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 »
Category Archives: Asia
Sirisena victory delights Sri Lankan expats in Saudi Arabia
There was widespread jubilation among the 500,000-strong Sri Lankan expatriate community in the Kingdom as they savored the victory of Maithripala Sirisena over incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa in the presidential elections on Thursday. For the expatriates, it was a long night
Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa concedes election defeat
COLOMBO : Sri Lanka’s Mahinda Rajapaksa has conceded defeat in presidential elections, officials said, after a bitter campaign that saw Asia’s longest-serving leader brought down by allegations of corruption and a failure to bring about post-war reconciliation. After the island’s
Pings detected in hunt for AirAsia black boxes
Ping signals believed to be from the black box data recorders of crashed AirAsia Flight 8501 were detected Friday, a senior Indonesian search official said, offering strong hopes of explaining the disaster. “A ship detected the pings. The divers are
300 stranded Indian workers going home
A group of about 300 Indian workers, who were stranded after being duped by their recruitment agencies in India, are set to leave the Kingdom for their home country, with their sponsor finally agreeing to pay for the return journey
Bowled over by Reham: Meet new Mrs Imran Khan
ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan announced on Tuesday that he was becoming a married man, telling a press conference at his 200-acre Islamabad estate that “marriage is not a crime.” The 62-year-old, who arrived back in Pakistan on Tuesday after spending time
‘Why not!’ Big B on working with Rekha
MUMBAI: Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha are considered to be an all time popular on-screen pair in Bollywood and the megastar says he will not rule out the possibility of working with the veteran actress in future films. The two have
Indonesia says crashed AirAsia plane tail found
Recovery teams have found the tail of the crashed AirAsia Flight 8501 in the Java Sea, the Indonesian search chief said Wednesday, the eleventh day of relief operations. “We have successfully obtained part of the plane that has been our
New Pakistan envoy takes charge
A career diplomat and one of Pakistan’s top experts on the Middle East has taken up office as the country’s ambassador in Riyadh. Manzoor ul Haq, who was born in 1957, was Pakistan’s ambassador to Egypt before taking charge in
Indonesia naval captain says may have located missing plane’s tail
An Indonesian naval patrol vessel found on Monday what the captain said could be the tail of a missing AirAsia jet, the section where the crucial black box voice and flight data recorders are located. Ships and aircraft seeking debris
Sri Lanka monitor accuses ruling party of violating election rules
CMEV documents 420 incidents of violence and intimidation COLOMBO: Supporters of Sri Lanka’s ruling party has repeatedly violated election laws in the run-up to Thursday’s presidential vote and has largely got away with it because police have turned a
AirAsia search resumes, no black box signals yet
Indonesian navy divers resumed search efforts on Monday to identify whether the suspected wreckage was in fact part of missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, Reuters news agency reported. While no signals have been detected from black box recorders, ships and aircraft
BJP ‘terror boat’ claim questioned
NEW DELHI: India’s leading opposition party has launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government for trivializing national security issues by revealing dubious details about a suspicious boat that sank after being intercepted by the Coast Guard
‘Bigg Boss’ is Farah’s ‘Disneyland’
MUMBAI: Farah Khan has been roped in to host ‘Bigg Boss Halla Bol’ series, but the choreographer-filmmaker says she isn’t interested in entering the ‘Bigg Boss’ house. “I would never get into the house. I don’t think I need to
Pakistan: Airstrikes kill 31 militants near Afghan border
Pakistan’s army says its warplanes have killed 31 militants as part of an ongoing operation in a troubled tribal region near the Afghan border. An army statement says the airstrikes on Friday evening in the Tirrah valley of the Khyber
Pakistan issues death warrants for six more militants: official
Pakistan Saturday issued orders to hang six more militants, official said, the latest in a wave of executions in the wake of the Peshawar school massacre, which claimed 149 lives in the country’s deadliest terror attack. Among the six is
Pakistan, India trade fire in Kashmir, killing two
Pakistani and Indian border guards traded artillery fire along the disputed border region of Kashmir, killing two people and wounding eight, officials said Saturday. Both Pakistan and India blamed each other for starting the fire that began Friday night. This
Indonesia sends divers to examine AirAsia wreckage
Divers prepared Sunday to examine wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501 in hopes of retrieving the rest of the bodies and finding out more on what caused the plane to crash a week ago, the Associated Press reported. The divers are
2 brothers arrested in India over rape of Japanese tourist
PATNA, India: Indian police have arrested two brothers accused of repeatedly raping a 22-year-old Japanese tourist over three weeks near Bodh Gaya, Buddhism’s holiest site, an official said Saturday. The tourist had been held hostage at gunpoint in a secluded
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