Prominent Muslim figures: religious, cultural diversity don’t justify ‘conflict’ MAKKAH: A historic anti-extremism document has been signed by 1,200 figures from the Muslim world following a landmark gathering in the holy city of Makkah. The four-day conference, organized by the Muslim World League (MWL), was attended by dignitaries, scholars, senior officials and leading thinkers who between…
DUBAI: As fans snap up their cinema tickets for “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” four of the film’s terrifying monsters took over the Burj Khalifa on Tuesday night in anticipation of the film’s release. The tallest building in the world came to life as giant moving images of the three-headed Ghidorah, the winged Mothra, the…
This is the final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back. In this remarkable book, Ian Kershaw has created a grand panorama of the world we live in and where it came from. Drawing on examples from all across Europe, The Global Age…
DUBAI: A Sikh temple in Dubai has opened its doors to Muslims during Islam’s fasting month of Ramadan, offering them room to pray and a free meal to break their daily fast.The Guru Nanak Darbar gurdwara — a place of worship in the Sikh religion — is building on Sikhism’s core principles of giving and…
PARIS: Japan’s Naomi Osaka battled back from a set and a break down to reach the Roland Garros second round on Tuesday while Grand Slam underachiever Alexander Zverev needed four hours to get through his opener. Top seed Osaka, bidding to add the French Open to her US and Australian Open titles, defeated Slovakia’s…
PARIS: Japan’s Naomi Osaka battled back from a set and a break down to reach the Roland Garros second round on Tuesday while Grand Slam underachiever Alexander Zverev needed four hours to get through his opener. Top seed Osaka, bidding to add the French Open to her US and Australian Open titles, defeated Slovakia’s…
CAIRO : Egyptian-born Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah is a hero to football fans around the world, and a source of pride for his fellow countrymen and people across the Arab world. But his high profile is a far cry from his humble origins, and Arab News spoke to his father to learn more about the player’s…
Russia will carefully consider extending its oil output reduction agreement with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producers, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov told Reuters on Wednesday. Moscow will weigh, in particular, the deal’s positive effect on oil prices against losses in market share to United States companies, he…
Russia will carefully consider extending its oil output reduction agreement with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and other producers, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Anton Siluanov told Reuters on Wednesday. Moscow will weigh, in particular, the deal’s positive effect on oil prices against losses in market share to United States companies, he…
HONG KONG: China’s Huawei Technologies has filed a motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit against the US government, in the telecoms equipment maker’s latest bid to fight sanctions from Washington that threaten to push it out of global markets.The motion, filed late on Tuesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of…
MULTAN: Pakistan says it arrested six men accused of raising funds for an outlawed Pakistan-based group that claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed 40 Indian troops in Kashmir earlier this year.Sarfraz Ahmad, an official at the counter-terrorism department, said on Wednesday that the six appeared before a judge in the city of Gujranwala.…
MULTAN: Pakistan says it arrested six men accused of raising funds for an outlawed Pakistan-based group that claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed 40 Indian troops in Kashmir earlier this year.Sarfraz Ahmad, an official at the counter-terrorism department, said on Wednesday that the six appeared before a judge in the city of Gujranwala.…
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host Chinese President Xi Jinping this year for an informal summit, an Indian foreign ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, after meeting several times over the past year to try to defuse tension.The two held their first informal summit in Wuhan in April 2018 and at that meeting…
CAIRO: A prominent Egyptian militant wanted for scores of terror attacks in his country was handed over by Libyan forces loyal to a commander pushing to take the capital of Tripoli and flown back to Egypt on Wednesday.Egyptian TV networks aired footage of a blindfolded Hisham El-Ashmawi, a former army officer turned militant, landing in…
BEIRUT: Government air strikes on extremist-controlled northwestern Syria on Wednesday killed at least 10 civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group reported.Seven of them were killed in the village of Sarja, which lies in Idlib province, most of which is controlled by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, a group dominated by former members of Al-Qaeda’s…
DUBAI: Arab Coalition started an operation targeting Houthi militants in Al-Dhale province, the organization announced. “the operation is in accordance with international and humanitarian law, we have taken all precautions to protect the civilians,” the Coalition said. The Coalition asked the civilians to refrain from the targeted areas. “The operation in Al-Dhale aims to reduce the…
RIYADH: The Minister of Justice and President of Supreme Judicial Council, Sheikh Walid bin Mohammed Al-Samaani, has adopted six regulations for the implementation of a decision to abolish the jurisdiction of notaries following a pilot program partially implemented in Riyadh about four months ago.The decree allows the beneficiaries to carry out documentation operations on real…
