There’s something profound about the irony. The world’s highest coronavirus death tolls belong to two countries whose leaders came to power promising the restoration of greatness and control – the United States and Great Britain. Neither can claim t...
Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said that slowly removing lockdowns is key to reviving economies, noting a “great deal of success” in slowing the spread of the coronavirus, but added that ...
In light of COVID-19 crisis, UN officials Monday called for the immediate release of Palestinian children held in Israeli detention centers. In a joint press statement, Jamie McGoldrick, Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian territory...
Gulf stock markets lost ground in early trade on Monday, with Saudi Arabia’s index falling the most after the kingdom said it will triple its value-added tax rate and suspend a cost of living allowance for state employees to shore up its finances. T...
Iraq's pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), known in Arabic as Hashd al-Sha'abi, says its anti-terror fighters have killed a top leader of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in eastern province of Diyala. In an interview with Arabic-langu...
A US report confirmed that radical changes will take place in Saudi Arabia, the most prominent of which is the lifestyle of its citizens in the near future, adding that the Saudis will not live as their parents lived and they see that the oil price ...
The US military is removing Patriot antimissile systems from Saudi Arabia as part of a shift of forces and equipment in the region, a US official confirmed. The Wall Street Journal first reported o Thursday that Washington is moving four Patriot mi...
The new coronavirus has now infected 4,101,641 people and killed 280,435 others globally, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The United States remains the worst-hit nation, with more than 1,340,000 cases of infection and over 80,000 deaths...
Iran's permanent ambassador to the United Nations office in Geneva has criticized the United States for attempting to extend an arms embargo against the Islamic Republic, saying the US must be held to account for taking advantage of the UN Security C...
A high-ranking official with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has denounced any form of normalization of ties with the Israeli Enemy regime as a crime that cannot be absolved. Speaking through the video link at an Arab forum on Fr...
The United States has reportedly established a new military base in Syria’s oil-rich eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr after bringing in reinforcements to the war-torn Arab country. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) quoted reli...
President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas said Palestine will nullify all agreements with the United States and the Zionist entity if the Tel Aviv regime annexes any part of the occupied West Bank, urging the international community to blo...
Bethan McKernan Middle East correspondent of the Guardian wrote a report about the aggression on Yemen. At the beginning of this year, the UN’s special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, praised the country’s warring parties for largely sticking to a ...
The head of the Arab Businessmen Union, Hamdi Al-Tabbaa, estimated that the losses of the Arab economy due to the Corona pandemic would amount to approximately $ 323 billion. Al-Tabbaa based his estimates, based on a recent report by the Internationa...
The UK economy is heading for its worst crash in more than 300 years because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new forecast from the Bank of England. The central bank said Thursday that the British economy could shrink by 14% this year....
The World Health Organization (WHO) is lacking $1.3 billion for its coronavirus response in 2020, Director-General of WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday. “The updated plan estimates that WHO requires $1.7 billion dollars to respond to COVID...
With much of the American economy in self-imposed shutdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, April’s colossal surge in unemployment delivered a historic blow to workers. The US economy lost 20.5 million jobs in April, the Bureau of Labor Statis...
The Saudi government issued a ministerial decision on Sunday to regulate the labor contract during exceptional circumstances caused by the coronavirus outbreak. It stipulates reducing salaries in the private sector by 40 percent with the possibility...
The United States is pulling its Patriot missile systems from Saudi soil as part of broader curbs on its military support for the Arab kingdom, a report says. Citing unnamed US officials, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that four Patrio...
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit the town of Damavand in northern Tehran province, Iran’s Seismic Monitoring Center said. Several aftershocks ranging from 2 to 2.5 degrees hit Tehran and its neighboring cities after the first quake hit the capital, t...