- Saudi capital Riyadh has been ranked as the third smartest capital among the G20 member states and the 30th smartest...
Riyadh made qualitative progress on the IMD Smart Cities Index for 2021, as it jumped 23 ranks from last year.
The Holy city of Madinah has been also included on the index as the second Saudi city after Riyadh, ranking 73rd in the world and fourth in the Arab world.
- Frances Haugen, the former Facebook engineer who leaked a trove of internal documents to international media, is due to speak...
The summit in Portugal's capital Lisbon is set to welcome some 40,000 people from Monday evening through Thursday.
Facebook has had to grapple in recent weeks with mass outages and rising calls for regulation to curb its vast influence.
- WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus bluntly told the G20 they could no longer leave poorer countries hanging in the pandemic.
The World Health Organization has said it needs $23.4 billion over the next 12 months for its plan to fight Covid-19
It has urged the G20 countries, who are meeting this weekend in Rome, to show some leadership and pay the amount
- US defense officials met in Ankara Wednesday with Turkish counterparts to resolve remaining issues from the F-35 program, and US...
The F-16 request could be discussed when US President Joe Biden meets with Erdogan
According to Turkish media, the country wants to buy 40 F-16s and kits to upgrade 80 warplanes in its current fleet
- Climate adaptation means adjusting to the current effects of climate change and preparing for its predicted impacts in the future.
The approach is crucial in developing countries, which are more vulnerable to extreme weather caused by climate change.
The cost of adapting to climate change in developing nations could reach $300 billion in 2030, said UNCTAD.
- Diab had filed a lawsuit against judge Tarek Bitar, who has been thwarted at every turn in his probe of...
Diab was prime minister at the time of the explosion and is among the senior officials Bitar wants to hear as part of his investigation.
Several of Lebanon's main political groups, including the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah, want Bitar removed., earning scorn from rights groups.
- Seven protesters have been killed in Sudan since a military coup four days ago, a health official said Thursday, adding...
Four protesters were already reported killed on Monday, hours after the military coup was announced
The diplomats pledged their support for the now-deposed government of Prime Minister Abddalla Hamdok
- Iran held six rounds of indirect negotiations in Vienna with President Joe Biden's administration on returning to the 2015 deal.
Iran held six rounds of indirect negotiations in Vienna with President Joe Biden's administration on returning to the 2015 deal
Biden, his successor, has said he is ready to re-enter the agreement so long as Iran also returns to full compliance by rolling back nuclear activities





















