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Egyptian ministry of irrigation — torrent season begins
AL-MUKALLA, Yemen: Until the Iran-backed Houthi militia seized Yemen’s western port city of Hodeidah in late 2014, foreign and local experts had been regularly visiting a 45-year-old oil tanker moored ... -
Pompeo to visit Cyprus, calls on Turkey to withdraw forces from Mediterranean
LONDON/KABUL: Born in exile, she died in exile. But during the 10 controversial years she spent as queen of Afghanistan, Soraya Tarzi gave the women of her country a tantalizing glimpse ... -
Explosion at a military installation in the Jordanian city of Zarqa
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait's Emiri Diwan said in a statement on Thursday that the Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah's health is stable and that the Emir is receiving the scheduled medical ... -
Indonesian students send mixed signals on remote learning
DIENG PLATEAU, Central Java: Dewi Listiani must spend hours standing and staring at a wall in her kitchen, where a phone screen relays online lessons until her remote learning class ... -
Tussle over TikTok keeps Middle East content creators on edge
DUBAI: The race to buy one of the hottest social media apps in the market is intensifying as its current owner girds for a court battle with the US government.Some ... -
World Bank cancels loan for Lebanon’s Bisri dam, effective immediately
The World Bank has announced the cancellation of $244 million in funds for the Bisri Dam project in Lebanon after repeatedly raising concerns about the project since January. The Bank ... -
Local virus outbreak in Myanmar sparks fears for Rohingya camps
SYDNEY: The suspected white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers last year, a massacre that prompted a global campaign to stamp out online hate, arrived in Christchurch on Sunday ahead ... -
UAE detects 424 new COVID-19 infections
VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog’s chief Rafael Grossi will make his first trip to Tehran in that role on Monday to pressure Iran to grant inspectors access to two suspected former ... -
Russia says US statements on fresh imposition of Iran sanctions are absurd
Jordanian minister criticized for son's wedding during coronavirus ban on gatherings CAIRO: The Jordanian Minister of Justice has hit back after social media users criticized him for holding a wedding ... -
Iranian president calls Iraqi premier’s visit ‘turning point’
BEIRUT: Lebanese health workers who have died from COVID-19 will be recognized as “martyrs of duty” following a Cabinet decision on Tuesday. A young doctor, Louay Ismail, who died from the ... -
Egypt army drill ‘sends a message to Erdogan’
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed a decree on Friday to reopen Hagia Sophia, the UNESCO world heritage site that was the Roman Empire’s first Christian cathedral, constructed in ... -
Singapore opens gyms, dining out as China outbreak steadies
SINGAPORE: Singaporeans can wine and dine at restaurants, work out at the gym and socialize with no more than five people at a time as of Friday, when the city-state ... -
India sees 10,000 new coronavirus cases ahead of reopenings
CHICAGO: Stores owned by immigrants of Arab and Muslim origin are among the many businesses that were pillaged and destroyed during the protests triggered by the death in Minneapolis of ... -
AI helped predict virus health care needs, says SEHA CFO
DHAKA: Bangladeshi authorities are struggling to recover the bodies of 26 nationals after they were killed in a gunfight by human traffickers in Libya on Thursday.A group of 42 migrants, ... -
As blood banks run dry, Indonesia turns to communities to replenish supply
ISTANBUL: The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) continues to be an object of fascination for international news junkies amid the saturation media coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Unlike in ... -
Needy Tunisians get food aid via text messages
DUBAI: Public opinion surveys conducted in Saudi Arabia and the UAE are revealing a mix of sharp changes in attitudes and an uptick in optimism that the coronavirus crisis will ... -
Pompeo, resuming travel, to visit Israel to meet coalition government
GAZA CITY: “Death by corona or starvation is all death.” With these few words Yahya Khadr summed up his condition and that of thousands of Palestinians who have chosen to ... -
Turkey desperate for swap lines as recession looms
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s hopes of securing access to US swap lines have taken a nosedive with the Federal Reserve highlighting the need for “mutual trust” with any applicant country. The Fed’s statement ... -
Thousands protest Israel coalition deal on eve of court date
ANKARA: Turkey is burning through its reserves of foreign currency in a futile attempt to prop up the collapsing lira, and may run out of US dollars by July, economists ... -
Mid-air plane collision kills four in Australia
BEIJING: New virus cases in China continued to fall Wednesday, with 1,749 new infections and 136 new deaths announced after China’s leader said disease prevention and control was at “a ...
