Less than three years after its high-profile launch, Al Jazeera America, the cable television news outlet owned by Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network, is shutting down its cable news channel despite spending heavily to break into the US market. The U.S. cable network will cease operations by April
Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG) signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the World Association of Newspapers (WAN-IFRA). As per the deal, WAN-IFRA would assist with SRMG’s current and future projects, including new media and the group’s local and global expansion plans. SRMG’s Managin
Yemeni presidency expressed its disappointment at the failure of the UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, to yield positive results during his visit to Sana’a and the talks he held with the rebels, regarding a number of issues related to the preparations for the next round of consultations a
The first voting to choose a new anthem for England was held on Wednesday in the House of Commons. The proposal was presented by Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins, who believes that England needs its own anthem, like the ones enjoyed by Scotland and Wales. The spokesman for Perkins told Asharq Al-Awsat,
In the first official confession of the presence of Iranian Armed youth, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander, Mohammad Ali Jafari, acknowledged training tens of thousands of Shiite youths, whom he called the armed revolutionary generation, for jihad in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Y
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition partners proposed fast-tracking asylum applications by Moroccans and Algerians to enable quicker deportations if they are rejected, following sexual attacks on women blamed on migrants. Reuters cited Justice Minister Heiko Maas as sayi
AIT OURIR – A few weeks before she was killed in a raid by French special forces beside the suspected ringleader of last November’s Paris attacks, Hasna Ait Boulahcen packed her bags and said her last farewells to relatives in Morocco. The 26-year-old Parisian’s almost two-month-lo
PARIS – The French government on Wednesday banned three religious groups linked to a mosque in the east of Paris that was closed in December for being at the heart of a jihadist recruitment network, Reuters quoted Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve as saying. Cazeneuve said the groups tied to
COPENHAGEN – Denmark will extend temporary controls at its border with Germany by 20 days to Feb. 3 because it wants to guard against potentially large numbers of migrants trying to enter the country, Reuters reported citing the Danish Immigration Ministry. EU member Denmark introduced a 10-da
The Algerian Civil Defense Service said that seven people died and one person was wounded after a fire tore through a tourism complex at a beach resort on the outskirts of the Algerian capital. The fire erupted around 2:30 am at a bungalow in the Azur complex in the beach resort of Zeralda, official
ISTANBUL – A suicide bomber who killed himself and 10 German tourists in Istanbul’s historic heart had registered with Turkish immigration authorities but was not on any list of known militant suspects, Reuters reported Wednesday citing Interior Ministry sources. The bomber, who authorit
Madrid – Reuters reported that FC Barcelona’s forward player Neymar has been ordered to appear in a Spanish court next February as one of the defendants in a fraud case brought by DIS, a Brazilian investment fund. A judge in Madrid, acting on a request from the state prosecutor, told Neymar, h
The price of crude oil rose for the first time in eight days, a positive turn as Chinese data showed record imports in December and US oil pulling further away from $30-per-barrel level. Brent crude, the global benchmark, was up 87 cents at $31.73 a barrel, but hovered around low levels not seen for
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz today completes his first year as the seventh king of modern Saudi Arabia. During this period King Salman has proved his success in drawing up and announcing a new state with new systems managed by the second and third generations whils
Reuters reported that the English club Southampton striker Graziano Pelle is returning to full fitness, after missing four games due to a knee injury. Manager Ronald Koeman said that Pelle could be playing against Watford in the Premier League on Wednesday. The Italy national team striker is the sou
Baghdad- Informed sources have confirmed that in the past two days about 10 Sunni mosques were bombed northeast of Baghdad in Diyala province. The sources added that some of these mosques were constructed hundreds of years ago and were classified as historical places of worship. Independent politica
The massive wave of divorce now threatens Iranian society with falling apart, as numbers have recorded a rate of one divorce occurring each 3 minutes. The ratings were reported by a recent study observing the social standings of the Iranian society over the last two years. Moreover, new statistics s
Iran is engrossed in a frantic race to buy weapons worth $21 billion even before international sanctions are lifted on the 15th of January according to intelligence sources in Israel and the United States. These sources told three military correspondents in Tel Aviv yesterday that despite the fact t
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) detained 10 American sailors after a “broken navigation system” led them into Iranian waters, according to Iran’s state-run Press TV. Yet, U.S. officials have not confirmed the reason behind two American naval ships entering Iranian waters.
“I thought that the writer is the foreign minister of a Scandinavian country,” the UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed commented about his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif’s article that was published in “The New York Times” two days ago. Perhaps this ironic commentary summarizes
