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Saudi Arabia suspends international flights and land and sea entry for a week
Saudi Arabia suspended late on Sunday all international commercial flights for a renewable week except for the foreign flights already in the kingdom which will be allowed to leave, state news agency SPA reported quoting an interior ministry source.
21 December 2020, 04:29 AM
KSA’s investment plans in India on track: Saudi envoy to India
Saudi Arabia’s investment plans in India are on track, Saudi Arabian Ambassador in India Dr Saud bin Mohammed Al Sati has said, adding that the Indian economy has the strength to recover from the adverse impact of the Covid-19 crisis.
20 December 2020, 18:19 PM
Fauci gives Santa vaccine
Santa Claus can safely deliver gifts to good girls and boys on Christmas, after a special visitor went all the way to the North Pole to deliver a coronavirus vaccine.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Trump plays down Russia’s role in US cyberattact
US President Donald Trump, in his first comments about a widespread data breach across the US government, on Saturday downplayed the cyber espionage campaign and questioned whether Russia was to blame as alleged by his own top diplomat.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
‘No time to waste’
US President-elect Joe Biden introduced his climate and energy team on Saturday, a history-making group that will seek to advance an ambitious climate agenda that reverses many Trump administration policies.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Nepal in fresh political crisis
Nepal’s president dissolved parliament yesterday at the request of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s cabinet and announced that general elections would be held in April and May, more than a year ahead of schedule.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Climate change could create 63m migrants in South Asia by 2050
The growing impacts of climate change have already pushed more than 18 million people to migrate within South Asian countries, but that could more than triple if global warming continues on its current path, researchers has warned.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Kabul car bomb attack kills nine
A car bomb targeting an Afghan lawmaker killed nine people and wounded more than a dozen in Kabul yesterday, officials said, the latest attack to rock the capital.
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Thousands in Belarus protest Lukashenko’s rule
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Belarus yesterday as they sought to keep the pressure on President Alexander Lukashenko over his
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Dozens of children freed after new abduction in Nigeria
Local vigilantes rescued dozens of schoolchildren abducted by bandits in the northern Nigerian state of Katsina after a gun battle, police said yesterday. G
20 December 2020, 18:00 PM
New Covid-19 strain: Belgium, Italy, Netherlands ban flights from UK
Several European countries placed new restrictions on travel to and from the United Kingdom on Sunday due to concern over a new strain of the coronavirus that is spreading rapidly there.
20 December 2020, 14:33 PM
Fisheries dispute threatens to sink post-Brexit trade deal
Negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal were deadlocked and threatened by failure on Sunday, as both sides dug in their heels over access to the UK's rich fishing waters.
20 December 2020, 14:07 PM
Hundreds of children stood trial for ‘insulting’ Erdogan over six years: report
Figures have shown 903 minors, including 264 children aged between 12 and 14, stood trial for “insulting” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over a six-year period, reports Al Arabiya.
20 December 2020, 12:12 PM
Nine dead as Kabul car bombing targets Afghan lawmaker
A car bombing in Kabul targeting an Afghan lawmaker killed at least nine people, officials said.
20 December 2020, 10:34 AM
Two more suspects linked to Vienna attack arrested: prosecutors
An Austrian of Afghan descent whose genetic material was allegedly found on the weapon that a jihadist used to kill four people in Vienna last month has been arrested, prosecutors said today.
20 December 2020, 09:19 AM
Biden unveils diverse team tasked with ambitious climate agenda
US President-elect Joe Biden introduced his climate and energy team on Saturday, a history-making group that will seek to advance an ambitious climate agenda that reverses many Trump administration policies.
20 December 2020, 04:32 AM
Bolsonaro warns virus vaccine can turn people into ‘crocodiles’
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has launched an attack on coronavirus vaccines, even suggesting that the one developed by Pfizer-BioNTech could turn people into crocodiles or bearded ladies.
19 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Chilean president handed $3,500 fine for mask-less selfie
Chilean President Sebastian Pinera was slapped with a $3,500 fine on Friday after posing for a selfie on the beach with a bystander without wearing a mask as required during the coronavirus pandemic, health authorities said.
19 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Pompeo says Russia behind US cyberattack
Russia was “pretty clearly” behind a devastating cyberattack on several US government agencies that also hit targets worldwide, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.
19 December 2020, 18:00 PM
China offers to work with Biden
China’s top diplomat on Friday offered cooperation on key priorities of President-elect Joe Biden, warning that Beijing’s many US critics were creating an atmosphere of “McCarthyism” and ignoring common interests.
19 December 2020, 18:00 PM