Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism
:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »
Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »
Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »
Daily Archives: July 9, 2014
West Africa’s misguided war on drugs
By: Kofi Annan A recent estimate by the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics that the market for illegal drugs adds $7.6 billion annually to the country’s economy gives a sense of the astonishing scale of the illicit narcotics trade.
Kuwait: Past and present
By: Abdulateef Al-Mulhim One of the members of the GCC, Kuwait is smaller than the size of New Jersey, US. With a total population of about four million — only 50 percent of which are Kuwaitis — the total area
Abbas bungles yet another opportunity
By: Osama Al Sharif It is difficult to understand the strategy of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, if he has any, following the brutal murder of an Arab youth in occupied Jerusalem last week, apparently by a group of radical Jews.
Violence can’t resolve fresh Mideast crisis
By: Bikram Vohra On June 12, three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped while hitchhiking in the West Bank. This was widely reported and generally condemned. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the kidnapping on Hamas — a move probably aimed at hurting
Men flee with dismembered arm in India attack
Attackers cut off the left hand of a man and then went off with his dismembered arm over a dispute on the victim’s love affair with a local girl, UAE-based daily Gulf News reported on Sunday. The 25-year-old victim was
Asia’s military revolution
By: Yoon Young-kwan A vast revolution in military affairs is taking place across East Asia. The latest signs are Chinese President Xi Jinping’s purge of Gen. Xu Caihou, an ex-Politburo member and former vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, on
Chinese newspaper posts map of A-bombed Japan
A Chinese newspaper published a map of Japan with mushroom clouds rising above Hiroshima and Nagasaki, provoking outrage Tuesday from Tokyo’s foreign minister, who is from the first of the cities to be obliterated. Tensions between the Asian powers are
Khamenei: Nuclear team ‘will defend Iran’s rights’
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday the country’s nuclear negotiating team at talks in Vienna will defend “the rights of the nation” in negotiations with world powers. “We trust the negotiating team and are sure they will
Libya’s Sharara oilfield restart another breakthrough for Tripoli
Libya’s oil sector took another big step back to normality with the restarting of an oilfield that could double its current meagre crude output, a week after blockades ended at major ports. The 340,000 barrels per day El Sharara oilfield
Why terrorists target Saudi Arabia
By: Mohammed Fahad Al-Harthi The recent terror attack on the Yemeni-Saudi border has highlighted yet again that the country is a target because of its powerful economy and strategic position in the Middle East, but also that terrorists are exploiting
King’s Ramadan gift: 1,017 prisoners freed
Authorities are working around-the-clock to examine the cases of eligible prisoners including expatriates to be released from the Kingdom’s jails in Ramadan, Brig. Ahmed Abdullah Al-Shahrani, director of prisons in Jeddah, said on Tuesday. In an interview with Arab News,
Envoy seeks pardon for Pakistani prisoners
Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, received Pakistani Ambassador Muhammad Naeem Khan, who is also the assistant secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Tuesday. They discussed a number of issues facing Pakistani expats in
Khamenei says Iran ‘needs more centrifuges’
Iran’s supreme leader revealed Tuesday that it ultimately wants 190,000 nuclear centrifuges — a figure he said was 19 times higher than world powers want to allow under a deal being discussed in Vienna. The comments, published on Ayatollah Ali
U.S. urges countries to combat foreign fighters going to Syria
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urged countries in Europe and elsewhere on Tuesday to do more to keep their own citizens from traveling to Syria to fight, saying the world cannot allow Syria to become a training ground for violent
UN team on Kashmir asked to leave premises in India
NEW DELHI: India has asked a United Nations military observer group on Kashmir to vacate a government-provided bungalow in New Delhi, in a toughening stance against a mission that Indians have long opposed. New Delhi considers the whole of Kashmir
Radical Buddhists want Pope Francis to apologize
COLOMBO: A Buddhist group accused of instigating recent attacks on Muslims in Sri Lanka says Pope Francis must apologize to Buddhists for atrocities allegedly committed by Christian colonial rulers of the South Asian island nation when he visits next year.
Klose scores 16th World Cup goal to break all-time record
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil: Germany striker Miroslav Klose scored after 23 minutes of the World Cup semi-final against Brazil on Tuesday to become the tournament’s all-time leading scorer with 16 goals. Klose had moved level with former Brazil striker Ronaldo on
Oil hits month low below $110 in 7-day losing streak
NEW YORK: Brent crude fell for its seventh straight session, hitting a one-month low below $110 a barrel on improved prospects for a rise in Libyan oil exports and easing fears of supply disruption in Iraq. The benchmark is headed
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