Dubai investigates cause of New Year's Eve hotel inferno
Smoke was still rising from a 63-storey luxury hotel in Dubai Friday as authorities worked to determine the cause of a spectacular fire that...
Oil blues see 7% Tadawul drop
JEDDAH: The Saudi stock market plunged nearly 7 percent on Sunday in relentless selling sparked by falling oil prices and a decision by Fitch...
Iraqi protesters call for downfall of politicians
Thousands of Iraqis angry about poor services protested in Baghdad and the southern oil hub of Basra on Friday, calling for the downfall of...
Turkey warns Russia over space violation: NATO concerned
Turkey's prime minister says Russia has described its warplane's violation of Turkey's airspace as a "mistake" while calling the country's entry into the conflict...
COVID-19 vaccine might soon come to light
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a U.N. Economic and Social Council video briefing the original thinking two months ago was that it may...
U.S. split deepens over Putin's intentions in Syria civil war
Russia's latest military moves in Syria have sharpened divisions within the U.S. administration over whether Russian President Vladimir Putin genuinely backs a U.N.-led initiative to...
Lebanon seeks to fix relationship with Saudi Arabia
The Lebanese government said on Monday it was necessary to fix ties with Saudi Arabia after Riyadh last week suspended a $3 billion aid...
Pakistani woman in California shooting attended troubled university
Security officials have been closely monitoring a university in east Pakistan attended by Tashfeen Malik, the woman involved in last's week's mass shooting in...
Suicide bombers attack peacekeepers' main base in Somali capital
Two suicide attackers set off bombs outside the African Union's main peacekeeping base in Somalia's capital Mogadishu near the airport on Tuesday, police said.
The...
Syrian opposition and rebels not invited to Vienna talks with Saudi
Neither Syria's main political opposition body nor representatives of the armed opposition have been invited to international talks on the country's war, an opposition...
