Thu, 2022-11-24 21:26 CAIRO: Egyptians delivering incorrect weather forecasts through media channels or providing weather information without a license could face fines of up to 5 million Egyptian pounds ($205,000) under a new draft law. The law approved by the … read more
Thu, 2022-11-24 21:24 DOHA: Qatar is to provide $2.6 million to aid almost 100,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon with food, medicine, and shelter. The Qatar Fund for Development agreed to the disbursement through the UN Refugee Agency, the … read more
Wed, 2022-11-23 23:03 PARIS: The Kurds are a non-Arab ethnic group of between 25 and 35 million people whose dreams of an independent homeland were brutally quashed throughout the 20th century. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed Kurdish militants for … read more
Wed, 2022-11-23 22:55 CHIBAYISH, Iraq: Abbas Hashem fixed his worried gaze on the horizon — the day was almost gone and still, there was no sign of the last of his water buffaloes. He knows that when his animals don’t come … read more
ID: 1669229363322268600 Wed, 2022-11-23 21:48 LONDON: On Sept. 13, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, was arrested in Tehran for violating the Islamic republic’s strict dress code for women. In the custody of the Gasht-e Ershad — the “Guidance Patrol,” … read more