JEDDAH: Progress and modernism sometimes spell the end of an era and the traditional way of life. This is essayed brilliantly in director Xiaoxuan Jiang’s“To Kill A Mongolian Horse,” which had its MENA region premiere at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah and is up for consideration for Leggi tutto…
CAIRO: Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 19 Palestinians overnight and on Tuesday, medics said, as Israeli tanks pushed into areas in central and southern parts of the enclave. Overnight, an Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 people in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, where Israeli forces Leggi tutto…
DUBAI: The UAE will impose a minimum top-up tax (DMTT) of 15 percent on large multinational companies operating in the country starting in January, the finance ministry said on Monday as the government seeks to boost non-oil revenue. The DMTT is part of the OECD’s global minimum corporate tax agreement Leggi tutto…
PARIS: French party leaders will gather at President Emmanuel Macron’s Elysee Palace office Tuesday afternoon in a bid to chart a route toward a new government, days after Prime Minister Michel Barnier was toppled in a confidence vote. Shutting out the far-right National Rally (RN) and hard-left France Unbowed (LFI), Leggi tutto…
LONDON: Oil prices slipped on Tuesday as concerns eased about the fallout from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s overthrow, but the market found support in China’s vow to ramp up policy stimulus, which could boost the top global crude buyer’s demand. Brent crude futures fell 26 cents, or about 0.4 percent, Leggi tutto…
PARIS: Iran-backed Hezbollah needs to focus on domestic issues in Lebanon and not the wider region, senior Lebanese Maronite politician Gebran Bassil said on Tuesday, adding that he was against the head of the army running for the presidency. A year of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel, which culminated in Leggi tutto…
MAIDUGURI: A gang of gunmen kidnapped more than 50 women and children in a raid on Kakin Dawa village in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state, police and residents said. Kidnapping for ransom by gunmen, known by locals as bandits, is rife in northwest Nigeria due to high levels of poverty, unemployment Leggi tutto…
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s industrial production index rose by 5 percent year on year in October, driven by robust growth across key economic sectors, official data showed. According to figures from the General Authority for Statistics, the index also edged up 0.4 percent month on month, reaching 106.9 points. The mining and Leggi tutto…
NAIROBI: South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has fired the head of the country’s military, the police chief and the central bank governor, an announcement made on the state-owned broadcaster SSBC said. Kiir’s announcement late on Monday gave no reasons for the dismissals. It said Kiir had appointed Paul Nang Majok Leggi tutto…
Port Sudan: A Sudanese military air strike on a market in a town in North Darfur killed more than 100 people and wounded hundreds on Monday, a pro-democracy lawyers’ group said Tuesday. “The air strike took place on the town’s weekly market day, where residents from various nearby villages had Leggi tutto…