RIYADH — The weekly session of the Council of Ministers, chaired by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on Tuesday, reaffirmed the Kingdom's wishes for the world's security and stability on the advent of the holy month of (...)
To the casual observer, it seemed like the long-cherished dream of a new single currency for East Africa had come to fruition.
An account on X, called "Government of East Africa", complete with a grey tick suggesting it was the real deal, released (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia has expressed its support for the UN Security Council's recent resolution, which overwhelmingly calls for a ceasefire in Sudan for the duration of the upcoming holy month of Ramadan.
The (...)
In every era, a faction of "wily, troubled individuals" emerges, regrettably some of them Arabs. Their primary concern is to belittle, demean, and undermine others, casting governments and peoples in the light of "lies and fabrications."
During the (...)
The war in Sudan is "triggering the world's largest hunger crisis," with more than 25 million people "trapped in a spiral" of food insecurity, a United Nations agency has warned.
Nine in 10 people across the country face "emergency levels of hunger" (...)
DONETSK, eastern Ukraine — Maj Oleh Kravchenko has the sort of chuckle that's hard to resist — deep and treacly and mischievous.
"I'm still alive," he said, tilting his head to one side in his wheelchair, like a spectator marvelling at someone (...)
Two missiles have hit a ship off Yemen and caused a fire on board, authorities say, in another apparent attack by Yemen's rebel Houthi movement.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations agency said the unnamed vessel was in the Gulf of Aden when it was (...)
It's called the Munich Rule: engage and interact; don't lecture or ignore one another.
But this year, at the 60th Munich Security Conference (MSC), two of the most talked-about people weren't even here.
That included former US President Donald (...)
Zero energy light bulbs and sturdy bricks for schools and homes.
Some innovative communities in South Sudan are reusing waste in new ways as the world rallies to ban plastic pollution by the year's end, with help from a small team of experts led by (...)
Tunisia's coast guard retrieved the bodies of nine people who died after their boat sank on Thursday, marking the latest disaster for migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.
The coast guard also retrieved 45 people from the boat (...)
RIYADH — Saudi non-oil exports to the African continent surpassed SR128 billion over the last five years (2019-2023), marking a significant milestone in the Kingdom's trade expansion, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
The chemicals and polymers (...)
RIYADH — Prince Khalid bin Salman, minister of defense and chairman of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC), announced Saudi Arabia's commitment of SR100 million ($26.6 million) in support of (...)
CAIRO — Saudi Arabia and Egypt roundly rejected the collective punishment of the Palestinian people and urged Israel to stop the aggression on unarmed civilians in the Gaza Strip.
In a joint press conference after the Egyptian-Saudi consultations in (...)
Leading Kuwaiti columnist and businessman Ahmed Al-Sarraf wrote an impressive article in the Al-Qabas newspaper about the biggest secret behind the success of the Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Mohammed bin Salman.
Al-Sarraf listed some of (...)
Developing countries must lead efforts to reform outdated international institutions and frameworks, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in remarks to the third summit of the Group of 77 (G-77) and China, which opened on Sunday in Kampala, (...)
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 (...)
RIYADH — Deputy Foreign Minister Walid Al-Khuraiji reaffirmed Saudi Arabia's keen commitment to preserving the unity and territorial integrity of the republics of Somalia and Sudan. This commitment is seen as crucial to maintaining security, (...)
JEDDAH — The Saudi passport advanced its global ranking to 61st during the current year of 2024 from 65 during the year 2023.
The ranking was made among passports of more than 200 countries in the world, in terms of the number of countries that its (...)
Last year saw the highest number of civilian casualties killed or injured by explosives in more than a decade, according to new research.
The UK-based charity Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) recorded a 122% percent increase in civilian fatalities (...)
RIYADH — In 2023, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia emerged as a pivotal diplomatic player on the world stage, marking a year of strategic alignments and hosting a series of significant global summits.
This remarkable ascendancy in international diplomacy (...)
RIYADH — Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday outlined Saudi Arabia's comprehensive internal and external policies in his speech at the opening of the fourth year of the eighth session of the Shoura Council. The key points of the royal (...)
I recall what the famous poet Abu Firas Al-Hamdani said: "And my companions said fleeing or escaping. I said: They are two things, the sweetest of which is bitter."
This is exactly the condition of those who follow the bloody scenes in the Gaza (...)
Escalating attacks on US troops and commercial shipping and incidents often involving Iran and its proxies are causing new concerns that Israel's war in Gaza could widen into a regional conflagration with grave political and economic (...)
Most global political, spiritual and national leaders mark Christmas with a plea for peace, or by stressing the virtues of family and unity.
That's not Donald Trump's style.
The ex-president unleashed an online torrent of fury and bitterness, (...)
This year's surprising spike in dengue infections globally represents a potentially high public health threat, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
The warning came as WHO reported more than five million dengue infections and 5,000 (...)