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At least 18 people, students and teachers, on a school trip perished Thursday after their bus was swept away by flooding near the Dead Sea. Army officer Brig. Gen. Farid al-Sharaa said 37 middle school students, seven teachers were surprisingly Read more
Around 14 million people in Yemen, or half the total population of the country, are facing “pre-famine conditions,” said the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday. Mark Lowcock, who is also Emergency Read more
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Jamie McGoldrick, has been describing how ordinary Gazans are scraping by on just four hours of electricity per day due to fuel shortages, putting many in “a terrible situation” as the Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday told the parliamentary group of his party Justice and Development (AK) that the death of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was “planned” and the Saudi kingdom should reveal where his body is and send Read more
Bahrain hosts next week a key summit of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) to discuss the sector’s development for the coming two years, reports say. Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority (BTEA) is host of the event, which will take place Read more
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday said he will reveal on Tuesday “naked truth” of the investigations into the death of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul after Saudi Arabia, following days of denials, admitted Read more
Saudi Energy Minister Monday told Russian news agency TASS that the kingdom will not use oil embargo as it did in 1973 to ward off international pressure and demands of sanctions against it in the case of dissident journalist Jamal Read more
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that he is “deeply troubled” by the reported confirmation of the death of Jamal Khashoggi. A tweet posted by the Saudi Foreign Ministry on Friday states that the missing Saudi journalist, a columnist with the Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday embraced international concerns that the Saudi journalist and critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman was murdered after he entered the Saudi consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul on October 2, saying that Read more
The Gulf countries have renewed their strong support to Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over the Sahara before the fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly. Member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Read more