Group: Egypt arrests 2 journalists, one sick with COVID-19
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian security forces have arrested two journalists, including one sick with COVID-19, the latest step in a sweeping crackdown on news...
Turkish soap operas latest casualty of Mideast conflicts
A major Middle Eastern satellite network now believed to be majority-owned by Saudi Arabia has stopped airing Turkish soap operas, the latest entertainment casualty...
“Saudi women need not wear abaya robes” – senior cleric
Saudi women should not have to wear the loose-fitting abaya robe to shroud their bodies in public, a senior cleric said, in the latest...
Same social distancing standards during Ramadan as at Easter: Trump
The US president Donald Trump said on Saturday that he hopes US Muslims will adhere to the same social distancing during Ramadan as Christians...
Oil options lurch closer to $20 Goldman doomsday forecast
When U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs said last year that oil could fall as low as $20 per barrel, it assigned a fairly low...
UK foreign minister discusses climate change in Gulf
Speaking from a Gulf nation whose skyscrapers rose on oil wealth, Britain's foreign secretary called Thursday on the rest of the wealthy Arab world...
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...
Tunisia use ‘keeper ruse to break Ramadan fast
Players for World Cup-bound Tunisia broke their Ramadan fast during two warm-up matches after the goalkeeper feigned injury, coach Nabil Maaloul told AFP Tuesday.
Maaloul...
Egypt struggles to get subsidised food to poor amid dollar crisis
"Any rice?" says the woman, leaning into a shop in Cairo and brandishing a green smartcard that carries her family's food credits. The shopkeeper...
Saudi Patriot 'intercepts' Scud fired from Sanaa, Yemen
A Patriot missile shot down a Scud fired from the Yemeni capital towards southern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the Saudi-led coalition told AFP, the...
