RIYADH — Saudi Arabia was represented by Abdullah Bin Yahya Al-Muallami, Kingdom's permanent representative to the United Nations, during an extraordinary ministerial conference of donors to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (...)
Businessman Yaqoob Al Awadhi said that reducing reliance on cash and increasing the use of digital and electronic services like e-wallets, mobile phones, and internet banking are one of the pros and gains of the corona pandemic crisis. He expressed (...)
Borders opened up across Europe on Monday after three months of coronavirus closures that began so chaotically in March. But many restrictions persist and it's unclear how keen Europeans will be to travel this summer and the continent is still (...)
To protect the future of human health, advanced research centers and laboratories in the United Arab Emirates are pursuing bilateral partnerships with international organizations and countries to combat COVID-19.
UAE research centers and (...)
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) explained, through a statement posted on its official website, that the financial pledges announced during the high-level virtual Pledging Event for Yemen 2020, amounted to (...)
Sweden's economy is on track to shrink 7% this year, in line with the government's forecast from its spring budget, Reuters quoted Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson as saying on Tuesday.
"Our best forecast today is negative GDP growth of 7% this (...)
DUBAI — Iran has sentenced a young Christian woman to 10 lashes and three months in prison for allegedly demonstrating against the military's downing of a Ukrainian airplane in January.
Mary Mohammadi, 21, was arrested in Tehran on Jan. 12 and (...)
Sixteen students have passed all their courses for the Air Traffic Control Diploma from Airways International Academy in New Zealand.
This group is the second of the four batches of graduates to have gained their ATC diplomas from abroad. The (...)
The World Health Organisation praised Sweden as "a future model" in the next phase of fighting the outbreak because it has trusted people to observe social distancing rules.
Uniquely in Europe, Sweden chose not to tackle the pandemic with an (...)
Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, Minister of Foreign Affairs, received a phone call today from Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden Ann Linde.
During the call, they discussed the bilateral relationship and cooperation between (...)
I have no doubt that enhancing human rights is a lofty value that should be translated into legal and institutional frameworks and daily cultural practices!
However, there are days accompanied by disasters and crises, causing every human being (...)
DUBAI — Netflix delivered its first positive free cash flow quarter but the Q2 guidance on net additions of subscribers was disappointing suggesting less positive impact on Netflix relative to the existing trajectory before the COVID-19 (...)
OPPO announced that it has successfully conducted voice and video calls solely based on the next-generation 5G network, bringing high-quality 5G experience closer to reality.
5G VoNR call achieved on OPPO and MediaTek's devices partnering with (...)
A great reset of the global debt bubble is upon us. The first steps washed over the currency market with the usual patterns of risk-off behavior and squaring of crowded speculative positions. EM currencies have collapsed, the smaller G10 currencies (...)
Sweden has reported more than 1000 deaths from the novel Coronavirus since the beginning of the outbreak of the epidemic.
The Health authorities of Sweden said today that the number of deaths from Coronavirus reached 1033, while the confirmed cases (...)
Sweden reported 114 deaths of the novel Coronavirus during the past 24 hours.
In a statement, a toll published today by the Public Health Agency of Sweden said that a part of the 114 new deaths refers to numbers that have been corrected in the (...)
The United Arab Emirates on Sunday reported 102 new coronavirus cases and one new death, with the total number of cases in the country up to 570, according to the health ministry.
The new fatality is a 47-year-old Arab woman who suffered from (...)
The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHaP) today announced the detection of 102 new COVID-19 cases, bringing to 570 the total number of infections in the country.
The new cases were identified when examining individuals who were in contact with (...)
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates announced 72 new cases of coronavirus, raising the total number of infections in the country to 405, the state news agency WAM reported on Friday quoting a statement from the UAE's Ministry of Health and (...)
DUBAI — Morocco confirmed on Saturday that the total number of coronavirus cases in the country has risen to 18, including Transport, Logistics and Water Minister Abdelkader Amara who contracted the virus while on a European trip, the state news (...)
The Ministry of Health announced that every traveler who came to the Kingdom from the date of March 13, 2020 onwards must remain in the home quarantine and will be granted medical leave equivalent to the duration of his/her quarantine.
The Ministry (...)
The Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations, Ambassador Abdullah bin Yahiya Al-Muallemi, received today at his office at the headquarters of the Kingdom's delegation in New York, the permanent representative of (...)
JEDDAH — Former chairman of the managing committee of International Indian School Jeddah (IISJ), Mohammad Asif Rameez Daudi, has been appointed as international honorary adviser of Millennial India International Chamber of Commerce, Industry and (...)
Prince Faisal bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Riyadh Region, received here today Ambassador of Sweden to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Niclas Trouve, who bade farewell to the prince on the occasion of the end of his term as his country's (...)
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Member of the Cabinet Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir valued the role and efforts of the Kingdom of Sweden, in relation to the Stockholm Agreement, peace process and issues of the region.
This came during a joint (...)
