MANILA: Ten years on from the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in which 57 people died — including 32 journalists and media workers — justice has finally been served. On Thursday, Judge Jocelyn Solis Reyes of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 221 found the principal accused — led by key members of the powerful Ampatuan clan based…
BERLIN: Germany’s Parliament passed a resolution on Thursday calling for a national ban on the activities of Hezbollah and for the Lebanese militant group to be put on the EU’s terrorist list. Mathias Middelberg, the spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in Parliament, said the joint resolution was agreed upon with the junior coalition Social…
BEIRUT: Lebanon has named academic and former education minister Hassan Diab as its next prime minister in a bid to end two months of political stalemate that has gripped the country. Diab, vice president of the American University of Beirut, was nominated to head the next government by President Michel Aoun’s parliamentary bloc, along with…
BEIRUT: Lebanon has named academic and former education minister Hassan Diab as its next prime minister in a bid to end two months of political stalemate that has gripped the country. Diab, vice president of the American University of Beirut, was nominated to head the next government by President Michel Aoun’s parliamentary bloc, along with…
ALGIERS: Algeria’s new president pledged on Thursday to introduce presidential term limits and bring more young people into politics, as he tries to win over a pro-democracy movement that boycotted his election and forced out his long-serving predecessor. The gas-rich North African nation inaugurated Abdelmadjid Tebboune as president on Thursday in a pomp-filled ceremony. Members…
RIYADH: Riyadh is set to become the Arab world’s first digital capital city. The announcement was made on Wednesday at the 23rd session of the Council of Arab Ministers of Communications and Information Technology, held at The Ritz-Carlton hotel in the Saudi capital. The ministers’ decision to bestow the title on Riyadh came as a result…
RIYADH: Riyadh is set to become the Arab world’s first digital capital city. The announcement was made on Wednesday at the 23rd session of the Council of Arab Ministers of Communications and Information Technology, held at The Ritz-Carlton hotel in the Saudi capital. The ministers’ decision to bestow the title on Riyadh came as a result…
RIYADH: As the largest musical festival in the Middle East, MDL Beast will host some of the biggest names in the DJ world, including an impressive lineup of Saudi musicians. David Guetta, Tiesto, Martin Garrix, Black Coffee, Solomun, Marco Carola, and Saudi DJs, Khaled Al-Khaldi, known as K.LED, Mohanned Nassar, Majid Shamsan and Hatoon Idrees are…
DUBAI: Shooting for a joint Saudi-Emirati produced film has begun in earnest. The movie, called “One, Two, Three, Action,” is being produced by UAE’s ITP Media Group and Saudi Arabia’s N Stars Studio. The film, directed by Egyptian director, Shadi Lenin El-Ramly, features many actors from Saudi Arabia and the GCC. Also for the first…
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DUBAI: It’s a noteworthy coincidence that the 16-strong longlist of books vying for the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) have been announced in conjunction with Arabic Language Day. The novels, which were handpicked by an expert panel of five judges chaired by Muhsin al-Musawi, an Iraqi literary critic and professor at Columbia University,…
LONDON: Anthony Joshua has offered to be Tyson Fury’s sparring partner if it helps his fellow British fighter beat WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. Joshua has been left frustrated in his attempts to lure America’s Wilder into the ring as he bids to unify the division following his victory over Andy Ruiz Jr. last weekend. The…
RIYADH: The launch of the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia “will bring the world closer than ever to the hospitable people of the Kingdom,” Prince Abdul Aziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, chairman of the General Sports Authority, said. Speaking at a press conference in Qiddiya on Tuesday, Prince Abdul Aziz said the staging of the rally…
JEDDAH: The head of the Spanish Football Federation has praised the new format of the Spanish Super Cup that will be played in Saudi Arabia next month. Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Valencia will take part in the tournament in Jeddah - the first time four teams have played in the event instead of…
ALTAMIRA: Edizangela Alves Barros believed that being forced to relocate to make way for a mammoth dam in Brazil’s Amazon would mean a brighter future for her family. Instead, their newly built settlement has more expensive electricity bills and intermittent public lighting — a cruel irony for a community just 40 kilometers from the world’s…
TOKYO: Japan’s government raised its economic growth forecast for the next fiscal year, helped by an expected boost from a $122 billion fiscal package that would help cushion the hit from weaker global demand.The economy is now expected to expand 1.4 percent in price-adjusted real terms in the fiscal year starting April 2020, according to…
US monetary official warns of risks from rapid spread of Facebook’s bitcoin Libra FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Digital currencies can be risky, but Facebook’s Libra could be a massive challenge given the potential for rapid spread and the dubious safeguards, a Federal Reserve official said Wednesday.“Cryptocurrencies already pose a number of risks to the financial system,…
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump was impeached by the US House of Representatives Wednesday night, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution’s ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors.The historic vote split along party lines, much the way it has divided the nation, over a charge that the 45th…
MANILA: A top Philippines general in charge of the troubled Mindanao region has said that the popularity of Daesh had diminished “significantly” as trust in the government had grown and insurgents had been crushed by a continuing military offensive. The Philippines has been concerned that Daesh supporters from the region and those fleeing Iraq and…
KABUL: As he sifts through a pile of oranges at a market in Kabul, Shah Mahmoud expresses frustration at Washington’s failure to secure the country, despite 18 years of fighting. “We do not know what America is up to here. One day, they talk about increasing the presence of troops, then later warn about a…
