Qatari poet serving 15-year jail term pardoned
A Qatari poet, Rashid al-Ajami, has been pardoned and released after serving more than three years of a 15-year prison sentence for insulting the...
Saudi Arabia's new oil policy works in reclaiming market share
Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is slowly regaining market share following its 2014 decision to no longer support prices, data shows, but has a...
Iran’s Khamenei warns economy will worsen if virus spreads
Tehran (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader warned on Saturday that the country's economic problems would worsen if the novel coronavirus spreads unchecked, saying the...
8 Saudi Arabian civilians injured from Yemen cross-border shelling
Eight civilians including two children were wounded in Saudi Arabia from Yemeni cross-border shelling, the civil defence agency said on Wednesday.
The attack hit two...
Meet Saudi Arabia's first women election candidates
Activists, professionals and housewives among more than 1,000 to be nominated in the country's first council elections open to women
Their election leaflets cannot contain...
Russia and Turkey discuss restoring economic ties
Russia and Turkey will gradually unfreeze relations in trade and economy which soured after Turkey downed a Russian bomber near the Syrian border last...
Famine threatens half of Yemen
Nearly half of Yemen's 22 provinces on the verge of famine as result of the war there and more than 13 million people need...
Saudi Arabia hosted half a million Syrians since 2011
Amnesty International highlighted that the six Gulf states - Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain - have not offered any...
Dengue cases drop in Jeddah
Cases of dengue fever in Jeddah recently dropped with the city registering between three to five suspected cases, a local newspaper reported.
The drop in...
Sterling plunges to 31-year low, biggest ever fall, as UK votes Brexit
British markets plunged on Friday, with sterling hitting a 31-year low in its biggest fall on record and UK stock futures pointing to a...
