NEW YORK: There is more at stake in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than peace and security in the Middle East, according to Abdulla Shahid, the president of the UN General Assembly. The reputation of the global community and its ability to work together to resolve international disputes, in keeping with the founding vision of the UN,…
DUBAI: Veteran photographer Ramesh Shukla has lived in the UAE for the best part of five decades. He arrived from his native India just as the former Trucial States were approaching independence from Britain and embarking on a remarkable journey of nation building.Now 84 years old, he witnessed firsthand the UAE’s evolution from a collection…
DUBAI: Veteran photographer Ramesh Shukla has lived in the UAE for the best part of five decades. He arrived from his native India just as the former Trucial States were approaching independence from Britain and embarking on a remarkable journey of nation building.Now 84 years old, he witnessed firsthand the UAE’s evolution from a collection…
CHICAGO: The Iranian regime has sanctioned a “campaign of hate” to fuel public animosity against the country’s Baha’i religious community, Baha’i officials told Arab News. Anthony Vance, Baha’i public affairs director in the US, said Iran has adopted laws that target its 300,000 Baha’is, barring them from universities and public sector employment, as well as…
LONDON: The South African government’s withdrawal of support for a beauty pageant contestant intent on competing in Israel has been welcomed by human rights groups. The government said it had “proven difficult” to convince the Miss South Africa pageant organizers to “reconsider their decision” to participate in the Miss Universe competition, due to be held…
DUBAI: The Muslim World League has launched an exhibition on the lives of the prophets at its Expo 2020 Dubai pavilion. “The Prophets As If You See Them” uses the latest technology to present the biographies of Islam’s prophets and messengers. It sheds light on the messages of peace, love, affection, tolerance, coexistence, and humanity…
DUBAI: The Muslim World League has launched an exhibition on the lives of the prophets at its Expo 2020 Dubai pavilion. “The Prophets As If You See Them” uses the latest technology to present the biographies of Islam’s prophets and messengers. It sheds light on the messages of peace, love, affection, tolerance, coexistence, and humanity…
AMMAN: Amid a delay in rainfall, Jordan’s major dams are either completely empty or facing critically low water levels, putting the country on the verge of an unprecedented drought crisis should dry weather conditions persist. Of the kingdom’s 14 major dams, three are now empty, according to officials, who said that emergency plans are being…
AMMAN: Amid a delay in rainfall, Jordan’s major dams are either completely empty or facing critically low water levels, putting the country on the verge of an unprecedented drought crisis should dry weather conditions persist. Of the kingdom’s 14 major dams, three are now empty, according to officials, who said that emergency plans are being…
BEIRUT: Lebanon continued its freefall into economic turmoil on Friday, with the medical, fuel, and food crises worsening and no political initiative being taken to overcome the deteriorating situation. The value of the Lebanese pound dropped to record lows, trading at 23,000 Lebanese pounds to the dollar on the black market. This crash was at least…
Turkey stops flying migrants to Belarus amid Polish border crisis, Iraq offers ‘voluntary’ repatriation ANKARA: Turkey banned Syrian, Yemeni and Iraqi citizens from flights to Minsk on Friday, potentially closing off one of the routes used by migrants that the EU says have been flown in by Belarus to create a deliberate humanitarian crisis on…
ANKARA: Poland, Belarus and Turkey are at the center of a refugee crisis after thousands of migrants from Syria, Iraq and Yemen have become trapped at the Polish border, having been denied entry into Poland and prevented from re-entering Belarus. The crisis has now acquired an international dimension with NATO and Brussels on alert. Since…
AL-MUKALLA: Arab coalition warplanes on Wednesday night struck Houthi-controlled military sites in the Yemeni capital and Saada province, as government forces on the ground fought to push back the militia from Marib province. Coalition spokesman Brig. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki said military sites were targeted in Sanaa and Saada, where ballistic missiles, weapons and explosive-rigged drones…
Iran will ratify the terms of the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change only if economic sanctions aimed against it come to an end, the country’s environment chief has told the BBC. Ali Salajegheh, head of the Islamic Republic’s Department of Environment, alleged that sanctions were impeding Iran’s growth in areas such as renewable energy.…
BEIRUT: The Iranian national football team has visited Lebanon on several occasions to compete in the Asian qualifiers. But this week, the Iranian team arrived in a very different set of circumstances, playing Lebanon on Thursday amid a wave of political quarreling and accusations that Tehran is taking over the country and isolating it from…
CAIRO: The US reaffirmed its support for Egypt’s water security, in the final statement of the strategic dialogue between the two countries. Washington and Cairo called for the resumption of negotiations on an agreement on the filling and operation of Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam under the auspices of the African Union president, in line with the presidential…
CAIRO: The US reaffirmed its support for Egypt’s water security, in the final statement of the strategic dialogue between the two countries. Washington and Cairo called for the resumption of negotiations on an agreement on the filling and operation of Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam under the auspices of the African Union president, in line with the presidential…
MOSUL / BOGOTA: Caked in the fine yellow dust kicked up by his tractor-drawn planter, Farman Noori Latif jumps down to survey his work. He has spent the morning sowing wheat seed on his farm near the banks of the Tigris River, just south of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is late in the season to…
Philippine COVID-19 authorities ‘not in touch with realities in Gulf countries’ – migrant labor expert DUBAI: Philippine authorities dealing with the coronavirus pandemic are not attuned to the COVID-19 situation in Gulf countries, further exasperating overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the region who want to have a hassle-free return home, a migrant expert said.“They do…
Philippine COVID-19 authorities ‘not in touch with realities in Gulf countries’ – migrant labor expert DUBAI: Philippine authorities dealing with the coronavirus pandemic are not attuned to the COVID-19 situation in Gulf countries, further exasperating overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the region who want to have a hassle-free return home, a migrant expert said.“They do…
