Author: Reuters ID: 1594646230425836400 Mon, 2020-07-13 13:14 MANAMA: Bahrain will add 177 million dinars ($470 million) to its 2020 state budget in emergency expenditures arising from fighting the new coronavirus pandemic, state news agency BNA said on Monday, citing a … read more
Author: Reuters ID: 1594640026905428200 Mon, 2020-07-13 10:48 ISTANBUL: Turkey will inform the United Nation’s cultural body UNESCO about changes to Istanbul’s ancient Hagia Sophia after Ankara converted the museum back into a mosque, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday. … read more
Author: Mon, 2020-07-13 02:25 AL-MUKALLA: Locust swarms have swept over farms in central, southern and eastern parts of Yemen, ravaging crops and stoking fears of food insecurity. Residents and farmers in the provinces of Marib, Hadramout, Mahra and Abyan said … read more
Author: Mon, 2020-07-13 02:21 KAIROUAN, TUNISIA: Over WhatsApp from Tunisia, Taheyya has watched her grandchildren grow up in Syria, where her son joined a militant group. She hopes one day to be able to hold the three surviving siblings in … read more
Author: Mon, 2020-07-13 02:15 BEIRUT: Lebanon’s markets are slowly dying due to the severe economic turmoil, which reached its peak during the last three months. The antiques market thrived for decades, even surviving the civil war and its horrors, but … read more