RIYADH — Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman received on Wednesday a phone call from French President Emmanuel Macron. Their talks focused mainly on Gaza situation and the Red Sea security.
During the phone conversation, they (...)
A Marine rapid response force is expected to leave the eastern Mediterranean Sea in the coming weeks and return to the United States, according to two defense officials, in a significant reduction of US forces in the region.
The USS Bataan (...)
UN relief agencies operating in war-torn Gaza voiced deep frustration on Tuesday over continuing aid access restrictions placed on them by the Israeli military, after ambulances carrying patients away from a stricken hospital at the weekend were (...)
The crew of a Belize-flagged, British-registered cargo vessel have abandoned ship off Yemen after it was hit by missiles fired by the Houthi movement.
The Rubymar was in the Gulf of Aden and nearing the Bab al-Mandab Strait when it was struck, (...)
RIYADH — Swiss contestant Stephanie Weil claimed a $1 million prize, equivalent to SR3.75 million, in the final competition of the Riyadh Season Treasure Hunt, held at Boulevard City.
The contest saw thousands of participants from around the globe (...)
A model of the Eiffel Tower has been officially deemed the world's tallest matchstick building a day after being ruled out by Guinness World Records (GWR).
The 7.19m (23ft) tower had been disqualified on Wednesday for being made out of the wrong (...)
The deadly Hamas attacks of October 7 united a shocked, grieving Israel behind its leaders, burying at a stroke the divisions that had riven the country for years. Four months into the war and with hopes for a new deal to return Israeli hostages (...)
It is a lonely drive to Israel's most northern town, Metula, along a spur of land that is surrounded on three sides by Lebanon. That means it is also surrounded on three sides by Lebanon's most powerful armed group, Hezbollah.
The soldiers at the (...)
SHARJAH — Saudi Arabia achieved a remarkable success in the fourth West Asia Para Games, held in Sharjah by securing 55 medals.
The haul included 17 gold, 23 silver, and 15 bronze medals, bolstering the nation's standing to third place in the (...)
A US warship's destruction of an incoming Houthi missile in the Red Sea this week marks the first use in this conflict of an advanced weapons system dubbed the Navy's "last line of defense."
The Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CWIS) was deployed by (...)
In Gaza, a strip of land fast becoming a wasteland, few international aid bodies can still operate. The United Nations is one of them.
Its Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or UNRWA, was founded in 1949, working in Gaza, the West Bank, (...)
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has urged the countries that halted funding to reconsider their "shocking" decision.
Over two million people in the Gaza Strip depend on it "for their sheer survival," Philippe Lazzarini (...)
The UK, Australia, Italy and Canada have become the latest countries to pause funding for the UN agency for Palestinians, UNRWA.
This comes after the agency announced the sacking of several of its staff over allegations of involvement in the Oct. 7 (...)
Israel has proposed that Hamas senior leaders could leave Gaza as part of a broader ceasefire agreement, two officials familiar with the ongoing international discussions told CNN.
The extraordinary proposal, which has not been previously reported, (...)
The Palestinian death toll in Gaza from over three months of war between Israel and the territory's Hamas rulers has soared past 25,000, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Sunday.
At least 178 bodies were brought to Gaza's hospitals in 24 hours along (...)
Puck announced on Monday the launch of 'Selfless Shelves', an initiative aiming to empower five entrepreneurial women from five distinct villages in Lebanon, by granting them shelf space in Carrefour stores to sell their handcrafted and locally (...)
At the 9th Falcon Festival in Tarif, Northern Border Region, visitors relive the dawn of Saudi's oil industry and the settlement of nomads, showcasing the TABLINE pipeline's role in connecting the Kingdom's oil to Lebanon, Europe, and the USA, (...)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres repeated his call for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and the unconditional release of all hostages, in an address to the latest summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), which concluded in Kampala, Uganda, on (...)
Pakistan has expressed its willingness to work with Iran on "all issues" in a call between their foreign ministers.
It comes after both countries exchanged drone and missile strikes on militant bases on each other's territory.
Iran said Thursday's (...)
Medicines for Israeli hostages and Palestinians have entered Gaza, Qatar said Wednesday, after the Gulf nation brokered a deal between Israel and Hamas to provide vital medication to the war-torn enclave.
The agreement mediated by Qatar Tuesday will (...)
Pakistan has launched retaliatory missile strikes into Iran, reportedly killing seven people, after Iran carried out strikes in Pakistan late on Tuesday.
Pakistan said its strikes had hit "terrorist hideouts" in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan (...)
Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Monday launched ballistic missiles at what it said was a spy base for Israel's intelligence agency Mossad in northern Iraq, and at "anti-Iran terror groups" in Syria, in the latest escalation of hostilities that (...)
The White House said "it's the right time" for Israel to scale back its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli leaders again vowed to press ahead with their operation against the territory's ruling Hamas militant group.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has emphasized the imperative of establishing "basic conditions" to facilitate safe and full-scale aid delivery to civilians in Gaza while stressing that only a ceasefire will prevent the crisis from (...)
Australian police have charged two men over an alleged plot to kill four members of the rap group OneFour.
The men, named in media reports as Brandon Maseuli and Yousef Rima, are part of an international criminal syndicate that originated in (...)