Hon. Habeeb Bala / Royal minister

10/12/2021

Australia, Britain and US are among countries staging a diplomatic boycott of Winter Olympics

30/11/2020

"She hates doing it. We’ve never been huge fans of it, either. And yet, Melania Trump, an icon in the War Against Christmas, has done it again: decorated the White House," writes Alaina Demopoulos.

30/11/2020

Transparency in matters of health and, well, everything else, is fundamental to a functioning democracy. And we have had the opposite of that for these last four years. | Analysis by Chris Cillizza

Analysis by Chris Cillizza

28/11/2020

First of eight-phase polls to elect members of District Development Councils begins amid tight security.

30/10/2020

Latest attack comes amid heightened tensions between France and Muslim world over caricatures of Prophet Muhammad.

30/10/2020

Qatar referred several officials who were behind the invasive physical examinations of female passengers at Hamad International Airport to prosecutors, saying “standard procedures were violated”.

Prime minister issues ‘sincerest apology’ to female passengers who were subjected to invasive examinations.

17/10/2020

SUNY Oneonta has about 6,700 students enrolled, according to its website

17/10/2020

Canadian PM defiant after China’s ambassador to Ottawa, Cong Peiwu, warned against the granting asylum to HK activists.

07/10/2020

“Akure airport is already designated as an international cargo airport.”

04/10/2020

The Saudi Hajj minister said each group of 20 or 25 pilgrims will be accompanied by a health worker and medical teams will be on the ground in case of an emergency.

A limited number of citizens and residents permitted to enter Mecca’s Grand Mosque during first phase of reopening.

28/09/2020

What the Bahraini regime has done does not reflect the will of the Bahraini people — by Mariam Barghouti & Maryam Al-Khawaja.

What the Bahraini regime has done does not reflect the will of the Bahraini people.

28/09/2020

"One rule for them, another for the rest of us"

There’s often a charge levelled at the current government that it’s one rule for them and another for everyone else. And it seems there’s no desire on their end to cha...

24/09/2020

"I hope that this leads to some real change."

24/09/2020

The benefits of leaving the EU are at best remote. The timing of this couldn’t be worse.

24/09/2020

Facebook said Thursday it had identified and shut down a network of fake accounts that included fictitious personas it said were tied to Russian military intelligence

16/09/2020

Every 11 years, the sun completes a solar cycle of calm and stormy activity and begins a new one. The new solar cycle, Solar Cycle 25, officially began in December 2019. The sun's activity has been slowly increasing since then and is expected to peak in July 2025.

15/09/2020

“We just have to take loans to do roads, rail, and power, so that investors will find us attractive and come here to put their money."

11/09/2020

PHOTOS | Remembering the September 11th terrorist attacks on the 19th anniversary of the tragedy

On Sept. 11, 2001, four U.S. airliners were highjacked in a coordinated attack by the terrorist organization al-Qaeda against the United States, crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and an area outside of Shanksville, Penn. As a result,...

10/09/2020

The Taliban says nearly 100 of its prisoners have not been released and that talks will begin only after they are freed.

10/09/2020

It matters who the president is. Millions of lives and livelihoods depend on the person in the Oval Office -- whatever their party or ideology.

But President Donald Trump -- as he devastatingly revealed in his own voice to Bob Woodward -- met the great crisis of his age with ineptness, dishonesty and an epic dereliction of duty, writes CNN's Stephen Collinson.

08/09/2020

President Donald J. Trump's extraordinary comments come as several defense officials tell CNN relations between the President and Pentagon leadership are becoming increasingly strained

06/09/2020

Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris strongly rebuked President Trump and Attorney General William Barr for denying there's systemic racism in the US justice system, saying they are "spending full time in a different reality."

Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris strongly rebuked President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr for denying there's systemic racism in the US justice system, saying they are "spending full time in a different reality."

02/09/2020

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has told White House adviser Jared Kushner that Doha supports a two-state solution, with East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, to end the conflict with Israel.

The emir met US President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in Doha on Wednesday following a US-brokered accord last month between the United Arab Emirates and Israel to normalise ties.

Emir met Trump's senior adviser in Doha following a US-brokered accord between UAE and Israel to normalise ties.

01/09/2020

The UAE 'betrayed' the Islamic world and the Palestinians by reaching a deal towards normalising ties with Israel, says Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Supreme leader says UAE allowed 'Zionist regime to enter region and forgot Palestine' by normalising Israel ties.

31/08/2020

"A colossus in public life" who served India "with the spirit of a sage." - President Ram Nath Kovind.

Family announces death of former president who was admitted in hospital weeks ago, having also contracted COVID-19.