Two years after their dramatic finale in Lisbon Portugal, both Spanish major league teams Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are scheduled to go head to head once again this Saturday, playing for the UEFA Champions League title at the Stadio San Siro in Milan, Italy. It’s the second time in three
London-What’s the length of a second? Scientists continue to ask themselves this question because no matter how accurately time is measured, there would still be an error of about a nanosecond every 30 days. Researchers in Germany said in a paper published in the journal Optica that the second becom
Beirut-The U.S. assistant secretary for terrorist financing at the Treasury Department, Daniel Glaser, has informed Lebanese leaders about his country’s stance with regards to a law adopted by Congress that bans financial transactions with the so-called Hezbollah for being a terrorist group. Glaser
Beirut-Discussions on which electoral law should be adopted in the parliamentary elections that are set to take place in June 2017 took the spotlight from the presidential crisis after Lebanon’s politicians failed to reach a breakthrough over the Baabda Palace vacuum. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri
Gulf countries and Russia have agreed to work together to prevent and avert terrorist acts through international cooperation, fully recognising the central role that the United Nations plays according to its charter and completely implementing the relevant Security Council resolutions, especially re
The best news so far this year is that oil prices have risen reaching $50 and few cents per barrel. Prices were expected to continue declining to around $20, thus expanding the economic crisis and shaking not only petroleum-exporting countries but also the region. Moreover, this rise in the oil pric
A leader of a military Kurdish faction announced that the city of Raqqa will be annexed to the federal system that the Kurds established in northern Syria after it is liberated from ISIS. In statements quoted by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, a representative of the Democratic Union Party (PYD
The poor rickshaw pullers and migrant laborers in India’s capital have found an escape of their daily hardships and struggle into a world of Bollywood’s love and romance; through a makeshift cinema under the 140-year-old double-decker bridge over the Yamuna river. The cinema shows 4 films a day, peo
Riyadh-Yemeni government delegation to Kuwait peace talks sent more written proposals and visions to U.N. envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed regarding the implementation of U.N. resolution 2216; coinciding with optimistic and reassuring proposals on the progression of talks. Only two days after
The Iranian delegation in charge of discussing Hajj arrangements for Iranians with Saudi Arabia failed to attend a meeting which was scheduled to take place in the city of Jeddah yesterday. The final agreement that would have allowed 63,000 Iranians to perform the Hajj pilgrimage was due to be signe
Barack Obama on Friday paid tribute to the 140,000 people killed by the world’s first atomic bomb attack, becoming the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima. He also sought to bring global attention to his unfulfilled vision of a world without nuclear weapons. “Death fell fro
The United States and Vietnam have complicated the strategic outlook for China over the disputed South China Sea. For instance, Obama’s last trip to Asia was remarkably highlighted by the historic lifting of Washington’s arms embargo on Vietnam, with the latter repeatedly insisting it was not
A French naval ship carrying specialist probes designed to detect black box pinger signals has arrived to the search area where the EgyptAir jet is believed to have crashed last week as search teams in the Mediterranean have picked up a beacon believed to be from the aircraft. A week after the Airbu
Roche got a big boost on Friday following a successful clinical trial testing its new blood cancer drug, Gazyva, thus bracing visions for a new medicine that will be pivotal as the Swiss company fights the threat of biosimilar competition. Gazyva proved to be considerably better than its older drug
About 7 million cars equipped with Takata Corp (7312.T) air bag inflators without a drying agent are to be recalled by March 2019, announced Japan’s transport ministry on Friday; bringing the total recalled in the country to 19.6 million cars. Japan’s statement may further increase Takat
Mahe Drysdale, five time world rowing champion and bronze medalist at the Beijing Olympics, has returned after a long vacation, fully ready and refreshed to defend his single sculls title in Rio later this year. Drysdale took 2013 off to “refresh his mind and body” and tick off some thin
New York, Beirut- U.N. special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura told the Security Council on Thursday that there will be no new round of Syria talks for at least two or three weeks. “He briefed on his intention to start the next round of talks as soon as feasible but certainly not within the
Following a rampage that left 14 people dead in San Bernardino, key U.S. lawmakers promised to pursue a law demanding technology companies to grant law enforcement agencies a “back door” to encrypted communications and electronic devices, such as the iPhone used by one of the shooters. H
London-The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and Syrian Network for Human Rights have issued a report on Syrian refugee children in Jordan who are forced to work. According to the report, it is estimated that at least 60,000 children from Syria are forced to work long hours at low wages to hel
London-As New York billionaire Donald Trump sew up the number of delegates needed to clinch the (Republican Party) GOP nomination, U.S. President Barack Obama slammed him on the sidelines of a Group of Seven advanced economies summit in Japan. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nominatio
