gears up to exit the European Union. The appeal comes nearly a year after May took office, and just over a month after she suffered a setback from voters in a snap election. She plans to use a speech on Tuesday to [&helli
London– UK Prime Minister Theresa May welcomed London’s High Court judgment that rejected a claim by campaigners requesting the halt of Britain’s multi-billion-pound arms sales to Saudi Arabia. “The claimant’s claim for judicial review is dismissed,” announced the High
Brussels- The son of a Dutch preacher residing in Belgium has plotted to carry out an attack that was supposed to target police officers in Verviers, near the borders between Belgium and Netherlands, according to what was revealed by the investigation conducted by the Belgian authorities with a 17 y
London- Around $6 billion left Qatar over June, Qatar Central Bank Governor Sheikh Abdullah Bin Saoud al-Thani said, affirming that the Qatari riyal will continue to be pegged to the US dollar in the future. His statements were made during an interview with CNBC, amidst the Qatari crisis and the boy
Tunis – Head of the opposition Green Tunisia Party Abdelkader Zitouni criticized Prime Minister Youssef al-Chahed’s national unity government’s war on corruption, saying that it is politically motivated. He told Asharq Al-Awsat that “all signs in Tunisia indicate that a new social revolution may tak
Manama– Bahriani Ministry of Interior announced it had arrested a terrorist cell as part of counter-terrorism operations and in continuation of the investigation into the Duraz blast on June 18 during which one policeman was killed and two others seriously injured. The ministry revealed that there i
Jeddah – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) stressed the need to prioritize the issue of fighting terrorism, particularly in countries suffering from the impact of terrorist operations, noting that Saudi Arabia’s recent hosting of the Arab-Islamic-American Summit, with the broad participa
Former businessman Avi Gabbay has been elected on Monday to lead Israel’s main opposition Labor party, defeating longtime politician and former party leader Amir Peretz, the party said in a statement. Gabbay, who only joined the party in December, took 52 percent of the votes in the runoff as it sou
