Arab and International

Egypt announces 3 day-mourning on death of Mubarak

Tuesday, 25 February 2020

The Egyptian Presidency’s Office on Tuesday announced three-day mourning throughout the country over the death of the former Egyptian president Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, according to a spokesman for the presidency office. Mubarak died on Tuesday at th...

Coronavirus Death Toll Reaches 12 in Iran

Tuesday, 25 February 2020

Iran's Health Ministry says the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in the country has reached 12, while the number of confirmed infections stands at 64. The ministry's spokesman Iraj Harirchi was speaking at a press conference in Tehran on Mon...

WHO Experts Visit Chinese Virus Epicentre

Monday, 24 February 2020

Experts from the World Health Organization have visited the locked-down central Chinese city at the epicentre of the deadly global coronavirus outbreak, Chinese authorities said Monday. The trip over the weekend is the first reported visit to Wuhan...

Saudi stock exchange suffers heavy losses after Yanbu’s attacks

Monday, 24 February 2020

The main stock exchanges’ shares in Saudi Arabia on Sunday continued to record heavy losses for the second day in a row, affected by the recent attacks on Aramco facilities in Yanbu. The index of Saudi stock exchange fell 0.3 percent, as the shares ...

WHO Sounds Alarm over Africa Coronavirus Preparedness

Sunday, 23 February 2020

The World Health Organization warned Saturday that African health systems would be ill-equipped to respond to the deadly coronavirus outbreak should cases start to proliferate on the continent. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called on African...

Israeli occupation arrests 7 Palestinians in West Bank, al-Quds

Sunday, 23 February 2020

Israeli occupation forces launched on Sunday and Saturday evening a massive arrest campaign among Palestinian citizens in the occupied Palestinian territories, where they arrested three Palestinians from the West Bank and four others from occupied al...

Israeli fighter jets penetrate Lebanese air spaces

Sunday, 23 February 2020

The fighter jets of the Israeli army penetrated on Saturday the Lebanese air spaces, leadership of Lebanese army said on a statement. According to SANA Agency, six fighter jets belonging to the Israeli army penetrated the Lebanese air spaces and car...

Saudi Arabia Admits Strikes, Explosions, Rock Yanbu Oil City

Saturday, 22 February 2020

Violent explosions rocked in the early hours of Friday shook the Yanbu oil and industrial area in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. Saudi news agency SPA reported a statement by the coalition spokesman, Turki al-Maliki, about an attack with a number of ballis...

Turkey Confirms Presence of Allied Syria Mercenaries in Libya

Saturday, 22 February 2020

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has confirmed for the first time the presence of pro-Turkish Syrian militants in Libya. “Turkey is there with a training force. There are also people from the Syrian National Army,” Erdogan told reporters in Ist...