A car loaded with gas canisters rammed into a police van on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris on Monday, leaving the driver dead in what the interior minister said was an “attempted attack”. Police sources told AFP that a Kalashnikov rifle, handguns and gas bottles were found in the whi
Saudi Arabia’s information ministry said on Monday saying that the Saudi navy has successfully captured three members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from a boat seized last week as it approached the kingdom’s offshore Marjan oilfield. “This was one of three vessels whic
At leader 16 people were killed when five female suicide bombers detonated their explosives near a camp for refugees left homeless by Boko Haram extremist violence in northeast Nigeria, emergency services said on Monday. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the attacks took place at
Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who died at the age of 87 on Friday, was the man who put German history to bed. It was also he who, with his idealism, helped lay the groundwork for the current confrontation between Russia and the West. A local dialect speaker from Rhineland Palatinate, Kohl wa
London – Antonio Conte will be given short shrift by the Chelsea hierarchy if he attempts to exert greater control over the Premier League champions’ recruitment policy amid suggestions the manager is growing frustrated at the club’s failure to make early inroads in the summer market. Reports
London – Mike Tyson has an interesting new book out called Iron Ambition. In it he talks about his violent childhood, explores his relationship with his late coach, the great Cus D’Amato, and kicks the whole thing off with a passage about wandering around his old Brooklyn neighborhood, marveli
A senior United Arab Emirates (UAE) official said on Monday Qatar’s diplomatic isolation could “last years” if it did not alter its foreign policy and said a list of their grievances would be completed in the next days. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt two
Unidentified gunmen stormed a Mali luxury resort popular with Western expatriates just outside the capital Bamako, killing four guests and leaving one other guest missing, a security source at the scene said on Monday. One of the victims of Sunday’s attack was Portuguese and one Cameroonian, t
London- Qatar’s riyal is being quoted weaker than its peg against the US dollar as Doha grapples with a diplomatic crisis, but that is the result of poor liquidity in the currency market. The Qatar’s riyal, officially fixed at 3.64 to the dollar since 2001, has been offered as low as 3.6680 si
Aden – Houthi militias, which are raging civil unrest in Yemen, have robbed humanitarian relief supplies loaded in 63 cargo vessels, said the Yemeni Chairman of the Higher Relief Committee Abdul Rakeeb Fatah. Fatah, who is also a local administrative, confirmed that Iran-aligned putschists hav
An official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia strongly condemned and denounced two explosions that took place in Cairo and Diraz village in Bahrain which resulted in the death and injury of several security personnel, the Saudi Press Agency reported on
Washington- Member of the Democratic Party and New York Rep. Eliot Engel is sponsoring a bill with nine other congressmen seeking sanctions against Iran and Qatar for its support of extremist groups, such as Hamas. The bill, filed on 25 May, refers to Qatar as a state-sponsor for Hamas leaders in Do
London – The Ministry of Health in Yemen is focusing on environmental sanitation to eradicate cholera, spokesman Mohammed al-Saadi told Asharq Al-Awsat. He however noted the collapse of the coup-controlled areas due to the lack of proper sanitation and the accumulation of waste. Saadi added th
The chief Brexit negotiators of the European Union and Britain began their first formal Brexit talks on Monday by underlining the need to quickly tackle uncertainties in the process and their constructive attitude to reach a deal that is good for all. The EU’s chief negotiator, France’s
Manama- Bahrain Court of Appeal commuted prison sentences of eight defendants accused of establishing a branch of ISIS in Bahrain. The High Court of Appeal upheld the decision to revoke the nationalities of the eight convicts who had joined ISIS, reducing the prison sentences from 15 to eight years.
Riyadh – Capital Markets Authority (CMA) expected the domestic market to enter the MSCI after officials expressed a serious wish to add the Saudi stock market to the biggest index in the world. MSCI will decide on Tuesday whether to include Saudi Arabia on its list for potential reclassificati
Devastating conflicts, violence and persecution in places like Syria and South Sudan had left a record 65.6 million people uprooted from their homes last year, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Monday. That number that includes refugees, asylum seekers and people uprooted inside
Algeria – Iran’s Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif began on Sunday his official tour to three African states by holding talks with Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal and Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdelkader Messahel. During a joint news conference with his Algerian counterpart,
US President Donald Trump will send later this week his top aides to Jerusalem and Ramallah to resume efforts to possibly revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, announced a White House official on Sunday. Jared Kushner, who is Trump’s son-in-law and husband of his daughter Ivanka Trump,
Ramallah, Tel Aviv- Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surrounding have turned into a conflict zone on Sunday with outbreak of clashes between worshipers and Israeli occupation forces – these clashes included siege, conflicts, arrests and attempts to raid Al-Qibli Chapel, causing a huge destruction in the build
