DUBAI: Tasneem Alsultan has established herself as one of the most sought-after, and talented, photographers in the region. She describes herself as “a photographer interested in social and gender issues,” and even her wedding photography (with which she started her career and which continues to help fund her personal projects) eschews the usual portrait-style coverage…
SINGAPORE: Oil edged up on Thursday amid ongoing OPEC-led supply cuts and US sanctions against exporters Venezuela and Iran, but price gains were capped by record US crude output and rising commercial fuel inventories.US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures were at $56.31 per barrel at 0637 GMT, up 9 cents, or 0.2 percent,…
DOHA: Qatar has sold bonds worth $12 billion, the finance ministry said Thursday, attracting strong demand despite an economic and diplomatic boycott by its former Gulf allies.“The state of Qatar has achieved a successful return to the international financial markets with a total of three tranches — worth $12 billion,” said a ministry statement carried by…
TOKYO: Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn’s top lawyer vowed Thursday to mount a “thorough” defense to restore his client’s reputation, as the “tired” businessman spent his first day out of a Tokyo detention center recovering.“Of course he is tired,” Junichiro Hironaka told reporters camped outside his office.“He was taken into custody unexpectedly at the airport,…
SHENZHEN, China: Chinese tech giant Huawei is challenging a US law that labels the company a security risk and would limit its access to the American market for telecom equipment.Huawei Technologies’ lawsuit, announced Thursday, asks a federal court to throw out a portion of this year’s US military appropriations act that bars the government and…
SEOUL: Hyundai Motor Co. is considering plans to suspend production at its oldest plant in China as it reels from tumbling sales and massive overcapacity in its biggest market.The move by Hyundai, which together with affiliate Kia Motors was the No.3 automaker in China until 2016, highlights the reversal of fortunes in the world’s biggest…
JAMMU, India: Eighteen people were injured on Thursday when a grenade exploded at a bus stop in the Indian city of Jammu, in the restive state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. “It seems that the grenade was lobbed from outside (the premises) and it rolled under the bus and caused injuries to approximately 18…
JAMMU, India: Eighteen people were injured on Thursday when a grenade exploded at a bus stop in the Indian city of Jammu, in the restive state of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. “It seems that the grenade was lobbed from outside (the premises) and it rolled under the bus and caused injuries to approximately 18…
HONG KONG: The case of a Filipino domestic worker in Hong Kong who was sacked after being diagnosed with cervical cancer — leaving her without health care — shines a light on the exploitation of tens of thousands of foreign women who toil as maids in the wealthy city.A single mother of five, Baby Jane…
HONG KONG: The case of a Filipino domestic worker in Hong Kong who was sacked after being diagnosed with cervical cancer — leaving her without health care — shines a light on the exploitation of tens of thousands of foreign women who toil as maids in the wealthy city.A single mother of five, Baby Jane…
US Senator McSally, an Air Force veteran, says she was raped by a superior officer WASHINGTON: US Senator Martha McSally, the first female combat pilot in the US Air Force, said on Wednesday she had been raped by a superior officer but did not report it because she blamed herself and did not trust the…
BAGHDAD: An official with a mainly Shiite militia organization in Iraq says Daesh militants attacked a bus carrying the group’s forces in northern Iraq, killing six militiamen and wounding 31 fighters.The official from the government-sanctioned Popular Mobilization Forces told The Associated Press that the Wednesday night ambush took place near the town of Makhmour, south…
BENGHAZI, Libya: Libya’s parallel government in the east has sold bonds worth more than $23 billion to fund its wage bill, bypassing the central bank in Tripoli and creating a potential financial black hole if the country reunifies, bankers and diplomats said.The eastern government’s finance ministry has been selling the debt to a parallel central…
DUBAI: More than 30 Houthi militants, including a commander, were killed by Arab coalition raids aimed at militia reinforcements coming from Imran to the Hajar Front in the province of Hajjah in north-west Yemen. Coalition forces continued to supply Hajar tribes with food, medical, and logistical supplies, particularly in the besieged Qashar district of the…
ANKARA, Turkey: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed US threats to cancel the sale of high-tech F-35 jets to Turkey, saying his country will move ahead with the purchase of Russian S-400 air-defense missiles.In an interview with Kanal 24 television late Wednesday, Erdogan also said Turkey could consider purchasing the more advanced Russian S-500…
DUBAI: Dr. Fatmah Baothman is no ordinary Saudi woman. She embodies women’s empowerment in the Kingdom, as the first woman in the Middle East with a PhD in Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI). Her AI journey started when she was a student at the University of Arizona studying the English language. She was introduced to computer…
CAIRO: Saudi Arabia’s minister of state for African affairs on Wednesday pledged the Kingdom’s continued support for Palestine and Yemen at a top-level meeting of Arab states. Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz Kattan made the commitment on behalf of the country as he attended a ministerial session of the Arab League Council, being held at the…
FaceOf: Dr. Abdul Aziz bin Osman Al-Tuwaijiri, secretary-general of the Islamic, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Dr. Abdul Aziz bin Osman Al-Tuwaijiri has been the secretary-general of the Islamic, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) since 1991. Al-Tuwaijiri is also the ex-officio secretary-general of the ISESCO-affiliated Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World (FUIW).…
Riyadh : The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) has launched vocational training programs for female breadwinners in Aden and Lahij governorates as part of its continuous efforts to improve livelihoods in Yemen." As part of its mission to provide training and vocational rehabilitation and improving livelihoods in Yemen, the KSRelief has launched…
MADRID: Women’s rights have taken center stage in election campaigns for Spain’s left- and right-wing parties as International Women’s Day approaches even as ultra-conservative groups hit back at what they dub “radical feminism.”Unions, feminist associations and left-wing parties have called for a work stoppage for two hours on March 8, hoping to recreate the strike…
