HANOI — The Saudi national taekwondo team made history on Thursday by securing their first-ever gold medals at the 26th Asian Championships held in the Tien Son Sports Palace in Da Nang, Vietnam.
Donia Abutaleb clinched the first gold in the women's (...)
The Family Affairs Council led the Kingdom's delegation at the second meeting of the Women's Empowerment Working Group within the framework of the G20 in Brazil. The meeting, held on May 13-14, is themed "Building a Fair and Sustainable Planet."
Dr. (...)
One of Japan's most well-known bread brands is recalling thousands of packets and offering refunds after the remains of a rat was found in its products.
Around 104,000 packs of sliced white bread made by the Pasco Shikishima Corporation have been (...)
TOKYO — Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is scheduled to make an official visit to Japan from May 20 to 23, Tokyo announced on Friday.
"This visit marks his first trip to Japan in his capacity as both Crown Prince and Prime Minister, following (...)
Australia has announced it will ramp up its extraction and use of gas until "2050 and beyond", despite global calls to phase out fossil fuels.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's government says the move is needed to shore up domestic energy supply (...)
Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) (NYSE: PM) announced its 2024 first-quarter results.
"The strength of our first-quarter results with excellent top-line growth and significant margin expansion gives us the confidence to raise our 2024 (...)
Fuelled by climate change, the world's oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year, a BBC analysis finds.
Nearly 50 days have smashed existing highs for the time of year by the largest margin in the satellite (...)
Australia has accused a Chinese fighter jet of firing flares into the path of a naval helicopter last weekend over international waters of the Yellow Sea, an action that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese blasted as "completely unacceptable."
The (...)
He could probably have walked it blindfolded.
For the fifth time Vladimir Putin took the long walk through the Grand Kremlin Palace to the St Andrew's Throne Hall. There he took the oath of office and was sworn in as Russia's president for a new (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi car market has solidified its position as a leading automotive market, making it one of the top 20 car markets globally.
The market represents more than half of all car sales in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
The (...)
The labeling of Japan as "xenophobic" by Joe Biden was "unfortunate" and "not based on an accurate" understanding of the country, Japan's US embassy says.
The US president said during a campaign fundraising event earlier this week that Japan, India, (...)
China launched an uncrewed lunar mission Friday that aims to bring back samples from the far side of the moon for the first time, in a potentially major step forward for the country's ambitious space program.
The Chang'e-6 probe – China's most (...)
Myanmar's military government will no longer allow conscription-age men to travel out of the country for work, weeks after an enlistment order prompted many to try and flee.
On Thursday, authorities said they would suspend all applications from men (...)
The Australian government has talked up its close ties with Delhi despite reports that two Indian spies were expelled from the country in 2020.
In 2021, Australia's intelligence chief said that foreign agents had been operating locally in the (...)
Automechanika Riyadh, the highly anticipated trade show for the Saudi Arabian automotive market, has been officially inaugurated by H.H. Prince Bader bin Fahad bin Abdullah Al Saud and Mr. Ammar Altaf, Assistant Deputy Minister, Ministry of (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Heritage Commission has forged a new partnership with Kanazawa University in Japan to conduct archaeological surveys at prehistoric sites in Al-Jouf and Tabuk regions.
Dr. Jasser Al-Harbash, CEO of the Heritage Commission, was (...)
نشرت شركة (Astroscale Japan) اليابانية الخاصة أول صورة في العالم لحطام فضائي، التقطت بالقرب منه بواسطة قمر صناعي خاص يتحكم به عن بعد، وتظهر في الصورة التي التقطها القمر الصناعي الخاص من مسافة بضع مئات من الأمتار مرحلة لصاروخ، دون الإشارة إلى نوعه (...)
, the groundbreaking development project in northwest Saudi Arabia, has hosted representatives from 52 global, regional, and local financial institutions.
This significant gathering underscored the extensive and ongoing construction across its (...)
A satellite operated by Japanese company Astroscale has chased down a 15-year-old piece of space junk and taken an up-close image of it.
The object is a discarded rocket segment that's about 11m by 4m (36ft by 15ft), with a mass of three (...)
Russia on Wednesday vetoed a United Nations resolution that proposed a ban on the use of nuclear weapons in outer space amid US intelligence-backed concerns that Moscow is trying to develop a nuclear device capable of destroying satellites.
Russian (...)
A UN report into the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA has concluded it must do more to improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency.
But the independent review also said that Israel had failed to back up a claim that many of the agency's (...)
China has accused the United States of "stoking military confrontation" with the recent deployment of a powerful missile launcher capable of firing weapons with a range of up to 1,600 kilometers to exercises in the Philippines.
The presence of the (...)
Global oil and gold prices jumped and shares fell after US officials said an Israeli missile had struck Iran.
After initial sharp moves in Asia on Friday, the market reaction eased with Brent crude oil trading around 1.7% higher, to sit above $88 a (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Health has announced that the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine is now available in Saudi Arabia to everyone aged 60 and above.
Dr. Abdullah Asiri, Assistant Deputy Minister for Preventive Health and Infectious (...)
On 19 April, Indians will begin choosing a new parliament for the next five years, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a third consecutive term. Opinion polls put his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies ahead. They are up against the (...)