Friday, January 23, 2026

Oil price slump should not stop investments: Al-Naimi

Saudi Arabia has called for sustained investment in new output capacity despite the slump in world prices. Ali Al-Naimi, minister for petroleum and mineral resources,...

Editorial: King Salman’s wise message to the G-20

The G-20 meetings bring together, every year, the world’s most powerful economies, of which the Kingdom is one. But this week, in the Turkish...

Trump says he would 'absolutely' implement Muslim database

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has voiced support for creating a mandatory database to track Muslims in the United States — the latest in...

Yemen attacks leave 15 soldiers dead in Hadramawt

At least 15 Yemeni soldiers were killed and dozens others injured on Friday, including civilians, when an army barracks was targeted at the western...

Gunmen attack checkpoint, inflict casualties in Yemeni city

Masked gunmen staged a deadly attack on Friday at a checkpoint in a historic Yemeni city, setting of a car bomb and exchanging gunfire...

Russian strikes in Syria kill more than 403 civilians

More than 1,300 people, around two-thirds of them combatants, have been killed in Russian air strikes in Syria since Moscow's aerial campaign began on...

Mali attack weighing on airline stocks

Shares in easyJet and Ryanair fell 1 to 3 percent on Friday, underperforming the European travel and leisure index, with traders citing an attack...

10 killed in Baghdad Shiite mosque suicide blast

Iraqi security officials say a suicide blast and a roadside bomb have targeted a Shite mosque in a southern Baghdad neighborhood, killing 10 people. Police...

Egypt's Tourism Minister hopes Egypt is still a key player in Arab tourism

Egyptian Tourism Minister Hisham Zazou stressed the importance of Arab tourism in general with a focus on Egypt, encouraging Arabs to "return to Egyptian...

Lebanon security forces make arrests and seize explosives after Beirut bombs

Lebanese security forces carried out a series of arrests overnight, security sources said on Friday, as part of a crackdown launched after twin suicide...

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