A cholera outbreak of more than 100,000 cases has erupted in war-ravaged Yemen, killing nearly 800 people, in just over a month, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The UN health agency said that since the end of April, 101,820 suspected cholera cases had been registered across 19 of the co
London – A new head teacher is being sought for a single pupil school on a Scottish island described as being on the edge of the world. Jayne Smith is leaving Foula Primary, in Shetland, after three-and-a-half years in the post. The job is being advertised with a salary of £49,133 and rented t
The current mistrust for polls started in the UK when pollsters got the 2015 general election and the 2016 Brexit referendum wrong. Now, it might appear that, despite intensive soul-searching, British pollsters are still unreliable: Their numbers are all over the place, with Prime Minister Theresa M
Taiz – Command of Forces of Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen raided on Houthi and Saleh’s warehouses and clusters in Midi front of Hajjah governorate, on the Saudi border. The coalition intensified its raids on Houthi sites in several Yemeni cities under militias’ control. The coalition conc
The Libyan National Army Spokesman Ahmed Al- Mismari said on Thursday that Qatar single-handedly “destroyed the Arab region and that there is no hope for reconciliation.” According to a briefing released by the “Alhadath” Arabic online news platform, Mismari asserted that Doha backs a number of terr
Emirates Post Group, the United Arab Emirates’ national postal service, has suspended all services to Qatar, state news agency WAM said on Thursday. “Emirates Post Group has suspended postal services to Qatar from all of its postal offices in the UAE from June 6, until further notice,
Countries with modest geographic stretch often are tempted by large-scale roles—the small country syndrome, whereby investing in rogue policy comes to compensate for what has been denied by limited territory. Sooner or later, these countries cave into temptation found in playing dangerous strings af
Riyadh – Qatar’s stock market has witnessed its biggest drop in 18 months, as the crisis between the country and neighboring nations escalated. The decision of several countries to cut diplomatic relations with Doha had its direct impact on the Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) as it lost 720.98 points (-7
The United Nations Human Rights Office said Thursday it has “credible reports” indicating that ISIS militants have shot dead children attempting to escape western Mosul, in addition to reports of a “significant escalation” in civilians deaths in the battle for the Iraqi city. It also sai
Syrian regime warplanes struck on Thursday ISIS positions west of Raqqa on the southern bank of the Euphrates river and along a highway linking the northern city to Aleppo, regime media said. “The air force destroyed positions and armored vehicles” in the western Raqqa countryside, about
Russian-backed peace talks on Syria in Astana have been postponed, Kazakhstan’s foreign ministry said Thursday without mentioning when the next round of negotiations would be held, as key players wrangle over the future of fragile safe zones in the war-torn country. The ministry said it had b
Manama – The efforts led by Emir of Kuwait Shiekh Sabah al-Ahmad to contain the Qatari crisis depend only on the Doha leadership, according to Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed al-Khalifa Khalifa said that Qatar has launched many campaigns against his country, reiterating that the on
Jeddah – Confusion and chaos is prevailing over Doha International Airport after the cancellation of 1,500 flights to Doha, as flights to Qatar have been paralyzed for the first time in the history of aviation in the region. In Saudi Arabia, Qatar Airways is expected to complete the final closure of
Algiers- Algerians have been under shock since the brutal killing of a 10-year-old boy in a town in al-Oued province this week. A farmer found the body of Bilal buried in an isolated place a week after his disappearance. The boy was last seen riding his bicycle near his family home. His murder broug
Cairo – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi condemned terrorist attacks executed in the name of religion, reiterating that Islam doesn’t permit aggression and compels its followers to respect others’ creeds. Speaking on the sidelines of a conference held in Cairo in the presence of a number of m
Cairo- Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni has stressed that his country is working for stability in Libya despite acknowledging the difficulty to achieve such an objective. At a speech on Wednesday at the 50th anniversary celebration of the exodus of the Jews of Libya at the Great Synagogue of R
Beirut – Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said that after the completion of drafting a new electoral law, the government’s priorities would focus on the economic situation and the reform of the electricity sector. He noted in this regard that the privatization of some sectors was the only solu
Beirut – United States Central Command head Gen. Joseph Votel said that Washington would always support the Lebanese Army, noting that the US and Lebanon shared common interests that include defeating ISIS and other terrorist and extremist organizations. Votel was speaking during a tour on Wednesday
What next? This is the question that policymakers and analysts in major capitals have been posing for the past three days as they pondered the severance of diplomatic ties between Arab states and Qatar. Though no one knows what the future may contain, three points are already clear. The first is tha
