BEIRUT: House of Commons Speaker John Bercow provoked widespread mirth in Lebanon on Wednesday when he told unruly British MPs they were setting a bad example to a visiting delegation of Lebanese politicians. “I’m not sure at the moment how impressed they’ll be,” said Bercow, pointing to the visitors’ gallery as MPs in the Commons chamber…
ABU DHABI: The world is familiar with the toll that the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis has taken on Yemeni civilians. Less well known is the precarious situation of an estimated 1,000 followers of the Baha’i faith who live in Yemen, mostly in the Houthi-held capital Sana’a.With the Houthis’ military advances in Yemen in 2014-2015,…
AL-SOUDAH: The tourism mega projects that are underway in Saudi Arabia will change the world’s perception of the Kingdom, according to extreme-sports athlete Jokke Sommer. The Norwegian professional skydiver, BASE jumper and wingsuit flyer recently displayed his aerial skills in Asir region as part of the Al-Soudah summer festival season, and said that he had…
JEDDAH: King Salman on Wednesday received the 55th annual report of the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA), which reviewed economic and financial developments in the country during 2018.The report was presented to the king at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah by Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan and SAMA Gov. Dr. Ahmed Alkholifey. The king noted SAMA’s important…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had an “important role” to play in urging India to halt and reverse what he called its “illegal actions” in Indian-administered Kashmir.The PM said this during a meeting with visiting dignitaries, the Saudi Minister of State for Foreign…
DUBAI: The fantasy film “Scales” made its debut at the Venice Film Festival on Monday. “Sayidat Al-Bahr,” or “Scales” in English, was created by Image Nation Abu Dhabi and directed by Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen. Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen is the director of “Scales.” (Supplied) The fantasy film, made in the UAE, tells the story of…
What We Are Reading Today: Patient Care Under Uncertainty by Charles F. Manski Although uncertainty is a common element of patient care, it has largely been overlooked in research on evidence-based medicine. Patient Care Under Uncertainty strives to correct this glaring omission, says a review on the Princeton University Press website. Applying the tools of…
What We Are Reading Today: Patient Care Under Uncertainty by Charles F. Manski Although uncertainty is a common element of patient care, it has largely been overlooked in research on evidence-based medicine. Patient Care Under Uncertainty strives to correct this glaring omission, says a review on the Princeton University Press website. Applying the tools of…
NEW YORK: Naomi Osaka’s achy left knee didn’t let her serve without pain, so she didn’t practice that key part of her game leading into the US Open. The knee also prevented her from covering the court and preparing for shots the way she’d like.Those weren’t the only reasons that the No. 1-seeded Osaka’s 10-match…
PARIS: The transfer window shut gently across much of Europe with a flurry of loan deals instead of the anticipated bang of a mega-move. Several big-name players did change clubs on loans, including Mauro Icardi moving to Paris Saint-Germain from Inter Milan and Nikola Kalinic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan going out to Roma from Atletico Madrid and…
LIVERPOOL: Richarlison bagged a brace as Everton earned a dramatic 3-2 win over Wolves on Sunday. Brazil forward Richarlison scored the winner with 10 minutes left at Goodison Park to hand the Toffees their second win of the Premier League season. It was an encouraging day for Everton boss Marco Silva, who handed first Premier League…
BEIJING: European stock markets opened higher while Asia was mixed Monday after Washington and Beijing escalated their war over trade and technology with new tariff hikes. Benchmarks in London, Paris and Shanghai advanced. Tokyo and Hong Kong declined. Markets reacted less strongly to the weekend tariff hikes on billions of dollars of goods than to previous…
DUBAI: The CEO of the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) said it has “a good pipeline” of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the coming months, and is ready to stage the biggest of them all, that of Saudi Aramco, whenever the government decides to launch it. Speaking exclusively to Arab News as Tadawul marked its full…
SEOUL: South Korea’s exports tumbled in August for a ninth consecutive month, on sluggish demand from its biggest buyer, China, and depressed prices of computer chips globally, government data showed on Sunday. The bleak data clouded the outlook for Asia’s fourth-largest economy as a brewing trade dispute with Japan emerged as a new risk to the…
LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a major parliamentary defeat over his Brexit strategy on Tuesday, which could delay Britain’s exit from the European Union next month and force an early election.Just six weeks after taking office, the Conservative leader was hit by a huge rebellion among his own MPs that leaves him without a…
LONDON: British lawmakers on Tuesday began a bid to stop Boris Johnson pursuing what they cast as a calamitous 'no-deal' Brexit, a challenge that a senior government source said would prompt the prime minister to press for a snap election on Oct. 14. More than three years after the UK voted in a referendum to leave…
LONDON: Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a major parliamentary defeat over his Brexit strategy on Tuesday, which could delay Britain’s exit from the European Union next month and force an early election.Just six weeks after taking office, the Conservative leader was hit by a huge rebellion among his own MPs that leaves him without a…
CAIRO: Germany’s top diplomat said Tuesday his country has been working to readmit Sudan into the international economy after the military’s overthrow of autocratic President Omar Al-Bashir in April amid mass protests against his three-decade rule.Foreign Minister Heiko Maas landed in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, in the first such visit to the African country by a…
WASHINGTON: The United States imposed sanctions on the three Iranian space agencies on Tuesday, the Treasury Department said, as Washington ramps up pressure over Tehran's nuclear program.The Treasury targeted the Iran Space Agency, Iran Space Research Center and the Astronautics Research Institute, according to a statement on its website. US President Donald Trump withdrew from…
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s interior minister on Tuesday threatened “to devastate” the mayor of Istanbul over his support for three Kurdish mayors who were replaced by state officials over alleged terror links less than five months after the trio were elected. Last month, Turkey replaced pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) mayors in Diyarbakir, Van and Mardin with…
