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: June 14, 2014
Poor sound quality irks music fans at World Cup ceremony
SAO PAULO: The World Cup got off to a faltering start on Thursday night when poor sound quality left many television viewers unable to enjoy the opening ceremony, The Telegraph reported. Jennifer Lopez took to the stage to sing the
Mojito marvel wins pasta world championships
ROME: A Mojito spaghetti special triumphed at the pasta world championships on Friday, while a chef from Switzerland snatched the top prize from rivals of Shanghai, South Africa and Malta. Luca Torricelli, chef at the “Argentino” in the Swiss city
Pak-American playwright finds his groove
In a sun-splashed rehearsal room recently at Lincoln Center, the knives were out for Ayad Akhtar’s new play. Its four-person cast and director were running through “The Who & The What” and it was agonizing, start-and-stop stuff. Virtually every line
Ex-president skydives on 90th birthday
WASHINGTON: Former US president George H.W. Bush celebrated his 90th birthday by carrying out his eighth parachute jump. “It’s a wonderful day in Maine — in fact, nice enough for a parachute jump,” tweeted the elder Bush, who has seemed
Chile beats Australia, heaps more pressure on Spain
CUIABA, Brazil: Chile helped pile the pressure on champions Spain after sealing an eventually comfortable 3-1 win over Australia in their World Cup Group B opener in Cuiaba on Friday. Early goals from Alexis Sanchez and Jorge Valdivia put the
Kaymer goes to 10 under for big US Open lead
PINEHURST, N.C.:Martin Kaymer has posted the best 36-hole score in the history of the US Open with his second straight 5-under 65. Taking advantage of a course softened by an overnight rain, Kaymer took his score to a 10-under 130
Harris the real deal as Texters win for twice-to-beat edge
MANILA: No one has said it when he came over, but after Friday night’s gargantuan effort, Paul Harris, though shorter than the other imports in the PBA Governors’ Cup, is indeed the perfect fit for Talk ‘N Text. Harris exploded
Peralta scores in Mexico’s 1-0 win over Cameroon
NATAL, Brazil: Mexico overcame the torrential rain and two disallowed goals to beat Cameroon 1-0 on Friday, picking up the three points it needed to have any chance of advancing from a tough group at the World Cup. Oribe Peralta
Netherlands stuns champions Spain 5-1 in World Cup
RIO DE JANEIRO: Robin van Persie and Arjen Robben scored twice each as the Netherlands avenged its 2010 World Cup final defeat to Spain with a record 5-1 drubbing of the defending champions on Friday. Van Persie pounced in each
Southeast Asia hub of global pirate attacks: UN
GENEVA: Southeast Asia has become the world’s hotspot for pirate attacks after an international clampdown slashed the number of hijackings off the coast of war-torn Somalia, the UN said Thursday. Last year 28 boats were attacked in the western Indian
US quietly transfers 12 Afghanistan prisoners
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration has quietly repatriated a dozen detainees from a small US military prison in Afghanistan, moving a modest step closer toward winding down the country’s controversial post-9/11 detainee system. A French national, a Kuwaiti and 10 Pakistani
Mosquito-borne chikungunya virus spreading in US
TAMPA, Florida: A painful, mosquito-borne viral illness has surfaced across the United States, carried by recent travelers to the Caribbean where the virus is raging. Health officials in North Carolina, Nebraska and Indiana this week reported the first confirmed chikungunya
HK ‘drug smugglers’ face death in Indonesia
JAKARTA: Two Hong Kong men including a 17-year-old have been arrested trying to smuggle almost $600,000 worth of crystal methamphetamine into Indonesia, an offence punishable by death, an official said Friday. The teenager was the youngest ever person caught trying
4 charged over gang-rape of two teens in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian courts have charged four, including a father and his son, over the gang-rape of two teenage girls, police said Friday, in a case that has sparked outrage in the country. The four, including two minors, were all
Families flee as fighting surges in Pakistan
KABUL: Hundreds of Pakistani families have fled from a surge of fighting between Pakistani government forces and militants into neighboring Afghanistan, an Afghan government official said on Friday. The government forces have been launching air strikes against Pakistani Taleban fighters
Israel looks for 3 missing Jewish teens in West Bank
JERUSALEM: Israeli forces are searching for three Jewish teenagers who went missing in the occupied West Bank late on Thursday, the military said on Friday. As media speculated that the trio might have been abducted, large numbers of Israeli soldiers
Doha to pay salaries of ex-Hamas employees
RAMALLAH: Qatar is stepping in temporarily to help the new Palestinian unity government pay former employees of Hamas’s disbanded Gaza government, an official said Friday. The Gulf state said it would contribute a total of $60 million while the Palestinian
Egypt cop shot dead in clashes
CAIRO: A policeman was shot dead in the aftermath of clashes in Cairo on Friday, Egypt’s Interior Ministry said, after a protest staged by supporters of ousted President Muhammad Mursi. The policeman was hit by a bullet in the chest
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