Hurricane Beryl, now a potentially catastrophic Category 5 storm, has set its sights on Jamaica's shoreline after leaving at least one person dead and inflicting ruin across entire islands in the Caribbean on Monday.
Beryl is marching away from the (...)
Hurricane Beryl, a powerful Category 3 storm, is expected to slam into the Caribbean on Monday, endangering several island communities with life-threatening storm surge, violent winds and flash flooding.
The hurricane's core is most at risk of (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia announced on Wednesday that it has included three new countries to the list of countries that are eligible to obtain electronic visit visas. The new additions are the Commonwealth Caribbean countries of the Bahamas, Barbados, (...)
The Cabinet, chaired by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman in Jeddah Tuesday, gave its blessing to the launch of the Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC's) Vision for Regional Security, which aims to maintain stability in the region, (...)
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia will bear the government fees of displaced citizens from neighboring countries, who are permitted to stay and rectify their status in the Kingdom, for a period of four years. This landmark decision was taken by the weekly (...)
Two Filipino seafarers are among the dead after a Houthi ballistic missile struck a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden, marking the first fatal attack by the Iran-backed militant group in its ongoing assaults in the Red Sea.
At least three crew (...)
Some crew are abandoning a Barbados-flagged ship and others are reported missing after it was damaged in an apparent attack off Yemen, maritime security firm Ambrey said.
A US official told Reuters smoke was seen coming off the True Confidence and a (...)
The Australian government has indicated that it has put on hold a proposal to hold a vote on removing King Charles III as its head of state.
It is a longstanding policy of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to hold a referendum on becoming a (...)
It sounded like the perfect festive break: a cruise around the sunny Caribbean, before flying back to the cold and wet UK just in time for Christmas.
But the idyllic vacation turned into something of a nightmare for the 225 British passengers on P&O (...)
The UK is preparing to send a warship to Guyana in a show of diplomatic and military support for the former British colony, the BBC has learned.
It comes after neighboring Venezuela renewed its claim for a disputed part of Guyanese territory that is (...)
RIYADH — The first summit between Saudi Arabia and 15 countries, representing the CARICOM Organization, will be held on Thursday, Nov.16, in Riyadh. Heads of state, presidents and senior officials of CARICOM countries started arriving on Wednesday (...)
Venezuela's opposition is holding a primary to choose a candidate for the 2024 presidential election.
Opposition parties have organized the poll without any help from the National Electoral Council, which is headed by a close ally of President (...)
"Are we going to be too late for the SDGs?" Mia Mottley asked world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Friday, challenging them to "summon the determination to make the fundamental governance changes" that will turn the vision of sustainable (...)
Caribbean countries have been equipped to better prepare for hurricanes and other hazards following the conclusion of a three-and-a-half year project to strengthen weather, water and climate services, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) (...)
The Cabinet, chaired by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman on Tuesday in Jeddah, established the "International Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Ethics", to be based in Riyadh, with legal personality and financial and (...)
PARIS — Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman will address world leaders at the Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact on Thursday. More than 100 heads of state and government, and 300 high ranking officials representing (...)
A new way of sucking carbon dioxide from the air and storing it in the sea has been outlined by scientists.
The authors say that this novel approach captures CO2 from the atmosphere up to three times more efficiently than current methods.
The (...)
RIYADH —Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Ivanov announced on Sunday that Moscow is preparing intergovernmental agreements on visa-free travel with 11 countries, including Saudi Arabia.
"We are preparing draft intergovernmental agreements on (...)
Minister of Transportation and Logistics Services, Eng. Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser, who is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA), signed here today a memorandum of understanding to set up the (...)
Minister of Transportation and Logistics Services Eng. Saleh Bin Nasser Al-Jasser, who is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA), and Barbados's Minister of Tourism and Transport Ian Gooding-Edghill (...)
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced on Tuesday, the 2022 Champions of the Earth for their transformative action to prevent, halt or reverse ecosystem degradation.
A conservationist, a sustainable waste management enterprise, an economist, (...)
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has warned: "We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator." But what does that mean? Here's where things stand in terms of the numnbers.
Guterres has warned world (...)
The organizing committee of the 22nd edition of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) Global Summit revealed the outlines, the most important features, and the elite attendees of the upcoming global event, which will be hosted in Riyadh from Nov (...)
The organizing committee of the twenty-second edition of the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) Global Summit revealed the outlines, the most important features, and the elite attendees of the upcoming global event, which will be hosted in Riyadh (...)
Mia Amor Mottley, the prime minister of Barbados, urged world leaders to "use the power of the pen" and impose natural disaster and pandemic clauses in developing countries' debt, as well as remove the current barriers to accessing financial (...)
