Fri, 2020-10-02 19:39 DUBAI: At a time when coronavirus cases are rising worldwide, fear of contracting COVID-19 is actually falling, surveys in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and several Western countries suggest. Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the pandemic on … read more
Fri, 2020-10-02 18:23 RIYADH: The world’s urban centers are, more than ever, pivotal to fostering global change, the vice chair of a G20-linked Saudi summit has claimed. Cities now consume more than two-thirds of the world’s energy and account for … read more
Fri, 2020-10-02 18:24 LONDON: Lebanon has asked Interpol to issue arrest warrants for two Russians who transported material into Beirut port which exploded on August 4. Almost 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrates were shipped into the port in 2013 and … read more
Author: Reuters ID: 1601585391391583500 Thu, 2020-10-01 20:30 ALGIERS: US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made a rare visit to Algeria on Thursday for talks with the president about war-torn Libya and the troubled Sahel region to the south of the … read more
Thu, 2020-10-01 22:45 CAIRO: The Egyptian government has extended the duration of a number of policies and incentives designed to boost the country’s struggling tourism sector, which has been badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The measures include the waiving of … read more