FIFA extended the smaller Club World Cup format for one more year Friday after a 24-team revamp scheduled for China in June 2021 was delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Japan was chosen to host a traditional, seven-team Club World Cup in (...)
Kuwait's foreign minister said on Friday that progress had been made towards ending a Gulf row that has seen Saudi Arabia and its allies boycott Qatar for over three years while his Qatari counterpart voiced optimism a resolution could be (...)
Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Friday that he hoped Kuwaiti and U.S. efforts to resolve a dispute among Gulf nations would end in success, thanking both countries for "bringing points of view closer together".
Kuwait said earlier on Friday (...)
Qatar's foreign minister said on Friday there has been movement on resolving a bitter diplomatic dispute among the Gulf countries but he could not predict whether a breakthrough was imminent or would fully resolve the matter.
The United States and (...)
Guangzhou Evergrande's hopes of winning the Asian Champions League have suffered a serious blow with veteran defender Zhang Linpeng ruled out of the rest of the competition after undergoing surgery on an injured ankle.
The 31-year-old China (...)
The African Football Association (CAF) has decided that the Total African Super Cup game between Morocco's Renaissance Berkane, the winners of the Confederation Cup, and Egypt's Ahly, the winner of the Champions League, will be played in Egypt on 10 (...)
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his team are headed to Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week for talks in a region simmering with tension after the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist.
A senior administration official said on Sunday that (...)
After beating Togo in two games in the 2022 African Cup of Nations Cup qualifiers in mid-November, Egypt national football team jumped three places to be 49th on FIFA's November rankings released on Friday.
Egypt moved level on top of Group G with (...)
Saudi Arabia had a foreign-policy triumph this week when it hosted this year's G20 Summit meeting at the weekend, with Saudi officials being given a global media platform to explain the country's foreign policy and domestic reform agenda.
There was (...)
The six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have recorded more than 1 million cases of infection with COVID-19, according to a Reuters tally of data published by each government.
The tally in the energy producing region of more than 50 (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday defended his tour of Gulf Arab states and the Trump administration's continued efforts to squeeze Iran, even as a new U.S. administration led by Joe Biden prepares to enter the White House in (...)
RATP Dev, part of the world-leading public transport operator RATP Group announced that it will participate as a Silver Sponsor in TransMEA 2020 exhibition.
The TransMEA 2020 exhibition is being held on November 22-25 in Cairo, under the auspices of (...)
The global pandemic and ensuing lockdown have taken their toll on the mental and physical well-being of millions of kids in the Middle East and North Africa, the UN children's agency said Friday.
In a survey of more than 7,000 households in seven (...)
Two more members of South Korea's national football team have tested positive for COVID-19 taking the tally to 10, the Korea Football Association (KFA) said.
RB Leipzig striker Hwang Hee-chan and a staff member tested positive following Tuesday's (...)
After four people were killed and 23 injured in a terrorist attack in Vienna on 2 November Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz urged fellow European leaders to form a common front against what he called “political Islam”.
“I expect an end to the (...)
Egypt moved a step closer to securing their berth at the African Cup of Nations after beating Togo 3-1 in Lome on Tuesday, but coach Hossam El-Badry already has his eyes set on a bigger target.
The Pharaohs moved joint top with Comoros in their (...)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed "global challenges'' with a handful of members of a Paris think tank Saturday at the start of a seven-country tour of Europe and the Middle East, travels that were certain to be awkward since all the (...)
Paris St Germain striker Neymar has been ruled out of Brazil's World Cup qualifier against Uruguay next week in Montevideo.
The forward arrived in Brazil with a leg injury and although he was certain to miss Friday's game against Venezuela in Sao (...)
A bomb attached to the vehicle of a radio journalist in southern Afghanistan exploded early Thursday, killing him, a provincial official said.
Omer Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor in southern Helmand province, said a sticky bomb attached (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi was among the first Arab leaders to congratulate Joe Biden on his election as US president. In a statement issued on 7 November Al-Sisi said he looked forward to working with the president-elect to boost strategic (...)
The reaction of the Arab Gulf states to the announcement of Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden as president-elect of the United States following last week's US presidential elections has been similar to the reaction of the markets to the (...)
أعلن نادي قطر القطري تعاقده بشكل رسمي مع النجم الجزائري يوسف البلايلي في صفقة انتقال حر.
وفسخ البلايلي عقده مع أهلي جدة السعودي، قبل أن يتمم انتقاله إلى الدوري القطري.
ولم يُعلن النادي القطري تفاصيل الصفقة، ولكن بعض التقارير الصحفية أشارت إلى أن (...)
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday announced reforms that will abolish some key restrictions tying millions of low-paid and vulnerable migrant workers to their employers.
The Ministry of Human Resource and Social Development said the reforms will allow (...)
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday announced reforms that will abolish some key restrictions tying millions of low-paid and vulnerable migrant workers to their employers.
The Ministry of Human Resource and Social Development said the reforms will allow (...)
With all the confusion in its domestic politics, the great divisions in its society, the Covid-19 disaster and the deteriorating domestic economic situation, the urgent question for the rest of the world is whether the United States, in a second (...)
