At a cafe a few blocks from the old KGB headquarters at Lubyanka Square, investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov tries to explain the murky world of Russian intelligence that’s now the focus of a US criminal investigation into the hacking of the 2016 campaign. Big events in today’s Russia often are
Washington – A bad year for Qatar Airways just got a whole lot worse. Amid the ongoing rupture in diplomatic relations between Qatar and its surrounding Arab nations, the small peninsular state’s national airline has been banned from flying to the four countries spearheading what is esse
London – Ederson made sure he left Benfica for Manchester City with a bang. In the goalkeeper’s penultimate league match for the Portuguese champions, not only did he keep his 17th clean sheet of the season, he also got an assist. A goal-kick from the 23-year-old led to Benfica’s second goal i
London – “I was in demand,” remembered Phil Babb. “I was on holiday and every other day I was reading the papers and I was going here, there and everywhere.” Back in 1994, the player who was once rejected by his local club Millwall appeared to have the world at his feet. Fresh from his [&helli
Geneva- Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights Violations confirmed that Yemeni women are the first victims of assaults and brutal acts of coup militias in the country. The Coalition held a seminar on Friday at the United Nations in Geneva on the sidelines of the 35th session of the Human Righ
Riyadh- Saudi Transport Minister Sulaiman bin Abdullah al-Hamdan signed contracts with international and local companies to build and operate four airports in Jeddah, Ta’if, Qassim, Ha’il and Yanbu. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said that part
Victim to the detrimental foreign policy adopted by Doha, the Qatari citizen perhaps is the most forgotten amidst the diplomatic row engulfing the region. For years, Qatar’s government invested in harboring and supporting extremist groups, and was well-occupied with harming its neighbors. Subsequent
Bahrain’s minister of justice threatened legal measures against any political organization found communicating or expressing support for the people named in a new Qatar-associated list of banned terrorist individuals and entities. The “ministry will hold accountable whoever uses religion in fa
The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces broke into the western part of ISIS’ so-called Syrian capital of Raqqa on Saturday, the SDF and a monitor said, opening up a second front inside the Syrian city after it had seized an important district in its far east. The SDF has spent months tightening the n
Manama – Bahrain has reaffirmed its suffering from the dangerous terrorist organizations that receive funding and support from abroad in which Qatar’s role in supporting and funding them has emerged recently. According to the Quartet statement, which listed 59 individuals on the terror list, t
Qatar’s riyal has come under high pressure as Gulf Arab commercial banks began to hold off on deals with Qatari banks because of the diplomatic split in the region. Moody’s Investors Service stated that the Gulf country’s credit quality would decline severely if tensions with fello
Myanmar navy ships battled high winds on Saturday as they rooted through the storm-whipped Andaman sea for wreckage from a military plane crash, bringing another body to shore as scores remained missing. The aircraft, a Chinese-made Y-8-200F transport plane, lost contact 29 minutes after takeoff on
The ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Washington has said that Qatar must acknowledge concerns about its “troubling support for extremism” and “re-examine its regional policies.” “The UAE welcomes President (Donald) Trump’s leadership in challenging Qatar’
Bahrain welcomed on Saturday a statement made by US President Donald Trump “on confronting Qatar’s support for extremism and the immediate need to stop its funding and support for terrorism.” A statement published on the Bahrain News Agency said Trump’s “stance is part of the relentless US eff
Cairo – Experts in extremist groups’ affairs considered that the names mentioned in the list of terrorist individuals and entities, announced by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE and Bahrain on Thursday, and which accused Qatar of supporting it, reveals the “unity of objective among extremist gro
Washington- The International Monetary Fund recently released a report with an evaluation on social security programs covering the poor and underprivileged in low-income countries, given that that part of the population tends to suffer most from economic reform and austerity measures. The Washington
The referral of a businessman to trial before a military court, and the incommunicado detention of seven other men in undisclosed locations, is a threat to human rights in Tunisia, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Authorities arrested the well-connected businessman, and seven other men, between Ma
Beirut – A rise in cold-blooded murders in Lebanon has been met with demands for re-enacting the death penalty which has been frozen since 2004. The latest crime was the killing of a 23-year-old man by a gunman north of Beirut earlier this week. The gunman killed Roy Hamouche after their cars
Beirut- Syrian forces and their allied militias reached the Iraqi border on Friday, achieving Tehran’s strategic objective in linking the Syrian border with Iran via Iraq and guaranteeing a meeting point for Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces and groups backed by Tehran in Syria. Syrian regime and “
Iranian authorities have arrested 41 people linked to ISIS in connection with this week’s attacks in Tehran, Iran’s intelligence ministry said. The intelligence ministry said Friday 41 suspects were arrested in Tehran, in the northwestern provinces of Kermanshah and Kurdistan, and in Wes
