Iran has rejected as "unrealistic" a call by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for the United Nations to extend an international arms embargo on Tehran that ends in October, state TV reported on Monday.
The GCC, made up of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, (...)
Countries and international organisations are sending help to Lebanon after a massive explosion in Beirut killed at least 158 people and injured 6,000.
Below are details of some of the assistance offered.
ARMENIA - A plane carrying medical supplies (...)
A six-nation bloc of Gulf Arab nations endorsed an extension of a United Nations arms embargo on Iran, just two months before it is set to expire.
The Gulf Cooperation Council on Sunday sent a letter to the U.N. Security Council backing an (...)
The U.S. State Department and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention on Thursday lifted global advisories recommending U.S. citizens avoid all international travel because of the coronavirus pandemic, and instead issued a raft of (...)
A media spat between Turkey and the UAE this week revealed the tense situation that now prevails between the NATO member and most of the Arab Gulf countries.
Since the UAE and Saudi Arabia stepped up their support for ally Egypt in its stand against (...)
كانت البداية حين زعم السياسي التركي إبراهيم كارغول، المقرب من أردوغان فى 28-7-2020 أن تركيا عقدت اتفاقية مع السلطنة لإقامة قاعدة عسكرية. وأضاف كارغول، في تغريدة له عبر موقع تويتر: "إنّ أردوغان نجح في عقليته الجوبلوتكيه لإحكام سيطرته على المنطقة، (...)
The value of real estate activity exchange in Oman stood at OMR1.05 billion at the end of June 2020 from OMR1.24 billion last year, according to statistics released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information on Monday.
Fees collected from (...)
The US continues to push for an end of the four-nation boycott of Qatar, even after the hospitalization of Kuwait's ruling emir who led talks to resolve the yearslong dispute, a US diplomat said Sunday.
US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook (...)
Almost 40 countries have reported record single-day increases in coronavirus infections over the past week, around double the number that did so the previous week, according to a Reuters tally showing a pick-up in the pandemic in every region of the (...)
People arriving from 16 countries outside the European Union where the infection rate of COVID-19 is deemed to be high will be subject to compulsory testing on arrival at French airports and sea ports, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on (...)
Oman will ban travel between all its governorates from July 25 to Aug. 8, a period that includes a Muslim holiday, to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, state news agency ONA said on Tuesday.
A statement from the Health Ministry described (...)
Pakistan on Thursday validated licenses of 166 pilots working in foreign countries amid a scandal involving "dubious" flying certificates, which caused a global alert.
Pakistan's civil aviation ministry grounded 262 pilots for "dubious" (...)
The United States and six Gulf countries on Wednesday imposed sanctions on six targets Washington has accused of supporting Islamic State operations, including by funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to leaders of the group in Iraq and (...)
Oman will start allowing its citizens to fly outside the country, but they must apply with authorities to do so and quarantine upon their return, state television reported on Tuesday.
Oman TV also said on its Twitter account that the Gulf Arab state (...)
Egypt remains the most active venture capital market in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the first half (H1) of 2020, MAGNiTT, MENA's most comprehensive startup data platform, has announced.
According to MAGNiTT's H1 2020 MENA (...)
The provision of tertiary healthcare facilities in the Middle East in case of emergencies will further boost traveller confidence, according to Colliers International.
The international real estate services company added that a rise in medical (...)
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has further downgraded its projections for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's economic growth to -5.7% in 2020 due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
This represents a 2.4 percentage (...)
Egypt is top of the Arab countries for developing nuclear programme, whether through supporting its nuclear research centre, in the nuclear medicine field or through establishing El Dabaa nuclear power plant to generate clean, affordable, and (...)
Italy on Thursday banned entry to people coming from 13 countries that it said presented an excessive rate of COVID-19 infections.
The list compiled by the health ministry comprises Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, (...)
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Oman exceeded 50,000 on Wednesday, the Health Ministry said.
The country reported another 1,210 new cases of the coronavirus and nine deaths in the last 24 hours, to take its total count to 50,207 cases (...)
Ordinary Iranians did not need to hear it, but nonetheless top Iranian officials stated the obvious many times in the last few days: this year has been the toughest so far on Iranians.
The economic situation is getting worse and coronavirus (...)
Total construction output in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is expected to witness a big slump for the rest of this year and the sector is expected to face headwinds in 2021 with a slow recovery, GlobalData, a leading data and (...)
كشف المحامي العماني صلاح المقبالي عن واقعة صادمة ضحيتها فتاة تم استدراجها من قبل شاب من خلال موقع إنستجرام.
وأضاف المقبالي على حسابه في توتير: ذئب بشري اصطاد ضحيته ، التي تقل عن 15 سنة، من إحدى مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي.
وتابع المحامي العماني في حديثه (...)
Oman's construction and infrastructure sector is fuelling the growth of investments in new reinforced steel bar manufacturing capacity, particularly in the south of the Sultanate.
At Raysut Industrial City – an industrial park administered by (...)
The Gulf states' economies could shrink by 7.6 percent this year in their deepest fall in decades, as the coronavirus and low oil prices weigh in, a top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said on Tuesday.
The new projection for the (...)
