The United Arab Emirates will launch a navigation satellite next year aimed at demonstrating the country's technological capabilities, a top official told Emirates News Agency (WAM).
"The first satellite will be launched in 2021 and the second — a (...)
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan made a whirlwind tour of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco on Tuesday to discuss regional development and build Arab consensus on the Libyan crisis.
Prince Faisal held day-long talks on (...)
Saudi newspapers highlighted in their editorials today a number of issues, at local, regional, and international arenas.
Al-Riyadh newspaper reported in its editorial that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia always seeks to unify the views and stances of (...)
Arab League Secretary General Ahmad Aboul Gheit said on Wednesday that Israel plans to legitimize its occupation of Palestinian lands before the international community with its annexation plan.
Aboul Gheit, in an interview with the Editor in Chief (...)
African countries must carry out more coronavirus testing and make people use masks, a regional disease control body said as cases topped half a million in the continent.
New cases in Africa were up 24 percent over the past week, with data from (...)
His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, has sent a cable of congratulation to President Abdelmadjid Tebboune of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria on (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sent a cable of congratulation to President Abdelmadjid Tebboune of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria on the anniversary of his country's Independence Day.
In his (...)
On World Refugee Day, Google is renewing its commitment to work together with nonprofits and find more long-term solutions. Google is supporting the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) with $550,000 Google.org and YouTube grants to provide refugees with (...)
The 2020 release of Rystad Energy's annual global energy outlook reveals that the COVID-19 downturn will expedite peak oil demand, putting a lid on exploration efforts in remote offshore areas and as a result reducing the world's recoverable oil by (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has virtually signed here the basic charter of the Arab Group for Space Cooperation with the participation of 14 countries.
The charter, which will be signed by 14 Arab countries as follows: (the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, (...)
Algeria further relaxed its coronavirus lockdown on Sunday, easing a curfew, allowing public transport to resume in the cities and reopening some more businesses, the government said.
The government ended the curfew in 19 provinces and shortened it (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has signed here the basic charter of the Arab Group for Space Cooperation with the participation of 14 countries during a virtual meeting on Sunday.
The charter, which will be signed by 14 Arab countries aims to establish (...)
COVID-19 is accelerating in Africa, with more than 200,000 cases and more than 5,600 deaths, the regional office for the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday.
Africa recorded its first case of the new disease in mid-February. While (...)
The Spokesperson of the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic Follow up Committee in Algeria, Jamal Furar, announced here today, that 115 new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have been reported, bringing the total number of infections to 10050.
Furar (...)
The Official Spokesperson for the Coronavirus Follow up Committee in Algeria Jamal Furar announced that 137 cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) have been reported, bringing the total number of infections to 9134.
Furar revealed in a press (...)
The UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency urgently requires $343 million in order to meet additional needs of millions of refugees and other vulnerable people in the Middle East and North Africa related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The funds are needed to save (...)
The Ministry of Health of Algeria reported today 194 new cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of the cases to 8697 cases.
In a statement, Spokesperson of the Coronavirus Follow-up Committee at the Ministry of Health (...)
Spokesperson of the Coronavirus Follow-up Committee at the Ministry of Health of Algeria Jamal Furar said that 193 new cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) were reported today, bringing the total number of the cases to 8306 cases.
In a (...)
Tatawwar: Building Tomorrow's Minds, from HSBC and Potential.com, have announced the winners of the 2019 /2020 program rollout at a live-streamed final awards event. First prize was awarded to Bader Al Sarraf from Bahrain for his ‘Solar Panel CO2 (...)
DUBAI -- The Middle East is the second most popular region for renewable energy investment after North America, according to a recent report from UK-based law firm Ashurst.
The region is home to some of the largest renewable energy bets in the (...)
Riot Games MENA has partnered with Intel and Lenovo to bring a long awaited tournament road map to the Middle East and North Africa. The Intel Arabian Cup (IAC) will be another step in the commitment made by Riot Games MENA to shape the gaming (...)
In partnership with Canadian and Jordanian firms, a laboratory in Algiers has started producing rapid test kits for the novel coronavirus. The kit has a detection time of 15 minutes and a production capacity of 200,000 units per week, unior minister (...)
LIKE many Lebanese families these days, Layal El Hallak's family is having a tough time.
During the nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus, her husband continued to work at a supermarket, but his salary was cut in half as a result of (...)
Algeria reported, during the past 24 hours, 141 new cases of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 4,295 cases.
In a statement, the spokesperson of the Coronavirus Follow-up Committee of Algeria (...)
The Arab League Council at the level of foreign ministers will hold an extraordinary virtual session next Thursday to be chaired by the Sultanate of Oman, at the request of the State of Palestine. The session comes to discuss steps and measures that (...)
