Author: AFP ID: 1544121459306486600 Thu, 2018-12-06 17:51 DAMASCUS: Syria’s president on Thursday announced a budget for 2019 of almost $9 billion, of which around a third has been allocated to investment projects including in areas ravaged by the war. Seven … read more
Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1544106725645113000 Thu, 2018-12-06 17:32 LONDON: Qatar has burned its bridges with the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and aligned itself with “enemies of the region like Iran,” Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Al Khalifa has … read more
Author: Associated Press ID: 1544113162655784000 Thu, 2018-12-06 (All day) BANGHAZI: The chairman of Libya’s elections commission said the beleaguered North African nation will hold a referendum on a new constitution before the end of February. Thursday’s announcement by Emad Al-Sayeh in … read more
Author: AFP ID: 1544108373645259800 Thu, 2018-12-06 13:05 JERUSALEM: UN peacekeepers in Lebanon have confirmed the existence of a tunnel discovered by the Israeli military close to the blue line separating the two countries, it said in a statement on Thursday. The … read more
Thu, 2018-12-06 14:12 ABU DHABI: Pope Francis will visit Abu Dhabi in the UAE in February, the Vatican said on Thursday, in his seventh trip to a predominantly Muslim nation to call for inter-religious peace. The trip will take place from … read more