- On the big day for the Hashemite kingdom, a key Western ally, the royal red motorcade, reserved for special occasions,...
The eldest son of King Abdullah II will marry Saudi fiancee Rajwa Al Saif at the grand royal wedding with regional monarchs, US First Lady Jill Biden is also among the guests
Photos of Saif's henna bridal party took the internet by storm last week as she donned a white gown with an Arabic poetry verse embroidered: "When I see you, life becomes sweet"
- Iraq's supreme court ruled as unconstitutional the extended mandate of autonomous Kurdistan's parliament, rendering invalid votes taken by the chamber...
The president of the top federal court in Baghdad, found unconstitutional the year-long extension of the chamber's mandate.
As a result, decisions taken by the Kurdistan parliament since October 2022 "are constitutionally invalid", the judge said.
- Russia has for years been issuing passports to people living in the eastern Donbas areas held by pro-Moscow separatists since...
People from the occupied regions told AFP this month that they had been pressured into taking up a Russian passport.
The EU has said it will not recognize Russian passports issued by Moscow in the "illegally-occupied" regions of Ukraine.
- As drones struck in and around Moscow, Russian drones targeted Kyiv for a third straight day while Ukraine gears up...
The Russian defense ministry said that eight drones were used in the attack, adding that five of them were downed and three disabled.
Putin said Moscow's air defense had worked in a satisfactory manner, noting that the attacks were Kyiv's "response" to a Russian strike on Ukraine's army intelligence headquarters.
- ABU DHABI, UAE - The Economic Integration Committee held its second meeting this year and discussed a range of key...
The Committee also discussed strengthening of the Anti-Money Laundering/ Combating the Financing of Terrorism ( AML/CFT) efforts.
The meeting discussed cooperation between the federal and local authorities concerned with the implementation of various economy-related laws.
- A one-line statement signed by dozens of specialists, including Sam Altman whose firm OpenAI created the ChatGPT bot, said tackling...
ChatGPT has demonstrated an ability to generate essays, poems and conversations from the briefest of prompts -- and sparking billions of dollars in investments.
Critics and insiders have raised the alarm over everything from biased algorithms to the possibility of massive job losses as AI-powered automation seeps into daily life.
- Iranian media reports came just days before the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency is due to...
The IAEA's concerns about the sites are one of the remaining obstacles to the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, which was left in tatters by the withdrawal of the US in 2018.
The Marivan site in Abadeh county in the southern province of Fars is the first of the three sites to be addressed under a work plan agreed by Iran and the IAEA in March last year.
- Beirut, Lebanon--A Saudi national who had been kidnapped in Beirut has been freed in a "special operation" by the Lebanese army...
The army said that Saudi national Mashari al-Mutairi was freed from kidnappers in special operation by the army on the Syrian border
The Saudi national was kidnapped by unidentified assailants dressed as security personnel in a four-wheel drive vehicle on the Beirut seafront
- Neither the army nor the defence ministry commented on their role in Monday's developments at Homesh when contacted by journalists....
The journalists saw Israeli soldiers guarding around 20 people carrying out construction work at the Homesh site, which Israel evacuated nearly two decades ago
The latest development comes weeks after the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged his government had no plans to reconstruct the site
- Shenzhou-16 is the first mission to Tiangong since it entered its "application and development" stage, authorities said. Shenzhou-16 will carry out...
The Shenzhou-16 crew took off atop a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China at 9:31 am (0131 GMT)
The launch was a "complete success" and the "astronauts are in good condition", said Zou Lipeng, director of the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center





















