BEIJING: The deputy head of the Saudi Human Rights Commission recently outlined the Kingdom’s achievements on human rights at an event in Beijing. Speaking at an international symposium to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Leggi tutto…
DUBAI: Funding for a joint effort by the US and the UAE to advance climate-friendly farming around the world has grown to more than $17 billion, the countries announced on Friday at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, according to Leggi tutto…
PORT SAID, Egypt: Saudi Arabia’s third ship of aid for Gaza has arrived at Port Said in Egypt. The goods will be distributed by the Kingdom’s aid organization, KSrelief, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Thursday. The ship carries 300 Leggi tutto…
DUBAI: Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley claimed on Wednesday that spending time on social media app TikTok made people “17 percent more antisemitic, more pro-Hamas” every 30 minutes. During the Republican presidential primary debate, Haley said: “We really do Leggi tutto…
CAIRO: Hamas said on Friday that Israel had bombed Gaza’s medieval Omari Mosque causing widespread destruction to the building and calling it a “heinous, barbaric crime.” Photographs carried by Hamas-run media in Gaza that Reuters could not immediately verify showed Leggi tutto…
BERLIN: Axel Springer is shutting down the news outlet Upday, the German publishing giant said on Friday, in plans to revive the brand as a “trend news generator” driven by artificial intelligence. Upday will close by the end of the year in Leggi tutto…
JEDDAH: More than 1,000 local, Arab and international publishing houses are displaying their products at the fifth Jeddah Book Fair launched on Thursday by the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission under the slogan “Ports of Culture.” The event, being held Leggi tutto…
RIYADH: Al-Ettifaq manager Steven Gerrard said it was “extremely nice” to have Moussa Dembele back in Roshn Saudi League action after his No. 9 made a substitute return following knee surgery. The former Fulham, Celtic, Atletico Madrid and Lyon striker Leggi tutto…
LONDON: The Committee to Protect Journalists has urged Israeli authorities to release Palestinian journalist Diaa Al-Kahlout, who was detained in northern Gaza on Dec. 7. Al-Kahlout, the chief bureau correspondent for the Qatari-funded, London-based Arab newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, was detained Leggi tutto…
DUBAI: Kawthar Ben Haniyeh’s portrait of a Tunisian mother and her four daughters living in a society wracked by extremism has won the inaugural Asharq Documentary Award. The awards are named after Saudi Research and Media Group’s Arabic free-to-air channel Leggi tutto…