Advisor at the Royal Court and General Supervisor of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Dr. Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabeeah confirmed that Saudi Arabia has for many years been the largest donor country to Yemen, providing (...)
Maymunah Ahmed stands out from the crowds as she navigates her way up the cobblestone pathway to the city of Bern's iconic Rose Garden viewpoint in her traditional Islamic attire. The abaya robe and dark green hijab she wears remain an uncommon (...)
Despite the economic devastation wrought by COVID-19, the new technology sector continued to thrive and prosper last year, the UN's intellectual property agency said in a new report published on Monday.
According to the findings of the World (...)
The 11,000 square meters 'ephemeral fresco' was created by Swiss artist Saype. It shows two children building the world of the future in using origami and represents, among other messages, the participation of young people in the United (...)
The United Kingdom has added seven new destinations to its travel green list, including six in Europe.
All passengers arriving in the UK from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Switzerland, and the Azores will no longer have to (...)
What's in a name, for a rose with any other name would still smell sweet. That quote by William Shakespeare would be met with some skepticism by the scientific community over naming COVID and its variants.
Sai Reddy, a professor of synthetic (...)
The vast majority of people with high blood pressure, or hypertension, — a serious medical condition that significantly increases the risks of heart, brain, kidney and other diseases — live in low and middle-incomes countries, a World Health (...)
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved on Tuesday an additional manufacturing site for the production of Comirnaty, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer.
The site, located in Saint Remy sur Avre, France, will manufacture (...)
Global warming increased the likelihood and intensity of the floods that ravaged Germany and Belgium in July, claiming more than 200 lives and causing billions of euros worth of damage, according to a study by leading world scientists released on (...)
As the global aid community marked World Humanitarian Day on Thursday, UN chief António Guterres paid tribute to all those who help people in need and urged support for the day's #TheHumanRace campaign, which aims to protect the most vulnerable (...)
The urgent need to reduce emissions and slow global heating, should involve the roll-out of more nuclear power stations, regional UN energy experts argued in a new briefing on Wednesday.
Only weeks before world leaders gather in Glasgow to hammer (...)
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made a phone call Wednesday with his Russian counterpart Gen. Sergei Shoigu. During the call, they discussed a number of issues of common interest.
The two sides also discussed ways to support transparency and (...)
Greece's prime minister has apologized for any "weaknesses" in efforts to quell wildfires that continue to rage on one of the country's islands, amid criticism over the government's handling of the disaster.
Huge fires have been burning for more (...)
Six months after seizing power in a coup, Myanmar's military leaders now appear to be moving to consolidate their rule, the UN Special Envoy for the country said on Tuesday, in her latest briefing to journalists in New York.
Christine Schraner (...)
Fires of "biblical catastrophe" continue to burn through Greek forests, forcing the evacuations of thousands of people as a political storm brews in Turkey over the worst wildfires in recent history.
Three large wildfires churned across Greece on (...)
Entrepreneurship can mean more freedom for women according to the first Latin-American advocate of eTrade for All, an initiative developed by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to expand and promote the digital economy, (...)
China has begun constructing its first underground research laboratory in the Gobi Desert, to determine the area's suitability for future geological disposal of high level radioactive waste (HLW), including spent nuclear fuel, generated in China's (...)
Ladakh, declared a Union Territory on Aug. 5 by the Indian government, is seeing increased development as New Delhi has implemented several development projects that aim to build a clean, green, healthy, and wealthy Union Territory of Ladakh.
The (...)
Government plans to make access to public spaces conditional on health checks have provoked more protest demonstrations in France, Switzerland, and Italy.
Under the schemes, vaccination cards, or a recent negative Covid-19 test, are to be made (...)
Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing global climate, water-related hazards top the list of natural disasters with the highest human losses in the past 50 years, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was visiting flood-ravaged areas in the country on Sunday as the death toll in Western Europe climbed past 180.
"It is a surreal and ghostly situation, I would almost say that the German language is struggling to find (...)
Europe has been battered by days of torrential rain and floods that have left more than 150 people dead and hundreds more missing.
By Saturday, waters were receding across much of the affected regions, but officials feared that more bodies might be (...)
RIYADH — Expatriates will not be allowed to enter the Kingdom from nine countries facing a travel ban unless they spend two weeks in a third country after their departure from these countries, the General Directorate of Passports (Jawazat) has (...)
Torrential rain and flooding have left more than 100 people dead and hundreds missing in western Europe, with Germany bearing the brunt of the worst natural disaster in living memory.
At least 50 people have died in Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has expressed its solidarity with Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg over the deadly floods that have caused devastation in some areas of western Europe.
In a statement on Friday, the Saudi foreign ministry (...)
