Riyadh, Dammam- After Qatar rejected to comply with a list of demands made by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt on an ultimatum that expired Sunday night, signs emerged of a second wave of sanctions to be imposed by the four Arab states against Doha, which is accused of supporting terrorism.
Washington- The United States has lifted a ban on passengers taking laptops and tablet computers on Etihad Airways flights from its base in the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi. Etihad is the first airliner to benefit from a lift in the ban, which specified that carry-on laptops and other electronic device
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) suffered a crushing defeat in local Tokyo elections on Sunday, losing to the capital’s Governor Yuriko Koike’s Tokyo Citizens First party. Koike’s novice party and its allies, including the LDP’s national-level coa
President Donald Trump’s administration has issued guidelines through the State Department for who will be exempt from the travel ban from six majority Muslim countries, which the US Supreme Court allowed Monday to partly go into effect. The guidelines are highly arbitrary in defining what counts as
London- British Princes William and Harry will attend a private service on Saturday to re-dedicate the grave of their mother Princess Diana on what would have been her 56th birthday. The service will be at Diana’s resting place in her family’s ancestral home in central England, where the
The maligned Samsung Galaxy Note 7 will be refurbished and sold at cut prices in South Korea next week, announced Samsung Electronics. The Galaxy Note FE phone, using unused parts in the recalled Note 7 smartphones, will go on sale in South Korea on Friday at 700,000 won ($611), about three quarters
With another term of the US Supreme Court behind us, full of decisions both predictable and surprising, perhaps we should take a moment to consider a question very much of the moment: Why doesn’t the court leak? The rest of Washington has reached the point where confidentiality is a joke. So why not
London- “I have high confidence we are going in the right direction. I am very excited about how we are developing as a team, how Pep has taken the squad and really started a process of going through that natural cycle of development.” Khaldoon al-Mubarak, Manchester City chairman, May 2017 In Augus
London- Addressing an audience of around 250 Arsenal supporters Ivan Gazidis said there had barely been a single hour since the end of the season when he was not working on club business. A summer’s evening spent at the Royal Oak Suite at the Emirates summed up how the goings-on at a football club n
Three people were reportedly killed on Sunday in a fire that blazed at a Syrian refugee encampment in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley, local media said. The identities of the alleged victims have not been revealed. Flames and thick clouds of black smoke rose from the site near the town of Qab Elias,
Kurdish militants shot and killed two officials from the ruling AK Party in southeast Turkey over the weekend, as the Turkish military killed more than a dozen militants in air strikes, state authorities said on Sunday. Orhan Mercan, the AKP’s deputy head in the Lice district of Diyarbakir pro
Qatar’s stock market fell sharply on Sunday as a deadline for Doha to accept a number of political demands by Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates loomed. The deadline is on Sunday and there has been no indication that the diplomatic crisis would be resolved. The Qatari st
Paris– Iranian opposition held its annual convention 2017 in auditorium in Villepente Exhibition Center, near Paris, on Saturday in a massive expression of support urging the world to adopt a firm approach toward the regime in Iran. Hundreds of prominent political figures and activists from all over
Fresh of this week’s latest global cyber attack, the US government warned that nuclear and energy sectors could be the target of future attacks. The warning was the latest event to highlight the power industry’s vulnerability to hacking. Since at least May, hackers used tainted “phishing
Kuwait, Mosul– Kuwaiti authorities had increased their security measures in wake of possible ISIS terrorists infiltrating into their territories, following their defeat in Iraq. The Ministry of Interior sent a telegram to all its security leaders on the borders, airports, and intelligence asking the
Manilla – Around 400,000 people have been displaced in the ongoing clashes between Philippine forces and extremists in the city of Marawi, officials announced on Saturday as they warned of the possible spread of diseases among the people. Marawi has been turned into a ghost town after it was overrun
London– At the time when September 11 attacks on New York and Washington occurred, Osama bin Laden was hiding in an Afghan cave, unable to get a decent TV satellite signal and was forced to follow up the developments on the radio. Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy released detailed account of Bin La
Ramallah – Secretary of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Saeb Erakat held talks in Washington on Saturday with US envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt. The discussions focused on efforts to resume the Israeli-Palestinian peace process as part of the Palestinian official’s meetings he hel
Ramallah– A technical committee from Gaza strip will head to Egypt to execute the agreement reached with the Egyptian government during Hamas’ visit to Cairo few weeks ago, according to Deputy Interior Minister of Hamas Lieutenant Toufik Abu Naim. Abu Naim said that Egypt expressed its willingness t
Cairo – Commander of the Libyan National Army Field Marshal Khalifa Hafter granted various political factions a deadline of six months to reach a solution to the country’s crisis that has been raging since the overthrow of Moammar al-Gadhafi in 2011. He threatened to resort to the army to end the de
