CAIRO: On Tuesday, an important economic meeting headed by the Egyptian-Saudi Business Council will be held in Egypt to coincide with the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.  Ahmed Al-Wakil, chairman of

ISTANBUL, ANKARA: George Soros’ Open Society Foundation said on Monday it would cease operations in Turkey, days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the billionaire philanthropist of trying to divide and destroy nations. The

Cairo, Najaf: Iraq’s Parliament will vote in its next session scheduled on Tuesday on whether to approve the remaining eight candidates for Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s Cabinet, the speaker’s office said on Monday.

Authorities in Myanmar seized a boat carrying 93 Rohingya fleeing displacement camps in western Rakhine state in hopes to reach Malaysia, an official said on Tuesday. The vessel was the third bound for Malaysia

The latest economic analysis of the Brexit deal brought home by UK Prime Minister Theresa May has suggested the United Kingdom would be $140bn worse off over the next 10 years and would still

Argentina has been asked to investigate Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for possible war crimes in Yemen and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. New York-based Human Rights Watch said it submitted the

The late Jamaican-British intellectual Stuart Hall liked to describe the entanglement of the United Kingdom with the peoples of Africa and the Caribbean with the provocation: "I am the sugar at the bottom of

CAIRO: On Tuesday, an important economic meeting headed by the Egyptian-Saudi Business Council will be held in Egypt to coincide with the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.  Ahmed Al-Wakil, chairman of

CAIRO: This is the sixth visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Cairo, and the second since he assumed the post of crown prince in June 2017. The last time he visited,

JERUSALEM: The Bank of Israel, in a surprise move, raised short-term interest rates for the first time in more than seven years on Monday, and indicated that its monetary tightening path will be slow