The United Arab Emirates has eased a ban on the shipping of goods between it and Qatar enforced under a political and economic boycott of Doha, according to port circulars and an industry source.
The UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain severed (...)
We have previously spoken, in this column, of the fissures that are cleaving Europe and the Western camp in general. It would take too long to explain them all, especially given that they are multiplying and deepening and, moreover, spreading from (...)
US President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union address last Tuesday, 5 February, almost a week after it was originally scheduled.
The postponement was due to the shutdown of the federal government, unprecedented in its duration. (...)
Among the world's most unstable regions, none is faced with more serious geopolitical risks than the long arc stretching from the Maghreb to the Arabian Gulf.
For decades the Middle East has experienced upheavals that will change the face of the (...)
We have previously spoken, in this column, of the fissures that are cleaving Europe and the Western camp in general. It would take too long to explain them all, especially given that they are multiplying and deepening and, moreover, spreading from (...)
The Mideast conference in Poland starting Wednesday offers Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an opportunity to flaunt in public what he has long boasted about happening behind the scenes _ his country's improved relations with some Gulf Arab (...)
When news emerged that Qatar may have unwittingly helped bail out a New York skyscraper owned by the family of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, eyebrows were raised in Doha.
Kushner, a senior White House adviser, was a close ally of Saudi (...)
Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, said that Arab region has yet to fully recover from the global financial crisis and other big economic dislocations over the past decade.
"Among oil importers, growth has (...)
US President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union address last Tuesday, 5 February, almost a week after it was originally scheduled. The postponement was due to the shutdown of the federal government, unprecedented in its duration. (...)
FIFA president Gianni Infantino will not face a challenger in June's elections to the head of world soccer's governing body, the organisation said on Wednesday.
"Following the call for election issued by the FIFA Council on 10 June 2018, FIFA's (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shoukry, met with King Abdullah II Bin Al-Hussein, the King of Jordan, on Wednesday during his visit to Amman in order to participate in a meeting of a number of his Arab counterparts.
According to a (...)
* سينيبولس مجموعة السينما الرائدة عالميًا والمشغلة لصالات السينما في القارتين الأمريكيتين والولايات المتحدة وأوروبا والهند تفتتح صالة جديدة في أتريوم مول، سار يوم 31 يناير 2019.
* يقدم المجمع السينمائي الجديد خدماته للضيوف في البحرين والمملكة (...)
Attempting to overcome the toughest test in his three-decade rule, Sudan President Omar Al-Bashir flew to a number of Arab states, starting with Qatar and Egypt, to gather support for his regime, threatened amid protests in Sudan that have continued (...)
During his latest visit to the Middle East early in January, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he will ask from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to ensure that the killers of journalist Jamal Khashoggi are held accountable for their (...)
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a return to “unity and harmony” on Thursday as he welcomed gas-rich Qatar's emir to Beijing, amid a festering dispute that has seen some Arab states lead by Saudi Arabia severing relations with Doha.
Saudi (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi discussed bilateral relations and mutual cooperation between Egypt and Sudan with his Sudanese counterpart Omar Al-Bashir on Sunday in Cairo in Al-Bashir's second foreign trip since the beginning of demonstrations in (...)
Soccer activists campaigning for the release of a Bahraini refugee player detained in Thailand say his plight has become an emergency.
Former Australia captain Craig Foster says Bahrain has formally submitted an extradition request to Thailand for (...)
Davos- The best method to begin an Arabic active role in resolving the Syrian crisis is through holding a meeting for the Arab countries in order to discuss the Syrian matter, and to reach an agreement on the best method of action, either through a (...)
The International Olympic Committee has backed FIFA's calls for a Bahraini soccer player to be allowed to return to Australia from Thailand where he is detention while being pursued for extradition by Bahrain.
But Asian soccer's leadership is (...)
The Asian Football Confederation said on Saturday that President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa had had no influence on their handling of the case of a Bahraini player arrested in Thailand in November over a prison sentence in his (...)
FIFA has written to the Thai prime minister calling for the release of a Bahraini refugee soccer player who is in detention while embroiled in an extradition case.
Australia granted Hakeem al-Araibi asylum in 2017, but Bahrain wants its former (...)
Squads from the Egyptian naval and air troops have arrived on Saturday in Bahrain to take part in the Hamad 3 exercise with Bahraini troops, the Egyptian military said in a statement.
The statement added that the exercise would take place at the (...)
The Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) revealed on Sunday that Brazil imported $7.6bn worth of goods from the Arab region in 2018, compared to $6.4bn in 2017, recording a year-over-year (y-o-y) growth of 18%. It brought the total Brazilian (...)
Qatar's ruler has arrived in Beirut to attend an Arab economic summit marred by divisions over readmitting Syria to the Arab League.
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani's government has been one of the main backers of Syrian insurgents trying to (...)
During a regional tour that took him to nine Arab countries in a little over a week, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lobbied for support for Washington's plans to make the region increasingly uncomfortable for Tehran.
On 7 January Pompeo arrived (...)
