Bethan McKernan Middle East correspondent of the Guardian wrote a report about the aggression on Yemen. At the beginning of this year, the UN’s special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, praised the country’s warring parties for largely sticking to a ...
The head of the Arab Businessmen Union, Hamdi Al-Tabbaa, estimated that the losses of the Arab economy due to the Corona pandemic would amount to approximately $ 323 billion. Al-Tabbaa based his estimates, based on a recent report by the Internationa...
The UK economy is heading for its worst crash in more than 300 years because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new forecast from the Bank of England. The central bank said Thursday that the British economy could shrink by 14% this year....
The World Health Organization (WHO) is lacking $1.3 billion for its coronavirus response in 2020, Director-General of WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday. “The updated plan estimates that WHO requires $1.7 billion dollars to respond to COVID...
With much of the American economy in self-imposed shutdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, April’s colossal surge in unemployment delivered a historic blow to workers. The US economy lost 20.5 million jobs in April, the Bureau of Labor Statis...
The Saudi government issued a ministerial decision on Sunday to regulate the labor contract during exceptional circumstances caused by the coronavirus outbreak. It stipulates reducing salaries in the private sector by 40 percent with the possibility...
The United States is pulling its Patriot missile systems from Saudi soil as part of broader curbs on its military support for the Arab kingdom, a report says. Citing unnamed US officials, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that four Patrio...
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit the town of Damavand in northern Tehran province, Iran’s Seismic Monitoring Center said. Several aftershocks ranging from 2 to 2.5 degrees hit Tehran and its neighboring cities after the first quake hit the capital, t...
Saudi Arabia is condoning entering into a confrontation with the Emirates over the Yemeni island of Socotra, where the UAE authorities have always carried out various activities in order to impose their control on the island. This cannot continue fo...
Another three million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week as the coronavirus pandemic continued to extract its terrible toll on the US jobs market. Some 33 million jobless Americans have now made claims in the past seven weeks. The...
The US is removing four Patriot missile batteries and dozens of troops deployed to Saudi Arabia amid heightened tensions with Iran, according to a report published Thursday. The military assets were sent to Saudi Arabia after an attack on oil facil...
Pro-Palestine activists in Iran and elsewhere are making plans to replace street rallies with online events to commemorate this year’s International Quds Day as a deadly coronavirus pandemic has restricted social life and mass gatherings across the g...
Saudi Arabia recorded, on Wednesday, 1687 confirmed cases of the Coronavirus. Today’s rate represents a new record for confirmed COVID-19 infections in the Kingdom. A spokesman of the Health Ministry, Mohammed Al-Aali, said in a press conference tha...
It's a year of carnage for oil nations. But at least one will emerge from the pandemic both economically and geopolitically stronger. With 4 billion people around the world under lockdown as the coronavirus pandemic grows, demand for gasoline, je...
The United Nations has expressed concern about the rapid spread of the new coronavirus in overcrowded prisons in the United States and the rest of the American continent. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned on Tuesda...
A Chinese coronavirus researcher who was “on the verge” of making a breakthrough in the pandemic fight has been killed in a suspected murder-suicide. The research assistant professor, identified as Bing Liu, 37, was found in his townhouse in Pennsy...
US President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday that his country will ‘definitely’ report on the origin of COVID-19 soon. “We will be reporting very definitively over a period of time,” he told reporters at the White House. Trump also said that Chi...
Canadian Anthropologica journal revealed on Monday Canada's participation in killing the Yemeni people, by selling weapons to countries of coalition waging war on Yemen over the past five years. The report, written by Jelena Golubović, deputy editor...
A newspaper report, on Sunday, revealed the long history of the UAE in support of the division of Yemen since 1994, where it worked to incite its separatist militias and finance them with money and weapons to spread chaos and sabotage to gain influe...
Norwegian journalist Helge Simonnes drew a startling parallel between US President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler. In his opinion piece in the newspaper Dagsavisen, titled “A Tarzan Against Corona”, Simonnes wondered whether Americans who voted Trum...