Arab and International

Saudi Finance Minister Abdullah Al-Jadaan has tried to justify the position of King Salman and his son from the responsibility for the deteriorating economic and living conditions of the Saudi citizen, by placing full responsibility on…

The US government’s $3 trillion effort to rescue the economy from the coronavirus crisis is stirring worry at the Pentagon. Bulging federal deficits may force a reversal of years of big defense spending gains and threaten prized projects…

The number of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in the United States may be higher than the current official death toll count given, National Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases Director Anthony Fauci said during a Senate…

A Saudi Arabian energy ministry official said on Monday that the ministry has directed national oil company Aramco to reduce its crude oil production for June by an extra voluntary amount of 1 million barrels per day, on top of the…

At least one civilian was killed and 20 others wounded when an explosive device exploded in a market in al-Bab town of northeastern Aleppo countryside, where terrorist groups supported by Turkish occupation forces are deployed. According…

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shatyyeh has called on the international community to recognize an independent Palestinian state if Israel goes on with its plan to annex larger parts of the occupied West Bank. During a press…

Former US President Barack Obama committed the “biggest political crime in American history,” says the country’s current leader, Donald Trump. “The biggest political crime in American history, by far!” the president wrote in a…

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on Monday condemned US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for telling one lie after another in his attacks on China over the origin of novel coronavirus and other issues. Source: Press TV

Sales of Saudi crude have reached practically zero. Saudi oil tankers are lost in the open sea, including the world's largest Saudi tanker, "Super Tank," without a final destination. More than 40 million barrels of Saudi oil are stored at…

There’s something profound about the irony. The world’s highest coronavirus death tolls belong to two countries whose leaders came to power promising the restoration of greatness and control – the United States and Great Britain. Neither…

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said that slowly removing lockdowns is key to reviving economies, noting a “great deal of success” in slowing the spread of the coronavirus, but…

Gulf stock markets lost ground in early trade on Monday, with Saudi Arabia’s index falling the most after the kingdom said it will triple its value-added tax rate and suspend a cost of living allowance for state employees to shore up its…

In light of COVID-19 crisis, UN officials Monday called for the immediate release of Palestinian children held in Israeli detention centers. In a joint press statement, Jamie McGoldrick, Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied…

Iraq's pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), known in Arabic as Hashd al-Sha'abi, says its anti-terror fighters have killed a top leader of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in eastern province of Diyala. In an interview with…

A US report confirmed that radical changes will take place in Saudi Arabia, the most prominent of which is the lifestyle of its citizens in the near future, adding that the Saudis will not live as their parents lived and they see that the…

The US military is removing Patriot antimissile systems from Saudi Arabia as part of a shift of forces and equipment in the region, a US official confirmed. The Wall Street Journal first reported o Thursday that Washington is moving…

The new coronavirus has now infected 4,101,641 people and killed 280,435 others globally, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The United States remains the worst-hit nation, with more than 1,340,000 cases of infection and over…

A high-ranking official with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has denounced any form of normalization of ties with the Israeli Enemy regime as a crime that cannot be absolved. Speaking through the video link at an Arab…

The United States has reportedly established a new military base in Syria’s oil-rich eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr after bringing in reinforcements to the war-torn Arab country. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…