BEIRUT, LEBANON - "Good morning, madame. This is the bank calling. Are you at home?"   Since the Israel-Hamas war broke out more than three months ago, residents of southern Lebanon have been receiving strange phone calls from Lebanese numbers and from people speaking in Lebanese accents. The voices on the...

GAZA, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES-  A relentless Israeli military campaign, in response to deadly Hamas attacks on October 7, has upset the lives of most, if not all, residents of the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces have launched a bombardment campaign and ground invasion of Gaza ever since Hamas launched its attack --...

Volker Turk exhorted for a ceasefire as the first step in order to save the lives of civilians through the delivery of quick and "effective humanitarian aid" in the Gaza Strip. He asserted that violence will never end unless leaders stand up and "take the humane choices that are required...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-- In order to boost the travel and tourism industry in the kingdom, Saudi Arabia will offer instant e-visa options to visitors, facilitating UK, US, and Schengen visa holders, as well as permanent residents of UK, US, and any EU country to obtain tourist e-visas. Saudi Arabia had...

Istanbul, Turkey--Fears of another major earthquake have been rekindled in Istanbul since the February 6 disaster that hit Turkey and Syria, but a prominent Turkish seismologist has reassured the risk "hasn't increased". "The risk hasn't increased because we are talking about completely different systems," Dogan Kalafat, the director of the...

Damascus, Syria-- Syrian student Ziad al-Ezz can no longer get to university as severe fuel shortages cripple the capital Damascus, pushing residents to seek alternatives for heating and shuttering businesses. With the country's economy battered by more than a decade of war, authorities have announced four fuel price hikes since the...

Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, has erupted for the first time in nearly 40 years, US authorities said, spewing lava and ash as emergency crews went on alert. Flows of lava remained mostly contained within the summit's massive caldera, but the eruption could pose a...

MENA residents' satisfaction and expectations about how services can and should be delivered have been radically altered due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The festival, In its seventh edition since it opened last month, has witnessed a great turnout from UAE citizens, residents, and visitors.

The homes of brothers Omar and Ghaith Jaradat and Mohammed Jaradat were demolished with explosives in Silat al-Harithiya village, near Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, by border police and the Israeli army.

Bahrain has launched ‘Golden Residency Visa’ for residents and non-residents with immediate processing of the applications electronically upon meeting the prescribed criteria.

Residents of Abu Dhabi have been directed to take a booster shot of the Sinopharm Covid vaccine by September 20, six months after taking the second dose of the vaccine.

Many individuals such as diplomatic missions exempted Cases of Delta variant have been found in many countries Seeking to keep out the new dangerous variants of the coronavirus, the UAE government would not allow citizens to travel to 14 countries on its no-go list. The no-go countries – India, Pakistan,...