RIYADH — The Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced on Wednesday its approval for skier Fayik Abdi to represent the Kingdom in Alpine skiing races at the Winter Olympics.
Abdi will compete in giant slalom during Saudi Arabia's maiden (...)
Although international action over the past 25 years has led to the release of more than 170,000 boys and girls recruited to fight, more remains to be done, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday.
Guterres was among senior officials, (...)
The eruption of an underwater volcano near Tonga on Saturday was likely the biggest recorded anywhere on the planet in more than 30 years, according to experts.
Dramatic images from space captured the eruption in real time, as a huge plume of ash, (...)
Super Typhoon Rai which ripped through the Philippines over Christmas, has created a massive emergency with huge and ongoing needs, UN humanitarians said on Friday.
Communities are still reeling from the effects of the typhoon, which made landfall (...)
RIYADH – The flight ticket prices to the Philippines skyrocketed reaching up to 360 percent, according to the recruitment and travel industry sources.
The ticket charges for one way travel from Dammam to Manila ranged between SR6000 and SR7000 while (...)
The defense ministers of Japan and China on Monday agreed to set up a joint communication hotline by the end of 2022, a news release from Japan's Defense Ministry said, amid tensions between the East Asian neighbors.
CNN said China's Defense (...)
India's government has refused to renew the foreign-funding license for a charity founded by Mother Teresa, according to BBC.
The Missionaries of Charity has thousands of nuns supervising projects like homes for abandoned children, schools, clinics (...)
The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has risen to 389, with 64 still missing, the dpa quoted the national disaster agency as said on Monday.
More than 4 million people in central and southern provinces were (...)
RIYADH – Brig. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki, spokesman of the Arab Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, said that a large number of civilians, including Saudis and foreign nationals, have been killed in the attacks carried out by the terrorist Houthi (...)
The death toll from the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year has risen to 389, with 64 still missing, the country's national disaster agency was quoted as saying on Monday.
More than 4 million people in central and southern provinces (...)
RIYADH – The Arab Coalition revealed on Sunday evidence proving the involvement of Lebanon's Hezbollah militia in Yemen and using the Sana'a airport to target Saudi Arabia.
The Coalition published pictures of Hezbollah members training the Houthi (...)
Many migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are denied basic human rights, and suffered abuse at the hands of their employers. Since the worsening economic crisis in the country their plight has, if anything, worsened.
"The recruitment agencies and (...)
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has sent a cable of condolences and sympathy to President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines after Super Typhoon Rai hit southern and central parts of the island nation, resulting in deaths and (...)
Reports of "utter devastation" caused by Super Typhoon Rai have continued to come in from the Philippines, where the UN is helping respond to urgent needs.
In an update posted online early on Monday, the top UN humanitarian coordinator in the (...)
At least 375 people are now known to have died after a powerful storm struck the Philippines on Thursday, police say.
Super Typhoon Rai — with winds of about 195km/h (120mph) — sent some 400,000 people running for safety when it hit the country's (...)
At least 208 people are now known to have died after a powerful storm struck the Philippines on Thursday, police and local media a are quoted as saying by BBC News.
Super Typhoon Rai - with winds of about 195km/h (120mph) - sent some 300,000 people (...)
A popular tourist island is among areas left devastated after a powerful typhoon ripped through the southern Philippines, BBC reported.
Super typhoon Rai made landfall on the holiday island of Siargao on Thursday, bringing winds of about 195km/h (...)
Super Typhoon Rai, known locally as Odette, slammed into the eastern coast of the Philippines Thursday afternoon, bringing torrential rain and the threat of widespread flooding across the archipelago, CNN reported.
The storm rapidly intensified on (...)
RIYADH — The Musaned portal, under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, has suspended all requests to issue visas for Filipino domestic workers effective from this week, officials of a number of local recruitment offices have (...)
The Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND) is honoring four winners of Prince Talal International Prize for Human Development under the subject "Ending Hunger, Achieving Food Security and Improved Nutrition, and Promoting Sustainable (...)
The Philippines will ban travel from France starting Dec. 13 to stem the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, a government official said Wednesday.
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said the ban will take effect until Dec. 15 just like the 14 (...)
Forty countries now have best-practice trans fat elimination policies in effect, protecting 1.4 billion people from this deadly food compound, according to a report released on Tuesday by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Around 940 million (...)
RIYADH – The recruitment offices in Saudi Arabia have halted procedures for hiring Filipino domestic workers since last Sunday, and this was attributed to a new decision of the Ministry of Labor of the Philippines to suspend sending domestic (...)
There was a dramatic increase in internal displacement due to disasters, conflict and violence in 2020, but global mobility overall, ground to a halt due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.
That is the main finding of the World Migration Report 2022, (...)
RIYADH - The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development said that its timely intervention has resulted in resolving dispute between a Saudi citizen and a number of Filipino housemaids and they were then returned to the Philippines.
The (...)
