New Delhi, India -- A blockbuster between India and Pakistan headlines the Asia Cup starting on Tuesday as they face...
- Venice, Italy - At its premiere, a powerful new Gaza film at the Venice Film Festival sparked 23 minutes of...
DUBAI, UAE – Dubai Customs has experienced a robust 13 percent increase with 21.6 million transactions during the first nine...The upswing aligns with the targets of Dubai’s economic agenda D33, which seeks to double foreign trade.
By the end of the third quarter of 2023, Dubai Customs had processed approximately 18.8 million customs declarations.
DUBAI - An investigation carried out by Israeli police has concluded that Hamas, involved in the October 7 attack, had...The police probe revealed that an Israeli military helicopter arrived at the scene and opened heavy fire.
The development comes as Israel revised the official death toll of the October 7 attacks, lowering the figure to around 1,200 people.
"The killing of so many people at schools turned shelters, hundreds fleeing for their lives from Al-Shifa Hospital, amid continuing...All 31 premature babies at Al-Shifa hospital had been evacuated Sunday from the facility which the WHO has described as a "death zone".
A deal to free hostages Hamas seized in its October 7 attack on Israel now hinges on "minor" practical issues, Qatar's prime minister said.
Officials will include the foreign ministers of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Indonesia,...Following the outbreak of war last month, Chinese officials including Foreign Minister Wang Yi have called for an immediate ceasefire and a "cooling down" of the situation.
China has historically been sympathetic to the Palestinians and supported a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Paris, France -- National climate policy action across the countries that produce nearly two-thirds of total greenhouse gas emissions only...National climate policy action across the countries that produce nearly two-thirds of total greenhouse gas emissions only increased by 1% in 2022, lowest since 2000.
In contrast, between 2000 and 2021, national climate policy action increased by an average of 10 percent a year, according to a new OECD analysis of policy adoption.
- PARIS, FRANCE - Rarely a month goes by without big tech companies getting fined for price fixing, squashing competitors or misusing...
Ireland's data regulator confirmed that Meta has not paid any of the US$2.2 billion in fines issued since last September.
Amazon is still appealing against a US$812 million fine from 2021, Luxembourg's data regulator said.
Two years after attaining statehood, the world's newest nation collapsed into a civil war that claimed 400,000 lives before a...The coalition of 12 opposition parties gathered in Juba to demand unimpeded access to participate in the country's first national elections since 2011
President Salva Kiir, South Sudan's only ruler since independence, has vowed to hold elections in 2024 -- nine years behind the original schedule
Announced in February 2021, Saudi Arabia's regional headquarters (RHQ) program is widely seen as a bid to compete with Dubai...So far, 162 regional headquarters licenses have been granted in sectors including pharmaceuticals, IT and construction, "with many others being processed", the ministry said.
The program is "an early litmus test of the degree to which foreign businesses are prepared or willing to comply with and buy into Saudi initiatives", an analyst said.
- Tehran, Iran-- Expressing deep concern over Israel's possession of nuclear weapons, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has warned of a...
Fidan said the failure to denuclearize the region will ramp up the nuclear arms race in the region and the wider world, leading to increased nuclearization in the area
The foreign minister said the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation were playing crucial roles in addressing the Gaza crisis on the international stage
- The Washington Post, citing unnamed sources, said all parties would halt combat operations for at least five days while some...
A White House official said they were continuing to work hard to get to a deal
Times of Israel quoted PM Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that "as of now there is no deal"
