RIYADH: Middle East stock markets continued to recover after “Black Monday”, when global indexes fell on worries about a potential US recession triggered by a weak jobs report from the world's biggest economy. Saudi Arabia's Tadawul All Share Index closed at 11,729.71, up 50.55 points, or 0.43 percent, on Wednesday. Total trading turnover for the … Read more
BEIRUT: Two people were killed – one a civilian and the other, the Israeli army said, the head of Iran-backed Hezbollah's anti-tank missile unit – and seven others were wounded on Wednesday in renewed Israeli hostilities in several towns in southern Lebanon. An Israeli drone targeted a motorcycle in the town of Jouaiyya at noon, … Read more
CAIRO: Egypt's annual urban consumer price inflation fell to 25.7 percent in July from 27.5 percent in June, a faster rate of decline than analysts had predicted, the country's statistics agency CAPMAS showed on Thursday. Month on month, prices fell by 0.4 percent in July, down from 1.6 percent in June. Food prices fell 0.3 … Read more
Baghdad: Rights advocates are concerned about a bill submitted to Iraq's parliament that they fear would roll back women's rights and increase child marriage in the deeply patriarchal society. The bill would allow citizens to choose either religious authorities or the civil judiciary to decide family matters. Critics fear this will lead to a curtailment … Read more
Boeing's Starliner astronauts could return on SpaceX capsule in February 2025, NASA says WASHINGTON: NASA officials said Wednesday that the two astronauts delivered to the International Space Station in June by Boeing's Starliner may return on SpaceX's Crew Dragon in February 2025 if the Starliner is still deemed unsafe to return to Earth.The US space … Read more
EAU CLAIRE, Wis.: Leaders of the Arab American community and key labor unions in America's Midwest said Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris made the right choice in choosing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate in the November election. Some Democratic party leaders in Michigan had grown concerned that choosing the wrong candidate … Read more
Strictly speaking, it is only the much-maligned The Hundred that the knife is applied to, but the domestic repercussions are likely to be profound. In mid-May, I suggested that a crossroads had been reached by the shorter and longer formats. Since then, events have moved on, accelerated by the upstart Hundred tournament in just its … Read more
WASHINGTON: Hunter Biden was hired by a Romanian businessman accused of corruption who tried to “influence US government policy” during Joe Biden's term as vice president, prosecutors said in court papers on Wednesday. Special counsel David Weiss said Hunter Biden's business partner will testify at the upcoming federal tax trial against the president's son about … Read more
Arab American community, key union encouraged by Harris' choice of Walz as candidate EAU CLAIRE, Wis.: Leaders of the Arab American community and key labor unions in America's Midwest said Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris made the right choice in choosing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate in the November election. Some … Read more
BEIRUT: Two people were killed – one a civilian and the other, the Israeli army said, the head of Iran-backed Hezbollah's anti-tank missile unit – and seven others were wounded on Wednesday in renewed Israeli hostilities in several towns in southern Lebanon. An Israeli drone targeted a motorcycle in the town of Jouaiyya at noon, … Read more
