Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Chief Executive
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief executive of the company. He will be replaced by the current chief technical officer, Parag Agrawal,...
UAE Slashes PoL Prices
DUBAI: UAE’s fuel price committee approved on Monday a decrease in petrol and diesel prices for December 2021. Effective starting Wednesday, December 1, 2021, the...
Saudi Arabia Bans Flights To and From 7 African Countries
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia announced the suspension of flights from seven African countries on Friday, due to the emergence of a new variant of the novel...
New Variant Of Coronavirus Named Omicron
LONDON/GENEVA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday designated a new COVID-19 variant detected in South Africa with a large number of mutations as being...
US Blacklists Several Chinese Companies
WASHINGTON – The Biden administration added a dozen Chinese companies to its trade blacklist on Wednesday, citing national security as well as foreign policy concerns....
India To Block Most Cryptocurrencies
India is looking to bar most private cryptocurrencies when it introduces a new bill to regulate virtual currencies in the winter session of Parliament, the...
Man Who Runs Car Into Christmas Parade Indicted
WAUKESHA: The Waukesha Christmas Parade tragedy suspect Darrell Brooks has been charged with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide. The Waukesha Christmas Parade tragedy has...
US To Release 50 Million barrels Of Reserve Oil To Ease Energy Costs
Washington: United States President Joe Biden has ordered 50 million barrels of oil released from the strategic reserve to help bring down energy costs. The...
45 Killed in Bulgaria Bus Fire
SOFIA: At least 45 people, including 12 children, died as a bus carrying mostly North Macedonian tourists crashed in flames on a highway in western...
Five Killed, Over Three Dozen Injured As Vehicles Plows Through Christmas Parade in US
Five people were killed and more than 40 injured after an SUV sped through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, US, knocking down dozens of...
Afghan Taliban Order TV Channels To Stop Featuring Women In Dramas And Movies
Kabul: Afghan Taliban have issued new “religious guidelines” ordering the country’s television channels to stop featuring women in dramas and movies while also instructing women...
UK Outlaws Palestinian Group Hamas
LONDON: Britain’s interior minister Priti Patel on Friday said she had banned the Palestinian group Hamas in a move that brings the UK s stance on...
Climate Envoy Kerry Voices Hope For More US-China Cooperation
SINGAPORE: United States climate envoy John Kerry voiced hope on Friday that Beijing and Washington would work together more closely on the climate emergency after...
Farmers protests: Modi takes U-turn on controversial farm laws
New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a stunning U-turn by announcing that his government will repeal three controversial agricultural reform laws that...
Prince Charles, Camilla Land in Egypt For Royal Tour
Prince Charles and wife Camilla arrived in Egypt on Thursday, marking the start of the second leg of their Middle East tour. The royal couple...
43 Dead in Armed Attack in Nigerian Village
The death toll from attacks by armed bandits on villages across two local government areas in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Sokoto earlier this week has...
Indian Forces Martyr Doctor, Three Traders in IoK
In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the families of martyred civilians by Indian troops in Srinagar continued protest on the second consecutive day, today...
UN Shows Concern Over Increase in Narcotics Production
Afghanistan’s opium production crossed the 6,000-ton mark for the fifth straight year, according to a United Nations report, undermining efforts to stop the war-torn nation...
US Denounces Russia Over Dangerous And Irresponsible Missile Test
WASHINGTON: The United States denounced Russia on Monday for conducting a “dangerous and irresponsible” missile strike that blew up one of its own satellites, creating...
Joe Biden Holds Talks With His Chinese Counterpart on Video Link
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping stressed their responsibility to the rest of the world to avoid conflict as the heads...
At Least Three Killed As Suicide Blasts Rock Ugandan Capital Kampala
Kampala: At least three people were killed and 33 injured in two separate suicide attacks in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on Tuesday morning, according to...
Russia Starts Missile Supplies to India
MOSCOW: Russia has started supplying India with S-400 air defence missile systems, Russian news agencies reported citing Dmitry Shugayev, the head of the Russian military...
Malala Fears Taliban will Keep Girls Out of School
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Sunday said that she was concerned that the Taliban’s block on girls’ education in Afghanistan will not be...
Earthquake Hits UAE, Iran
DUBAI: Earthquake tremors were felt in Dubai and Abu Dhabi on Sunday after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit Iran at 4:07pm local time. Some buildings shook...
