The United States in recent days authorized the transfer of billions of dollars worth of bombs and fighter jets to Israel even as it publicly expresses concerns about an anticipated military offensive in Rafah, the Washington Post reported on Friday. The new arms packages include more than 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound…
Saudi Health Minister Fahad Al-Jalajel recently met the Ambassador of Mauritius to Saudi Arabia Showkutally Soodhun at his office at the ministry in Riyadh. During the meeting, a number of issues of common interest and ways to enhance health cooperation between the two countries were discussed, Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday. The meeting was…
Port-au-Prince: Intensified gang violence which has gripped Haiti has led to the death of over 1,500 people so far this year, the United Nations said on Thursday, describing the situation as “cataclysmic.” In a new report, the UN human rights office detailed killing, lynching, violence and child abuse. “All these practices are outrageous and must stop…
New Delhi: India is set to enter the league of top five semiconductor producers over the next five years, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday. Speaking at the Times Now Summit 2024, the Minister for Communications and Electronics and IT said this rapid progress in precision technology such as semiconductors is because of Prime Minister…
Japan’s government has dispatched Tsukasa Uemura, the country’s special envoy for Middle East peace, to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE from March 27 to April 3 to assist in peace and aid efforts. The tour is part of Japan’s various efforts “to calm down the situation surrounding Israel and Palestine as soon as…
Spanish military planes air dropped 26 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip on Wednesday and Madrid called on Israel to open land border crossings to prevent a famine, the Foreign Ministry said. The operation, carried out in coordination with Jordan and co-financed by the EU, dropped more than 11,000 food…
Amid escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, Jordan is looking to bolster its defenses against possible incursions by Iran-backed militias on its borders. The new approach follows a series of attacks against US military bases across the Gulf, culminating in a drone assault on a logistics support site of the Jordanian Defense Network near…
GCC Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed Al-Budaiwi met the Ambassador of Hungary to the Kingdom Balazs Selmeci at the headquarters of the council in Riyadh on Wednesday. The officials discussed ways to enhance cooperation between the GCC and Hungary in various fields, and the latest regional and international developments of common interest, the GCC reported. Al-Budaiwi on…
Top officials from the GCC and Canada’s government held talks on Wednesday in Riyadh on ways to boost relations and tackle key regional and international challenges. Jassem Mohamed Albudaiwi, secretary-general of the GCC, met with Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly to discuss the “importance of consolidating the strategic dialogue between the two sides,” the…
Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it launched dozens of rockets at Kiryat Shmona, an Israeli town over the border, early on Wednesday in response to deadly Israeli strikes on the village of Hebbariyeh in southern Lebanon a day earlier.Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have been trading fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in Gaza, in…
