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  • March 15, 2017

    Arab states suffer from ‘regressive’ education programmes

    The Arab world has experienced a “glaring regression” in the quality of its cultural and education programmes, according to Director-General of the Arab Organisation for Education, Culture and Science...

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  • March 15, 2017

    IATA chief expects UAE Airline profitability to fall in 2017

    Airlines in the Middle East will have a tough year, the Director General of the International Air Transport Association IATA, Alexandre de Johnnyak, said yesterday. Johnnyak said during a...

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  • March 15, 2017

    Qatar to provide 1m jobs in the Arab world by 2020

    Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser said the foundation intends to provide more than one million jobs by 2020, in various...

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  • March 15, 2017

    Israeli forces demolish Palestinian home in Silwan

    Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian home in the Silwan neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem on yesterday afternoon without prior notice, under the pretext that it was built without Israeli-issued...

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  • March 15, 2017

    HRW: Egypt ‘apathetic’ towards fleeing Christians

    Since late February, hundreds of Christians have fled the northern Sinai Peninsula in fear of their lives after seven Christians were murdered by suspected Daesh militants in the town...

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  • March 15, 2017

    UAE: VAT will not exceed 5% in the Gulf

    VAT of no more than five per cent will be applied from the beginning of 2018 to goods in the Gulf States, a senior Emirati official said today. Obaid...

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  • March 15, 2017

    Twitter scrambles over Turkey cyber-attacks amid ‘Nazi’ row

    Dozens of high profile Twitter accounts were subject to cyber-attacks that included swastikas and threats amid a diplomatic spat between Turkey and some western European countries. Last week, Turkish...

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  • March 15, 2017

    25 killed in second bombing in Damascus

    A second bomb has struck in Damascus hours after a suicide attacker struck at the Justice Palace in Al-Hamidiyeh. Thirty-one people were thought to have been killed in the...

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  • March 15, 2017

    70,000 South Sudan refugees escape to Sudan

    More than 70,000 South Sudanese refugees have arrived in the Sudan since the beginning of February pushing the total close to 100,000, the Sudanese Aid Commissioner has said. The...

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  • March 15, 2017

    16,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Italy this year

    The Italian Interior Ministry said yesterday that the number of illegal immigrants who had arrived in the country has increased to reach nearly 16,000 immigrants since the beginning of...

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