MAKKAH: More than 1 million livestock have been readied for meat sacrifice to cater for this year’s Hajj pilgrims, Saudi officials have announced. And an army of more than 40,000 operators, technicians and supervisors will be working around the clock to meet the demand of worshippers, said Dr. Bandar Al-Hajjar, chairman of both the Islamic…
Alicia Keys, the 15-time Grammy Award-winner, will appear with motivational guru Tony Robbins in Dubai’s Coca-Cola Arena on Sept. 3. Keys will give a speech that is said to help inspire, empower and motivate people to be their authentic selves at the “Achieve the Unimaginable” event. “I am both honored and excited to have Alicia…
Alicia Keys, the 15-time Grammy Award-winner, will appear with motivational guru Tony Robbins in Dubai’s Coca-Cola Arena on Sept. 3. Keys will give a speech that is said to help inspire, empower and motivate people to be their authentic selves at the “Achieve the Unimaginable” event. “I am both honored and excited to have Alicia…
DUBAI: A “third-culture kid” is a child who grows up in a culture different from the one in which his or her parents grew up. In a globalized world, where such an experience of childhood is all too common, the combination of the two identities can be socially isolating — or conversely, as in the…
DOHA: Qatar giants Al-Sadd and Al-Duhail produced a tense 1-1 draw as they squared off for the very first time in the AFC Champions League on Tuesday. The round of 16 match was played at the brand new Al-Janoub Stadium built for the 2022 World Cup. In the second match of the day, Bafetimbi Gomis scored…
DOHA: Qatar giants Al-Sadd and Al-Duhail produced a tense 1-1 draw as they squared off for the very first time in the AFC Champions League on Tuesday. The round of 16 match was played at the brand new Al-Janoub Stadium built for the 2022 World Cup. In the second match of the day, Bafetimbi Gomis scored…
LONDON: Australia took an early lead in cricket’s oldest regular international series when they rallied from 122-8 in the first innings to win the first Ashes Test by a huge 251 runs against England on Monday. The teams meet at Lord’s for the second of five Tests starting Aug. 14. Here’s what we have learned so…
LONDON: Thousands of British Airways passengers had to endure cancelations, delays and long queues at airports as the airline suffered its third major computer failure in a little more than two years.Wednesday’s woes are the latest in a string of problems at BA, which was fined $230 million last month for a huge customer data…
LONDON: Stock markets turned higher on Tuesday as China stabilized its currency after allowing it to depreciate against the dollar in response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to put more tariffs on Chinese goods. The more buoyant tone follows a big sell-off Monday, when stocks were hammered after the Chinese government allowed its currency…
LONDON: Stock markets turned higher on Tuesday as China stabilized its currency after allowing it to depreciate against the dollar in response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to put more tariffs on Chinese goods. The more buoyant tone follows a big sell-off Monday, when stocks were hammered after the Chinese government allowed its currency…
ATHENS: The body of a missing British scientist has been found in a ravine on the Greek island of Ikaria two days after she disappeared, Greek public television reported on Wednesday.The cause of death of Nicosia-based astrophysicist Natalie Christopher, who had been on holiday with her partner, was not yet determined, the ERT channel said.Greek police…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan announced Wednesday that it is expelling the Indian High Commissioner and suspending bilateral trade with its nuclear-armed neighbor, days after New Delhi stripped the disputed Kashmir region of its special autonomy.“We will call back our ambassador from Delhi and send back their” envoy, foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced in televised comments, while…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Wednesday it would expel India's ambassador and suspend bilateral trade with its arch-rival after New Delhi stripped its portion of the contested Kashmir region of special status.Neighbours China and Pakistan, which both claim parts of Kashmir, have voiced fierce opposition to India's removal of a constitutional provision that had allowed the country's…
JEDDAH: Southern separatists clashed Wednesday with presidential guards in Aden, the seat of Yemen’s government, with one person killed and at least two badly injured, local officials and residents told Reuters.The separatists and the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi are united in their battle against the Iranian-backed Houthi militia but tensions have…
Court documents accuse Qatar-owned Doha Bank of money transfer to Syrian extremists LONDON: A Qatari bank has been accused of transferring “large sums of money” to an Al-Qaeda-linked extremist group in Syria. A claim issued at the High Court in London by a group of Syrians accuses two wealthy brothers of using accounts at Doha…
JEDDAH: Southern separatists clashed Wednesday with presidential guards in Aden, the seat of Yemen’s government, with one person killed and at least two badly injured, local officials and residents told Reuters.The separatists and the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi are united in their battle against the Iranian-backed Houthi militia but tensions have…
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s first female crane operators have received their operating permits at the King Abdul Aziz Port (KAP), state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday. The women will operate remote controlled cranes introduced as part of KAP’s push to introduce new technologies in all departments at its container terminals, which is also the first…
JEDDAH: The last pilgrims traveling under Saudi Arabia’s Makkah Route Initiative arrived in the Kingdom Wednesday ahead of Hajj. The program established last year allows pilgrims to complete their entry paperwork in the airports they are departing from rather than once they arrive in Saudi Arabia. More than 171,000 pilgrims from Tunisia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan…
JEDDAH: The last pilgrims traveling under Saudi Arabia’s Makkah Route Initiative arrived in the Kingdom Wednesday ahead of Hajj. The program established last year allows pilgrims to complete their entry paperwork in the airports they are departing from rather than once they arrive in Saudi Arabia. More than 171,000 pilgrims from Tunisia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan…
