Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Middle East department store chain dumps Trump products

U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump's anti-Muslim comments cost him business in the Middle East on Wednesday, with a major chain of department stores halting...

Ten killed in air strike on Sanaa as fighting starts in central Yemen

Ten people were killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a suburb in the capital Sanaa on Monday, medical sources and residents said. The strike...

Syrian FM visits India before peace talks

Syria's foreign minister arrived in New Delhi Monday for talks with his Indian counterpart, trying to build international support for President Bashar al-Assad's government...

WHO warns of a Virus second-wave

A top world health official Monday warned that countries are essentially driving blind in reopening their economies without setting up strong contact tracing to...

Saudi King Salman condemns "disgraceful" Orlando shooting

Saudi Arabia's King Salman condemned the deadly gun attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida and urged measures to combat terrorism, state news...

Syria ceasefire called upon to tackle virus threat

The government in Damascus has so far only reported one case of COVID-19 but fears are high that the virus could spread rapidly among...

Saudi intercepts and destroys ballistic missile from Yemen

Saudi Arabia has intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired from Yemen and a Saudi-led military coalition said in a statement late on Monday...

WHO says misdiagnosis in Saudi caused MERS outbreak

The wrong diagnosis of a woman suffering from the MERS coronavirus led to more than 49 other patients and medical staff being exposed to...

Gunmen kill 16, including 4 nuns, in Yemen retirement home

Unidentified gunmen stormed a retirement home run by Catholic nuns in the southern city of Aden on Friday shooting 16 people to death, including...

Houthi rebels blow up bridges to hamper advance by Yemen loyalists

Iran-backed rebels in Yemen have blown up several bridges in the mountainous southwestern Taez province to hamper the advance of pro-government forces, military sources...

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