ID: 1674076768507150800 Wed, 2023-01-18 00:20 ALGIERS: An Algerian businessman and activist imprisoned for urging a boycott of the country’s 2019 presidential election was released Wednesday, a rights group said, after he announced this month he would quit politics. Rachid Nekkaz … read more
Wed, 2023-01-18 22:37 BEIRUT: The Lebanese caretaker government held its second session amid the presidential vacuum on Wednesday. The ministers of the Free Patriotic Movement boycotted the session, arguing that a caretaker government has no right to hold sessions to … read more
Wed, 2023-01-18 20:30 ANKARA: Turkiye’s far-right, anti-refugee Victory (Zafer) Party has launched a fundraising campaign with the pledge that the money raised will be used to pay for one-way bus tickets to send all Syrian refugees home. In a campaign … read more
Wed, 2023-01-18 19:51 DAVOS: Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan told the World Economic Forum on Wednesday that progress is being made on Yemen, but much work still needs to be done. Prince Faisal called for a truce … read more
Wed, 2023-01-18 00:52 RIYADH: Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s permanent observer to the UN, has announced the Security Council will hold an open discussion on Wednesday to review the situation in the Middle East and particularly in Palestine, the Saudi Press Agency … read more