Alphabet Inc’s Google, the American multinational conglomerate, appealed an order on Thursday from the French data protection authority to permanently take down certain web search results globally in response to a European privacy ruling, mounting a fight on the territorial reach of EU law. Go
Tunisian special forces have killed a senior commander of an ISIS affiliate during clashes with the group in a central, mountainous region as part of the authorities’ crackdown on terrorists, the Tunisian Ministry of Defense said on Thursday. “After monitoring terrorist elements in the Mghila
Baghdad- The incident of protesters storming the Iraqi parliament is still vivid as is still complicating the political crisis. The situation became more complicated because the Parliament is divided, the Kurdish bloc is boycotting, and there are ministers who haven’t take the constitutional oath. F
PSA Peugeot Citroën, the second largest car manufacturer in Europe, is set to invest 700 million euros ($785 million) in Spain over the next four years. The French car maker is planning to produce a new car in the country from 2020, according to a company spokesman. 640 million euros will go to PSA&
Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party, or AKP, formally tapped on Thursday Minister of Transport Binali Yildirim as its candidate to be the country’s next prime minister, a move that would give the president greater powers. Yildirim is a founding member of the AKP, which was f
Austria is few steps near becoming the first European Union country to elect a far-right head of state, which came as the result of rising concerns in regard of living standards and Europe’s migrant crisis. The anti-Islam and Eurosceptic Freedom Party (FPO) won more than a third of the vote in
Change is taking place at Shanghai’s leading Children’s Sports School Pudong New Area, a small cog in a state-run machine that has stirred out Chinese Olympic champions for three and a half decades. China’s sports system has been extremely prosperous since the country returned to t
Khobar-Saudi Arabia’s crude oil stockpiles fell in March reaching the lowest level in 18 months as the kingdom kept shipping crude to meet customer demand while keeping a lid on production at about 10.2 million barrels a day. Official statistics that were issued on Wednesday showed that Saudi Arabia
More than 150 climbers have scaled Mount Everest on a crowded day on top of the world’s highest peak because of improved weather conditions, an official in Nepal said on Thursday. Mountaineering Department official Gyanendra Shrestha said it was hard to say exactly the number of people who hav
Cairo- Libyan Speaker Aguila Saleh said in an exclusive interview with Asharq al Awsat that his dispute with the Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya, Fayez al-Sarraj, is not personal but rather about the constitutional procedures. Saleh said that the formation of the Presidential Council i
The International Monetary Fund supported on Thursday Riyadh’s sweeping economic reform plan as announced in “Vision 2030” to reduce the kingdom’s dependence on oil exports. Late last month, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced the steps would include subsidy cuts, tax rises
Beirut- The optimism expressed by U.N. Special Envoy to Syria Staffan di Mistura when speaking of the regional scenery every now and then, is no longer capable of hiding the pessimistic atmosphere that dominates the diplomatic and political circles. These circles are expecting what’s worse after the
The Turkish army said on Thursday a military helicopter that crashed a week ago, during clashes that killed eight soldiers and two pilots, may have been brought down by Kurdish militants with a ground-to-air missile. If confirmed, it would be the first known usage in recent years of such weaponry by
U.S. president Barak Obama who in 2009 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize partly for making nuclear nonproliferation a centerpiece of his agenda, will become in few days the very first American president to visit Hiroshima. Survivors of the world’s first atomic bomb crisis, Aug. 6, 1945, welcomed the
Abu Dhabi- “The campaign launched by the coalition and government forces in Yemen to clear al-Mukalla Governorate has revealed the presence of large amounts of heavy arms and high explosive ammunitions hidden at government headquarters or other places and were used by al-Qaeda militants before they
U.S. House Republicans on Wednesday pushed through a $622.1 million bill to control the spread of the Zika virus, setting up challenging negotiations with the Senate, and the White House which has requested a lesser funding. The vote, which passed the Republican-controlled House 241 to 184, broke mo
Cairo, Ramallah, Tel Aviv- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry lauded on Wednesday Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s initiative to revive the Palestinian-Israeli peace process, stressing during a few hour visit to Cairo the importance of the role that Egypt plays as a regional partner. His tr
Washington- Pentagon spokesman Matthew Allen said that ISIS has lost control in several areas of Iraq and Syria, stressing that the organization has been suffering from progressive defeats and hasn’t carried out effective attacks in months. Allen told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that “compared to the
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo carrying 66 people disappeared from radar early Thursday morning, the airline said, amid fears that it has crashed into the sea as Egypt’s Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said it was too early to rule out any explanation for the incident, including terrorism
ANKARA- Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) revealed on Wednesday that many Iranians have volunteered to fight in Syria in support of al-Assad regime, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. Shi’ite-dominated Iran is Assad’s main regional ally and has provided him with
