BEIRUT: Employees of Lebanon’s state-owned television channel Tele Liban began an open-ended strike on Thursday in a dispute over salaries and unpaid social assistance. Work in the news and program departments stopped. However, technicians continued to broadcast recorded music “to … read more
Egypt and Turkiye are confident of a breakthrough in levels of industrial cooperation following talks between senior ministers. Ahmed Samir, the Egyptian minister of trade and industry, met with Mehmet Fatih Kacir, the Turkish minister of industry and technology, to … read more
LONDON: Thousands of women in Arab and Muslim countries will risk dying during childbirth and from preventable conditions due to recent UK aid cuts, NGO officials have told Arab News. A similar verdict was issued as part of an internal … read more
AL-MUKALLA: The Yemeni riyal rose against the dollar on Wednesday for the first time in months, less than a day after Saudi Arabia announced $1.2 billion in aid to save Yemen’s economy. The beleaguered currency jumped from 1,420 against the … read more
WAD MADANI, Sudan: Desperate to check on her elderly mother amid the chaos of Sudan’s war, Amal Hassan left her family home in the capital Khartoum on May 30. She has yet to return. Her husband and three children in … read more