Australia is about to see its largest-ever wave of offshore development wells that reach the end of their producing life and need to be for decommissioned. This task is both adding headaches for producers and creating a multibillion-dollar (...)
G7 leaders have backed a vast global infrastructure plan for developing and emerging countries to rival the Chinese "Belt and Road" project. The move came at the initiative of President Joe Biden, the White House announced.
It comes on the second (...)
An experiment to infect mosquitoes with bacteria that stop them from transmitting viruses appears to have helped reduce the spread of the deadly dengue virus in Indonesia, researchers reported on Wednesday.
The modified mosquitoes thrived for three (...)
US President Joe Biden embarks on his first overseas trip on Wednesday where he will meet European partners and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
"In this moment of global uncertainty, as the world still grapples with a once-in-a-century (...)
Google will pay a 220 million euros (nearly $270 million) fine and make changes to its huge online advertising business as part of an antitrust settlement with French regulators.
The penalty comes as the tech giant faces multiple US suits over (...)
The United States Navy unveiled the only ship in its fleet to be named after a foreign capital during a ceremony in Mobile, Alabama, on Saturday.
The USS Canberra — named for Australia's seat of power — is a brand new littoral combat ship, one of (...)
LONDON — Research institutes, studies centers and think tanks are increasingly playing strategic roles in modern societies, contributing to setting their national policies and rationalizing their decision-making processes. Through their specialized (...)
JEDDAH — Fully vaccinated travelers from Saudi Arabia will no longer have to go into quarantine upon their arrival in France, according to new rules unveiled on Friday by the French government.
Welcoming travelers from Saudi Arabia to his country, (...)
The United States has joined calls for a more in-depth, transparent inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, after an international probe in China earlier this year yielded little in the way of firm conclusions.
Speaking at the World (...)
A brand new study by Dojo has revealed which cities in the world are the most ambitious when it comes to starting their own business! Many of us aspire for success, but does where we live have anything to do with our business ambitions?
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Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, received today a telephone call from Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, WAM reported.
During the meeting, they discussed (...)
Austria has become the latest country to ban Hezbollah in its entirety, rather than just its military wing.
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said: "This is a very clear signal. This step reflects reality." "The group itself makes no (...)
Australia received its first repatriation flight from India since its controversial ban on travel from the Covid-hit country came into force, with 80 Australians landing in Darwin on Saturday and immediately being taken to quarantine facilities.
A (...)
SITA on May 10 celebrated the 25th anniversary of its border management business, a journey that started in 1996 in readiness for the 2000 Olympics Games in Sydney. A quarter of a century on, SITA's border solutions are used by over 60 governments (...)
A young Italian woman is being monitored in hospital after accidentally receiving six doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine.
Italian media said a 23-year-old woman was placed under observation in Massa, central Tuscany, after the (...)
A sure sign of spring in northern Europe is the arrival of the Arctic tern bird, but ahead of the UN's World Migratory Bird Day experts fear the warming of the oceans in its nesting grounds in the northern Atlantic is threatening its very (...)
Australia will allow its citizens and permanent residents to return from India as of May 15, ending a controversial entry ban on anyone who has been in India over the past 14 days.
The ban is being enforced with a possible five-year jail term, a (...)
The Indian delegation in Britain for the meeting of the Group of Seven (G7) foreign and development ministers here is self-isolating as two members of the delegation tested positive for COVID-19, Sky News reported on Wednesday.
The meeting that runs (...)
Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Monday for the world's richest nations to underwrite COVID-19 vaccination in poorer countries, highlighting the need to raise some $60 billion over the next two years.
Speaking during the (...)
Parts of the online economy have boomed since COVID-19 began, while some pre-pandemic big-hitters have seen a reversal of their fortunes in the last year, amid widespread movement restrictions, UN economists have found.
According to UN trade and (...)
The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance, represented by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' program for "Iftar" (breaking fast) in cooperation with the Saudi embassy in Australia, has continued distributing Ramadan food baskets in (...)
India set another global record in new coronavirus cases on Thursday, with an additional 379,257 people infected as the country's medical system struggles to cope with the massive surge in infections.
The new cases bring the total number of COVID-18 (...)
The Kingdoms Institute, the recently unveiled center for archaeological research and conservation studies in AlUla, on Thursday announced a significant archaeological discovery in northwest Saudi Arabia: the monumental, complex structures called (...)
أصبح عملاق شبكات التواصل الاجتماعي "فيسبوك" يسمح للمعلنين باستهداف الأطفال عبر حملات يفترض أن تخصص في الأصل للكبار بشكل حصري.
ووفقا لصحيفة "غارديان" البريطانية، بات بوسع الشركات توجيه إعلانات لمستخدمي "فيسبوك"
مما تقل أعمارهم عن 13 عاما، تتحدث عن (...)
As the debate intensifies as to whether the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament should continue amid a deadly COVID-19 second wave, Australian international David Warner was adhering to strict safety protocols as he took an internal (...)