Biden To Meet His Chinese Counterpart on November 15
NEW YORK: President Joe Biden’s highly anticipated virtual summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping will take place on Monday, the White House announced. “Following their September 9...
China Administers 8.5 Million COVID-19 Vaccines In Last 24 Hours
BEIJING: In China, 8.5 million people were vaccinated against coronavirus yesterday. The Chinese government’s ongoing campaign against the pandemic is being hailed as crucial. According...
Saudi Arabia To Give Citizenship For The First Time
Riyadh: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has approved a new law that grants citizenship to highly skilled foreigners in the Sharia, legal, medical,...
Three killed In Blast At Afghan Mosque
JALALABAD: At least three people were killed and 15 wounded Friday by a blast at a mosque in Afghanistan’s restive Nangarhar province, a hospital official...
Elon Musk Sells $5 bln in Tesla Shares
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk sold about $5 billion in shares, the billionaire reported in filings on Wednesday, just days after he polled Twitter users about...
US Inflation Hit 31-Year High
WASHINGTON: U.S. consumer prices accelerated in October as Americans paid more for gasoline and food, leading to the biggest annual gain in 31 years, more...
Kuwaiti Actress Lauds Bill Gates, Offers To Marry Him
Kuwait: Kuwaiti actress and singer Shams Bandar Al-Aslami has offered to marry US billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates through a tweet. It is noteworthy...
Aid Resumption to Afghanistan Unlikely: World Bank
KABUL: President of World Bank David Malpass said that it is unlikely for them to resume direct aid to Afghanistan citing challenges in the payment...
At least 26 Children Die In Niger School Fire
Maradi: At least 26 schoolchildren were killed when their classrooms made out of straw and wood were engulfed in a blaze in southern Niger on...
Small Plane Crashes in Brazil
SAO PAULO: Brazilian country singer Marilia Mendonca was killed on Friday along with her manager and aide when the small airplane they were traveling in...
Smog Engulfs Delhi After Diwali
NEW DELHI: Delhi recorded its worst day-after-Diwali air quality since 2016, with the air quality index, or AQI, soaring to 462 on the back of...
US Gives Final Approval To COVID-19 Shots For Kids 5 to 11
WASHINGTON: Seven-year-old Gael Coreas stuck out his left arm fearlessly to receive his first COVID-19 shot at a health clinic in the nation’s capital on...
Cargo Plane Crash-Lands In Somalia
Mogadishu: A cargo plane on Wednesday caught fire after it crash-landed at Dolow town airfield in Southern Somalia, officials said. Dolow airport is dusty airstrip...
IAF Promotes Abhinandan As Group Commander
NEW DELHI: Indian Air Force’s Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman whose MiG-21 Bison was downed by Pakistan Air Force has been promoted as group commander. Wing...
Tesla Recalls Nearly 12,000 Vehicles Over Software Fault
Tesla Inc is recalling nearly 12,000 US vehicles sold since 2017 because a communication error may cause a false forward-collision warning or unexpected activation of...
Use Of Foreign Currencies Banned In Afghanistan
KABUL: The Taliban government announced a ban on the use of foreign currencies, threatening further disruption to an already ailing economy. Since the group took...
Global Leaders Pledge to Safe Forests
GLASGOW: More than 100 global leaders late on Monday pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned...
Blast In Hospital Of Kabul Claims 13 Lives And Injuring 34 Others
KABUL: At least two explosions followed by gunfire hit Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital in Kabul, witnesses and Taliban officials said on Tuesday. The blast resulted...
Suicide Rate Increases in India
NEW DELHI: How did the Covid-19 pandemic affect accidental deaths and suicides in India? The 2020 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report released on October...
Pakistan Condemns Vandalization Of Mosques & Muslim Properties In India
Islamabad: Pakistan has strongly condemned the vandalization of several mosques, houses and shops of Muslims by radical Hindutva mobs in Tripura, India. In a statement,...
India Tests Agni-5 Ballistic Missile
NEW DELHI: India has tested a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead up to 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles), the defence ministry said. The...
Coup in Sudan As Military Detains PM Abdalla Hamdok
KHARTOUM: Soldiers arrested most of the members of Sudan’s cabinet and a large number of pro-government party leaders on Monday (today) in an apparent military...
US Announces Killing of Senior Al Qaeeda Leader in Drone Strike
A senior al-Qaeda leader was killed in a US drone strike in Syria, the Pentagon said Friday. The strike comes two days after a base...