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Riyadh-based low budget airline Flynas has announced it will soon start recruiting Saudi women as co-pilots on flights in a move to enable the kingdom’s women “to have a greater role in supporting the kingdom’s economy.” Flynas CEO Bandar Almohanna Read more
United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffith told the Security Council on Tuesday that he never expected an easy mission when he convened Intra-Yemeni Consultations in Geneva last week, for which the Houthis delegation failed to show up. “The Read more
Qatar’s top army commander attended Monday the Gulf Cooperation Council Supreme Military Committee (GCC-SMC) held in Kuwait, amid ongoing diplomatic crisis opposing the gas-rich country to Saudi Arabia and its allies namely the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt. Read more
A Saudi Princess has been victim of heist at Ritz hotel in Paris after she lost her jewels worth $935,000 in her hotel suite. The royal, who has not been named, told the prosecutor that the robbery took place Friday. Read more
Emaar Properties PJSC has debunked Tuesday reports that it will offer future buyers of projects 10-year visa as part of incentives to attract foreign investments. “The issuance of visas falls under the purview of the concerned authorities and Emaar does Read more
Some 3,500 Emiratis will be employed over the coming 100 days in three sectors as government and local partners agreed to recruit citizens in the framework of the Gulf country’s Emiratization policy. The 3,500 jobs will be created in the Read more
Tens of hundreds of Iraqis in the southern city of Basra Friday stormed and set ablaze the Iranian consulate amid public anger against government over corruption and poor public services. Basra, with a 2 million-strong population, has been witnessing, since Read more
A US pilot died Thursday after a helicopter belonging to the Saudi aviation brigade of the National Guard crashed outside capital, Riyadh, near an airfield. The pilot has been identified as Paul Reedy. Reedy, according to the national guard, died Read more
Qatar’s new law partially scrapping the ‘exit permit’ that prevented migrant workers from leaving the country without their employer’s permission is an important first step towards dismantling its exploitative sponsorship system, Amnesty International said. Law No. 13 of 2018, issued Read more
The Emir of Kuwait Wednesday told US President that efforts are underway for an early end of the over one-year old diplomatic crisis dividing US allies, Kuwait state-run news agency KANU reports. Discussions between Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Read more