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: November 9, 2014
Syrian army airstrikes near Aleppo kill 21
At least 21 people were killed and around 100 wounded when Syrian army planes bombed a town in northern Syria that is controlled by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, a group monitoring the war said on Sunday.
Yemen kidnappers free U.N. water engineer, says world body
The United Nations said a Sierra Leonean water engineer working in Yemen on a sanitation project had been freed more than a year after being kidnapped by unidentified armed men. “Colleagues at the United Nations are delighted that James Massaquoi,
Kuwait says stateless to be offered Comoros citizenship
Tens of thousands of stateless people in oil-rich Kuwait will be offered citizenship of the impoverished African nation of Comoros to end their decades-old problem, the government said Sunday. The stateless people — known as bidoons — would be granted
British detectives question ‘terror plot’ four
British authorities extended the detention of four men, held on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack, for seven days during which detectives will begin another round of questioning, Agence France-Presse reported. The four men, whose ages range between 19-27, were
The 5G network: When will it launch and what is it?
The internet has come a long way. More than a third of the world’s population is online, smart devices are growing ever-more popular, and mobile broadband subscriptions are expected to grow to 7.9 billion by 2019 from the current 2.9
Ericsson pushes eastwards to capitalize on hunger for advanced networks
Founded in 1876, Sweden’s Ericsson has seen it all. The telecom company has in recent years seen a push eastwards, the significance of which was highlighted with North American operators cutting investment in high-speed networks. The world number one mobile
What to do when technology makes jobs obsolete
By : Andrew McAfee World Economic Forum – Future Global Agenda series Technology is enabling us to achieve remarkable things, yet it’s rendering many jobs obsolete. How will the world of work change over the coming years? Andrew McAfee, Co-Director
Can ISIS maintain the ‘Caliphate’ without Baghdadi?
By : Dr. Theodore Karasik News reports that the United States-led coalition attacked successfully a 10-truck Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) convoy outside Mosul injured top leaders of ISIS including, as reports suggest, its leader and self-appointed caliph,
The West isn’t duty-bound to solve Arab problems
By : Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor While it’s true that Western powers can’t claim to have clean hands in the Middle East, Arabs don’t either. Most of the Arab leaderships have consistently shrugged off their responsibility to defend their own
Trading in shares of Kingfisher suspended
NEW DELHI: Trading in the shares of bankrupt Kingfisher Airlines will be suspended, India’s two main trading exchanges announced Saturday, putting another nail in the coffin of the carrier founded by self-crowned “King of Good Times” tycoon Vijay Mallya. The
Sunni extremism vs. Shiite extremism
By : Abdulrahman al-Rashed The only argument that I have heard in response to what I wrote two days ago about the dangers of extremism – which is still spreading despite the huge magnitude of the chronological events – is
Customs impasse is WTO’s ‘most serious crisis’
BEIJING: An impasse over a global pact to streamline customs procedures poses “the most serious crisis the WTO has faced” and has paralyzed all negotiations in the trade body, its chief Roberto Azevedo said. A draft of the so-called Trade
How the Gaza attacks can blow Palestine recognition efforts
Analysed By: Rajia Aboulkheir and Mustapha Ajbaili The overnight bombing that targeted the homes of Fatah leaders in the Gaza Strip and which the movement blamed on Hamas threaten to tear up the Palestinian unity government and slow the international
Pakistan wins Chinese investment worth $42bn
BEIJING: China has promised Pakistan investment worth $42 billion, an official said, as Islamabad promised to help Beijing fight what it calls a terrorist threat in its far-west. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif oversaw the signing of 19 agreements and
Egypt’s Sinai evacuations: A case of displacement for security?
Analysed By: Sonia Farid Creating a buffer zone along the border with the Gaza Strip has been the Egyptian government’s priority since the Oct. 24 attack that killed more than 30 soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula. The plan, which promises
WHO: No Saudi travel curbs over coronavirus
The World Health Organization (WHO) is still abiding by its decision to not impose any restrictions on personal travel or commercial movement to and from the Kingdom, despite a recent report of the Ministry of Health that 12 more cases
Despite election defeat, foreign policy is not ‘game over’ for Obama
From marauding jihadists in Iraq to pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine and beheadings of Americans in Syria, a world in crisis has fanned perceptions of an overwhelmed U.S. president and contributed to a Republican sweep of U.S. midterm elections. But the
Sri Lanka: UN rights chief’s language went too far
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Saturday accused the UN human rights chief of using “intemperate language” to vilify a member state when he said the island nation was attacking the integrity of the world body’s investigation into alleged wartime abuses. In
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