Global banking majors expected prices to stay in the mid-$80s The price of crude oil is not expected to reach $100 a barrel this year due to factors such as a lower possibility of Opec+ implementing deeper supply cuts and China’s record-high crude oil stocks, oil market pundits say. While Brent crude, which serves as…
WARSAW, Poland: Over 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved close to the border with Poland, the Polish prime minister said Saturday.Mateusz Morawiecki said at a news conference that the mercenaries had moved close to the Suwalki Gap, a strategic stretch of Polish territory situated between Belarus and Kaliningrad, a…
Jimmy Anderson wants’s his batters to post a challenging second innings total to make it hard for the visitors to chase down Australia led England by 12 runs at the end of a tense and fluctuating second day to leave the final Ashes Test at The Oval on a knife-edge on Friday. Steve Smith’s patient…
BRISBANE, Australia: Australia paused a major military exercise with the United States on Saturday, after a defense helicopter taking part in the drills crashed into the Pacific leaving four aircrew missing.Australia’s Defense Minister Richard Marles said the MRH-90 Taipan went down late Friday night in sub-tropical waters near Hamilton Island, Queensland.It had been taking part…
TOKYO: Saudi team Al-Nassr drew 1-1 with Inter Milan in a pre-season friendly on Thursday at Yanmar Stadium in Osaka, with Ronaldo once again a huge attraction for the Japanese fans. The Portuguese international played the first half, and delighted the crowd with his tricks, skills and powerful shooting. Al-Nassr coach Luis Castro said that…
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken a hit in the polls over a judicial law his hard-right coalition has championed, deepening a crisis that has shaken Israelis, seeped into the military, bruised the economy and dismayed Washington.Surveys published late on Tuesday by two main Israeli news broadcasters showed that if an election was held…
RIYADH: The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Prophet’s Mosque has provided services to more than 52,000 visitors who came to Madinah after the Hajj season.The General Presidency said that more than 7.5 million worshipers witnessed the prayer in the Prophet’s Mosque during the period from July 16 to July 23, accompanied by all…
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Council of Ministers held its weekly session, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, on Tuesday, renewing the Kingdom’s condemnation of attacks on Islamic sanctities in Sweden and Denmark. The Cabinet reiterated Saudi Arabia’s strong condemnation of the burnings of copies of the Qur’an in Sweden and Denmark, describing them as a…
LONDON: High-profile British radical preacher Anjem Choudary appeared in a London court on Monday, charged with leading a terrorist organization.Choudary, 56, was charged Sunday with three counts under the Terrorism Act: directing a terrorist organization, membership in a banned organization and addressing meetings to encourage support for the organization between June 2022 and this month.Prosecutors…
DUBAI: Iraq condemned the burning of a copy of the Qur’an in front of its embassy in Denmark on Monday and said Danish staff at the embassy in Baghdad had left Iraq after protests there.Demonstrations have raged across Iran and Iraq after Denmark and Sweden allowed the burning of the Qur’an under rules protecting free…
