JEDDAH — Once at the center of widespread fan discontent, Karim Benzema has completed one of the most dramatic turnarounds in Saudi football, emerging as the undisputed leader of Al Ittihad's title-winning campaign in the 2024–25 Saudi Pro League (...)
JEDDAH — Laurent Blanc secured the 16th title of his managerial career in style on Thursday night, guiding Al Ittihad to their 14th Saudi Pro League crown — and his first major trophy outside of France.
With the league-clinching win over Al Raed in (...)
JEDDAH — French midfielder N'Golo Kanté played a pivotal role in Al Ittihad's title-winning Saudi Pro League campaign, helping the Jeddah club clinch their 14th league title and their second in three years.
Kanté, a 2018 FIFA World Cup winner with (...)
Australia's most-decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost an appeal against a landmark defamation judgement which found he committed war crimes.
A judge in 2023 ruled that news articles alleging the Victoria Cross recipient had murdered (...)
There are now more North Korean defectors working in the South's public sector than ever before, Seoul has said.
By the end of 2024, 211 North Korean defectors held jobs in the public sector, 17 more than the previous year, the Ministry of (...)
Arab Open University (AOU) concluded its inaugural Startup Competition 2025 at its Riyadh campus, celebrating a range of innovative student-led projects with awards presented by Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal.
The competition highlighted AOU's (...)
The Israeli military intensified operations across Gaza Thursday, killing more than 100 people, and pledged to continue bombings as US President Donald Trump suggested establishing a "freedom zone" in the enclave.
Many of the casualties were in (...)
JEDDAH — The Saudi Ministry of Health has released the Health Awareness Kit for the Hajj season of 1446 AH.
The initiative supports ongoing efforts to enhance public health awareness and prevention during Hajj and aligns with the objectives of the (...)
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was in the wrong for not attending Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul, and pledged to slap fresh sanctions on Moscow.
The talks are beginning on Friday and mark the first time the (...)
COLUMBUS — Saudi student Areej Abdullah Al-Qarni has been selected for the second consecutive year to participate in a high-level panel discussion with global experts in science, technology, and medicine at the Regeneron International Science and (...)
After five days of confusion over Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal for direct talks with Ukraine, the day they were supposed to begin initially brought only more of the same: a seven-hour stakeout on the banks of the Bosphorus, an unruly (...)
The World Health Organization has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an "immediate" vaccination campaign.
Samples of the highly infectious virus were found in two healthy children during a routine screening in Lae, a (...)
The Israeli government has on its table a proposal on creating a new entity from scratch in Gaza after it defeats Hamas, a document seen by Euronews dated December 2023 reveals.
The proposal, in the form of a 32-page academic paper titled "Gaza (...)
Ukraine and Russia began their meeting in Istanbul on Friday, the first attempt at a ceasefire negotiation in a format that also includes representatives of the US and Turkey.
The head of Ukraine's delegation Rustem Umerov said the Kyiv team already (...)
Nearly 100 people, including children, have been killed in a large-scale Israeli ground, air and sea attack launched early Friday in north Gaza, the Hamas-run civil defense and residents have said.
The civil defense said at least nine homes and (...)
There's a vast empty space in the middle of the factory floor in Foshan in southern China where workers should be welding high-end air fryers for the US market.
Derek Wang says his American customers were wowed by his air fryer models — which are (...)
"My preference will always be for peace and partnership," US President Donald Trump affirmed in Riyadh during the first foreign visit of his second term in office.
The US president was addressing a distinguished audience of the US-Saudi Investment (...)
Riyadh — The medical and surgical team of the Saudi Conjoined Twins Program is successful in separating Eritrean conjoined twins Asma and Someya, who were joined at the head, at King Abdullah Specialist Children's Hospital in Riyadh on Wednesday. (...)
BEIJING — The Saudi-Chinese Business Forum wrapped up in Beijing on Wednesday with clinching 57 agreements and memoranda of understanding (MoUs) valued at over SR14 billion between Saudi and Chinese entities. The forum was attended by Minister of (...)
Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri has been freed from a Texas detention center after he was arrested as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on activists across college campuses.
A federal judge ordered the release of Suri, (...)
At least 21 people have been killed in a road accident in central Mexico, according to a local official.
The three-vehicle crash happened on the highway between Cuacnopalan and Oaxaca in Puebla state on Wednesday morning, said Samuel Aguilar Pala, a (...)
A luxury superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily, killing the tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch along with six others, was knocked over by "extreme wind" and could not recover, according to an interim report into the disaster.
The UK's Marine (...)
Israel is preparing a series of sites in Gaza that could be used as distribution centers for humanitarian aid in a controversial new plan, satellite images show.
The Israeli government suspended food and medicine deliveries into Gaza in (...)