Thu, 2020-07-16 21:10 DUBAI: Students in the UAE are preparing to return to schools in September after a six-month shutdown because of COVID-19. But for many parents, the unprecedented period has sparked an interest in alternative ways to educate their … read more
Author: Thu, 2020-07-16 20:26 BEIRUT: Sanitation and good hygiene are the best defenses against coronavirus, but constant cleaning and disinfection puts cleaners and anyone they come into contact with at risk of the disease. Enter the robots. Two Lebanese engineering … read more
Wed, 2020-07-15 20:36 TUNIS: Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh resigned on Wednesday, according to two official sources who did not want to be named, after a row with the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party. Fakhfakh, who is under investigation over allegations of … read more
Wed, 2020-07-15 19:17 CAIRO: Egypt has asked Ethiopia for urgent clarification on whether it had started filling its Grand Renaissance dam on the Blue Nile, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. It was Cairo’s first official reaction after Ethiopia’s water minister … read more
Wed, 2020-07-15 17:58 LONDON: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian national imprisoned by Tehran on charges of espionage, is running out of time if she is to have another child, according to her husband Richard Ratcliffe, who has appealed to Iran’s Foreign Minister … read more