Amman- Saudi Arabian relief campaigns, reducing the anguish of the Syrian people in light of the civil war ravaging their country, have proceeded with efforts spent within its sustenance relief program. Food aid containers were distributed among Syrians taking refuge in Jordan, under the mission hea
Today Emma Morano is the oldest person alive, after the world lost 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones on Thursday. Morano is also believed to be the last surviving person who was born in the 1800s, born on Nov. 29, 1899, 4+ months after Jones. She received the news Friday, which upon hearing she sa
Riyadh – U.N. sponsored Yemeni peace talks, currently held in Kuwait, have come into their fourth week of sessions with no evident results -relative to the set work agenda- surfacing. The sole achievements so far lie in the partial understandings arrived at on the suit of insurgency-held captives, h
BERLIN – German companies are considered among the major biggest foreign investors in the Britain, with 2,500 subsidiaries embracing around 500,000 British employees in different sectors; according to German Industry UK. Today, German firms are scaling back their investment in Britain ahead of
The Turkish military said Saturday that its warplanes have carried out nine airstrikes against Kurdish rebels in the southeast of the country and northern Iraq. The state-run Anadolu Agency cited the military as saying the warplanes destroyed 98 targets Friday of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’
Cannes- Many written and presented film scripts, which fail to find a producer, are marshaled and stacked into the film industry’s keeping drawers. Jodie Foster’s thriller “Money Monster” did not make it to big-screen production right away, first written by Alan Di Fiore in 2013, the script was left
The United States is increasingly concerned about the potential for an economic and political meltdown in Venezuela as a result of a growing political confrontation at a time of triple-digit inflation, widespread food shortages and deterioration of its oil sector, senior U.S. intelligence officials
WASHINGTON – A new funding package was introduced as a solution to the spending bill of funding Zika. Next week U.S. Senators will have the chance to vote for one of different proposed options that best fund the White House’s request for $1.9 billion. Meanwhile, the bipartisan deal which was agreed
Mustafa Badreddine, the top commander of so-called Hezbollah, was killed in Syria by insurgent shelling, the party announced on Saturday, vowing to continue its involvement in Syria’s civil war. The group said the blast that killed Badreddine near the Damascus International Airport was caused
Rabat-Morocco’s authorities have thwarted a “dangerous” terrorist plot similar to the May 16 events that Casablanca witnessed in 2003. The Interior Ministry announced on Friday the arrest of a Chadian national affiliated with ISIS and unraveled a “dangerous” plot to attack Western
DUBAI-Kuwait’s deputy foreign minister Khaled Jarallah called for a freeze in oil production, and said Iran must learn from the market, noting that there is no space to support further increase, state agency news Kuna reported on Saturday. Jarallah’s statements came while the latter along with actin
London- Grave disputes are sprawling between Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, informed sources located in Iran revealed. The rift is said to have started over the subject of managing internal and foreign affairs. Clashes peaked over the last few days, especia
WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama and leaders of five Nordic nations presented a united front against Russia on Friday, calling for sanctions against it to continue and further expressing concern about Moscow’s military buildup in the Baltics. All 6 leaders met at the White House for Russia-f
Beirut, Tel Aviv- The top military commander of the so-called Hezbollah or the “ghost” was killed in an explosion near the Syrian capital of Damascus, in mysterious circumstances that the party has not revealed yet. Hezbollah announced the death of Mustafa Badreddine, who is one of the accused in fo
So-called Hezbollah’s involvement in the Syrian war and more recently in Iraq risks a spillover of sectarian tensions into Lebanon where ISIS and al-Nusra Front are reported to be expanding, U.N. envoy Terje Roed-Larsen warned Friday. Roed-Larsen expressed serious concern that not only have He
Beirut- The Lebanese government is facing two choices, either to commit to the U.S. sanctions against the so-called Hezbollah or expose the country to full-scale sanctions that might threaten its banking system. The cabinet tried to cause the least damage possible when it tasked Prime Minister Tamma
Members of the U.N. Security Council expressed anger at all the recent attacks targeting civilians and amenities in Syria including medical facilities, in addition to all indiscriminate attacks. In a press statement released Thursday, members of the council stressed that these measures may be amount
A summit dedicated to tackling corruption hosted by the British Prime Minister David Cameron in London yesterday culminated in international pledges to prepare and publish registers of who really owns companies in a collective effort to crack down on money laundering. Before the beginning of the sum
One of Iran’s chief features has always been the existence of several hundred small and medium towns each with its distinct characteristics and long history. For example, imagine you are in Aqda, on the edge of the Lut Desert; you know that you cannot be anywhere else in universe. It is like nowhere
NEW DELHI/BEIJING – Nissan has invested strongly in countries as Indonesia, deploying targeted models and beefing up distribution in Southeast Asia’s largest car market. Three decades later, it revived low-cost brand Datsun in 2012. Though it only has 2.5 market shares in Indonesia, compared w
