Mon, 2020-11-02 00:41 QAH/SYRIA: Hassan Sweidat is terrified he will catch COVID-19 in the overcrowded displacement camp in northwest Syria he calls home, even more so as medical staff in the region have become sick. Humanitarian workers fear any further … read more
Sun, 2020-11-01 21:51 DUBAI: These days, social media is full of images and videos of children in various postures of remote learning, ranging from sleeping soundly on the study table to turning desks and chairs into makeshift swings. After months … read more
Author: AFP ID: 1604238587455848000 Sun, 2020-11-01 13:45 ANKARA: Turkey has extending research activities of its Oruc Reis seismic research vessel in the disputed waters of the eastern Mediterranean until Nov. 14. The move is likely to re-ignite regional tensions after … read more
Mon, 2020-11-02 00:59 ALGIERS: Polls opened in Algeria on Sunday for a vote on a revised constitution the regime hopes will neutralize a protest movement which at its peak last year swept long-time President Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power. Bouteflika’s successor … read more
Author: Sun, 2020-11-01 00:41 BAGHDAD: Iraqi authorities reopened Baghdad’s Tahrir Square on Saturday, symbolically ending more than a year of demonstrations at the site, a focal point for the country’s anti-government protest movement. They also reopened the nearby Jumhuriyah bridge, … read more