WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden will deliver his final speech in the Oval Office on Wednesday to explain why he has given up on the November election, denying he will spend six months as a lame duck. With the world already watching the looming showdown between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, Biden will … Read more
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that Israeli athletes were “welcome” at the Paris Olympics, rejecting calls for a boycott by some left-wing French lawmakers and the Palestinian Olympic Committee. “Israeli athletes are welcome in our country. They must be able to compete under their colors because the Olympic movement decided that,” he … Read more
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that Israeli athletes were “welcome” at the Paris Olympics, rejecting calls for a boycott by some left-wing French lawmakers and the Palestinian Olympic Committee. “Israeli athletes are welcome in our country. They must be able to compete under their colors because the Olympic movement decided that,” he … Read more
N'DJAMENA: Chad repatriated 157 of its citizens who were detained in neighboring Libya on Tuesday in cooperation with the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Libyan state, its foreign ministry said in a statement. Chadian citizens were flown back to the Sahel country on a special flight, the statement said.
LONDON: The Israeli military has killed dozens of Palestinian civilians and injured hundreds of others, including children, in its relentless pursuit of Hamas commanders in Gaza, despite designating many of its operational areas as “safe zones”. Palestinian medics said Monday that 16 civilians were killed in the eastern part of Khan Younis under Israeli shelling, … Read more
TUNIS: More than half of Tunisia's mostly sub-Saharan migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are currently living in “inadequate conditions”, a domestic human rights group said on Tuesday. In its latest study on migration, the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights (FTDES) found that “more than half” of migrants in Tunisia lived “on the street, … Read more
An Australian couple have issued a warning after a horror experience with scammers caused them to lose their life savings.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, in a meeting with his country's counterpart Hussein Awad on Tuesday, promised that his country would continue to support Sudan's stability and security. Abdelatty said Egypt would spare no effort to help its “Sudanese brothers overcome the political, security and humanitarian challenges arising from the ongoing war” in the country. … Read more
MILWAUKEE: Vice President Kamala Harris attacked Donald Trump on Tuesday at her first campaign rally since replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee, while a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed her narrowly ahead of Trump, the Republican nominee.“I promise you that I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week in … Read more
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia became the top issuer in the Gulf Cooperation Council bond market during the first half of 2024, raising $37 billion through 44 issues, according to recent data. The Markaz GCC Bonds and Sukuk Market Report said the figure represented a 12.5 percent increase over the same period last year, accounting for 49 … Read more
