ANKARA: As the Turkish presidential elections head for a runoff between incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan and opposition challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu on May 28, the country’s weak economy continues to be the main focus of domestic and international attention. Staggering inflation … read more
RIYADH: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center’s team stationed in Sudan met with World Food Programme officials on Tuesday. The team met with the head of the WFP in Port Sudan Hafiz Ibrahim and the organization’s head of … read more
DUBAI: Syria’s embattled President Bashar Assad received an invitation to attend the upcoming COP28 climate talks in Dubai later this year, even as the yearslong war in his country over his rule grinds on. Assad’s invite, late on Monday, to the … read more
RIYADH: An ongoing Saudi program to clear landmines in Yemen saw 896 devices laid by the Iran-backed Houthis dismantled in the second week of May. Overseen by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, special teams destroyed 11 anti-personnel mines, … read more
BEIRUT: A French investigative judge on Tuesday issued an international arrest warrant for Riad Salameh, Lebanon’s central bank governor, after he failed to appear for questioning on corruption charges. Salameh was supposed to appear before French prosecutors as part of … read more