Stock markets in the Gulf were mixed in early trade on Sunday, as Saudi Arabia’s bourse propped up by commodity-related shares while banks weighed on United Arab Emirates indexes. Shares in Saudi Arabian Mining Co jumped 9.5 percent, their daily limit, after the miner reshuffled its board reshuffle
Riyadh- U.N. Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed pointed out that certain positive signs were surfacing atop the question on whether there would be a political understanding for the war-torn country. However, he still confirmed the presence of hurdles and unfettered desecrations along th
Syria’s rebel-held Aleppo was shelled Saturday with nearly 30 air strikes, as a temporary “calm” declared by Syria’s military took effect around Damascus and in the northwest. It was the ninth day of monstrous bombardments in Aleppo, which has borne the brunt of augmented fighting
Baghdad-Yesterday, Iraq officially has rested on the edge of the abyss, as the capital Baghdad witnessed a day of utter chaos after thousands of protestors barged into the Green Zone. Muqtada al-Sadr, Shi’ite leader of the Sadrist movement, was the one to call onto the demonstrations. The masses mar
As President Barack Obama draws closer to exit, speculation is rife about likely changes in US foreign policy under his successor. Guesswork on that score isn’t easy. One problem is that, because foreign policy has not featured much in the current campaign, there are few indications of what th
Syrian regime warplanes deliberately chose their targets; hospitals and civilian neighbourhoods in their vicinity were bombed violently and did not face resistance because residents are unable to defend themselves on the ground due to the international embargo. The regime has repeatedly carried out
The Old Bailey (the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales) yesterday sentenced James Fairweather to 27 years in prison for murdering Saudi PHD student Nahid Almanea two years ago. Nahid Almanea, a Saudi PhD student at the Colchester campus of the University of Essex, was killed while she was w
Beirut- Former Prime Minister and Future Movement leader Saad Hariri said that the negative interference of Iran in regional cases makes establishing an upright relationship with the country. Hariri, after meeting with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, confirmed that he has not visited Mos
ST. LOUIS – Washington Nationals Manager Dusty Baker gathered his position players in the dining room of the visitor’s clubhouse at Busch Stadium before Friday’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals. It is not uncommon for Nationals pitchers and hitters to meet before the beginning
A Russian- American agreement to re-establish the ceasefire in the Syrian regime strongholds of Latakia and Damascus was announced yesterday. Aleppo, a stronghold of the opposition that has been brutally shelled recently by the Syrian regime forces, was excluded from the ceasefire. The shelling in A
LONDON – Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn who is a close ally of party veteran Livingstone stated late on Friday that he would recommend a new code of conduct explicitly banning anti-semitism and other forms of racism. Noting that Britain’s opposition Labor party has launched an inquiry
The Los Angeles Lakers as a team announced on Friday night that Luke Walton has agreed to coach them, and they expressed how happy they were to have him back, noting that the Lakers dismissed Byron Scott as coach Sunday. Through a statement in a press release General Manager Mitch Kupchak highlighte
Baghdad- Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper obtained information from Iraqi intelligence sources that the case file on the kidnapped Qataris who went missing last year and were taken from Iraq, now rest in the hands of the Lebanon-based Hezbollah. The terrorist group is linked directly to the kidnappers, and
Riyadh – According to the security spokesman of the Ministry of Interior (MOI) MajGen Mansour Al-Turki, Saudi security forces thwarted, yesterday, an eminent terrorist attack and apprehended two explosive packed vehicles. During the fire exchanged with security men, the man believed to be the
NAIROBI- After rescuers were still searching in the scene of the six-story building that collapsed in Nairobi’s Huruma residential estate on Friday, today the death toll in Kenya’s capital has risen to 7 where in addition to those who have lost their lives, the number of injured people so far
Washington denounces the regime’s strikes and calls on Russia to use its influence on Damascus The US State Department said that the air strikes carried out by the Syrian regime on a hospital in Aleppo is “reprehensible” and called on Russia to use its influence to put pressure on Bashar Al-Assad’s
Egypt’s Attorney General Nabil Sadeq yesterday ordered an investigation into the death of Egyptian citizen Sherif Adel Habib who died in Britain on the 25th of April. He also commissioned the Department of International Cooperation to prepare memoranda to be sent from Egypt to the judicial authoriti
SEOUL- According to North’s official KCNA news agency, Kim Dong Chul, 62, who was arrested in North Korea in October where he admitted to be guilty of committing “unpardonable espionage” including stealing military secrets, got sentenced to 10 years hard labor on Friday for subvers
MUMBAI- Businessman Naveen Jindal will be facing trial on charges of criminal conspiracy over an alleged scam involving government allocations of coalfields, as ordered by an Indian court on Friday, noting that the special court — which was set up to hear cases related to the alleged scam R
HELSINKI- According to a report commissioned by the Finnish government on Friday, it was stated that there could be serious crisis with neighboring Russia, incase it happens for Finland to join NATO. As for instance the membership of the military alliance would reinforce Finland’s security nev
