The African Industrial and Development Conference and Awards (AIDCA) is set to host the Entrepreneurship Pitch Competition (EPC) finals in Abuja, Nigeria, in…
Blinken: US to give $150m in aid for Syria, Iraq at Saudi conference on combating Daesh group
DUBAI: Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that the US would provide nearly $150 million in aid for areas in Syria and…
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Tunis: A Tunisian army helicopter with four people on board is missing and feared crashed hours after vanishing from radar screens, the defense…
Music star Dua Lipa brands UK govt ‘small-minded’ over immigration
LONDON: British pop music star Dua Lipa has branded the UK government “short-sighted and small-minded” over its rhetoric toward migrants. The singer, of…
Turkiye jails teen who added moustache to Erdogan poster
ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities on Tuesday seized and jailed a 16-year-old youth for drawing a moustache on an election campaign poster showing re-elected President…
US vice president Kamala Harris: Israel needs ‘independent judiciary’
WASHINGTON: US vice president Kamala Harris said on Tuesday that Israel’s democracy requires “an independent judiciary,” wading into the controversy over Prime Minister…
Bangladesh power cuts may last two more weeks on fuel shortages
DHAKA: Bangladesh could face power cuts for two more weeks, its power minister said late on Sunday, as higher electricity consumption because of…
Shootout between Pakistani troops and insurgents in border region kills 2 soldiers, 2 militants
PESHAWAR: Pakistani troops and militants exchanged fire in a northwestern region along the border with Afghanistan in a shootout that killed two soldiers…
China says warship crossing in front of US destroyer was ‘safe’
BEIJING: The maneuver of a Chinese warship in the Taiwan Strait during an encounter with a US destroyer was completely reasonable, legal, professional…
Fighter jets chase small plane in Washington area before it crashes in Virginia
WASHINGTON: The United States scrambled F-16 fighter jets in a supersonic chase of a light aircraft with an unresponsive pilot that violated airspace…