JEDDAH — Intensive training sessions are under way for Saudi Arabia's first-ever women's national football team at the end of a long process of screening and performance tests.
A highly professional and well-qualified technical staff made a number (...)
The US has agreed to respond to Russia's demands over NATO positions in Europe in writing next week, Sergei Lavrov said on Friday after a second round of talks over Ukraine.
Russia's foreign minister described his two-hour discussion with his US (...)
Hackers targeting the International Red Cross (ICRC) have stolen the personal details of more than half a million "highly vulnerable" people.
The humanitarian organization, which works with victims of war, the missing and detainees around the world, (...)
أعلنت غرفة المخواة بالتعاون مع المعهد العالي للسياحة والضيافة (فرع الباحة) عن برامج دبلوم (مبتدئة بالتوظيف) ودورات قصيرة (مع عروض وظيفية)، وذلك وفقاً للتفاصيل الموضحة أدناه.
البرامج:
1- دبلوم إدارة مطاعم:
– توقيع عقد عمل من بداية التدريب.
– الشهادة (...)
Addressing the virtual World Economic Forum, on Monday, the United Nations' Secretary-General, António Guterres, told world and business leaders that "global solidarity is missing in action".
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, for the second year in (...)
The prestigious, energy and sustainability-focused global platform, World Future Energy Summit, hosted by Masdar as part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, began Monday with five simultaneous thought leadership forums. The Solar & Clean Energy, (...)
Before Covid-19, Nicolas Rimoldi had never attended a protest.
But somewhere along the pandemic's long and tortuous road, which saw his native Switzerland imposing first one lockdown, then another, and finally introducing vaccination certificates, (...)
UN human rights officials have welcomed the "historic" conviction on Thursday by a German court of a former senior Syrian intelligence officer, for crimes against humanity.
The man, known as Anwar R, was charged with complicity in the torture of (...)
The latest results from the Henley Passport Index show record-breaking levels of travel freedom for top-ranking nations Japan and Singapore, but also the widest recorded global mobility gap since the index's inception 17 years ago.
Without taking (...)
Canada was moved to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's highest-risk category for travel on Monday, CNN reported.
The world's second-largest country by total area, Canada has seen a steep rise in cases as the Omicron variant spreads. (...)
US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said she does not know yet whether Russia is prepared to de-escalate the situation with Ukraine following its massive build-up of Russian troops near Ukraine's border and fears of a possible (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia ranked second among the G20 countries in terms of the best economic performance during the third quarter of 2021, with posting a growth of 5.7 percent on a quarterly basis.
An analysis of indices issued by the G20 countries and (...)
A rare "walking" handfish which is native only to Australia has been spotted for the first time in 22 years off the Tasmanian coast, according to BBC.
The pink handfish was last sighted by a diver off Tasmania in 1999 and has only been seen four (...)
The World Economic Forum (WEF) will defer its 2022 annual meeting from January to early summer, it said on Monday.
The meeting, scheduled for Jan. 17-21 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, was postponed due to the "continued uncertainty over the Omicron (...)
Israel's Ministry of Health on Sunday decided to ban travel to ten more countries to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.
The ban will take effect on Wednesday and will include the United States, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, (...)
"The mountain for me is like the ocean, a space of liberty where you go where you want. We must respect these beautiful and magical places."
That's the message on International Mountain Day from passionate climber and UN Geneva worker, Michel (...)
based solutions have emerged at COP26 as one of the top hot remedies to cool our fevered planet, reflected in multiple announcements of investing in blue carbon and afforestation projects. These projects all require a commitment of permanence of the (...)
Features of the new COVID-19 variant Omicron, including the extent to which it will spread, and the sheer number of mutations, suggest that it could have a major impact on the course of the pandemic, but it's still too early to say for sure.
That (...)
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 (...)
The United States and their European allies condemned the Taliban on Sunday following reports that former members of the Afghan security forces were executed or forcibly disappeared.
"We are deeply concerned by reports of summary killings and (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, may hold an online meeting "in the next few days," Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday.
"We have a specific date and time for this video conference," Ushakov told reporters (...)
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, (...)
The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) has confirmed that starting from Wednesday morning, Saudi Arabia has lifted the suspension of direct flights from six countries. The ban was imposed in March 2020 to contain the spread of (...)
Securing the funding needed for sustainable development by involving as many actors from different sectors as possible, is more urgent than ever, amid a widening "trust deficit" between the haves and the have-nots, the UN Deputy Secretary-General (...)
Swiss voters have backed the government's measures to tackle Covid, BBC reported citing preliminary results.
More than 60% opposed moves to remove some restrictions, including the Covid vaccination pass.
Sunday's referendum came after organizers (...)
