Omar al-Bashir’s lawyer stated that the former Sudanese president, currently imprisoned, needs to go abroad for medical tests unavailable in Sudan. He is currently in the Aliaa Specialist Military Hospital due to health issues.

RIYADH: Tawakkalna, Saudi Arabia’s national super app, has expanded its digital efforts to integrate services that impact the daily lives of more than 36 million citizens, residents and visitors in Saudi Arabia. The app was developed by the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority to provide...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye will convene the top committee of their joint defense pact in Riyadh next week to review a surge in Houthi attacks on the Kingdom, Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Friday. The meeting of the Strategic Political Defe...

SWEIDA: Young people in Syria’s Sweida province are unable to progress through school and university due to a deepening rift between the post-Assad Islamist government and the Israel-aligned Druze leaders of the last area outside central control. Their dilemma reflects deep trauma and lingering inst...

A study from Leiden University, commissioned by King Willem-Alexander, revealed that the Dutch royal family profited significantly from colonialism and slavery over several centuries.

On Oct. 3, Germany celebrates the Day of German Unity — a day that reminds us of the power of freedom, dialogue and the determination of people to shape their own future. German Unity Day commemorates the reunification of Germany in 1990 following decades of division. It stands for the peaceful over...

MUMBAI/DELHI: Hundreds of supporters of the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party protested in India’s financial capital Mumbai on Friday, kicking off a new nationwide campaign against changes to voter rolls they say benefit Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing party. The demonstration marks the lates...

Roberto Mancini, former Manchester City manager, stated he is not concerned about his association with the club’s financial scandal, as City appeals the verdict.

“Rise to see, not to be seen.” I came across these words two years ago. They were simple enough to remember, yet profound enough to remain, and since then, I have found myself returning to them whenever responsibilities have grown, positions have changed, or the distance between a person and those a...

G7 nations plan to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products to address record-high prices, especially focusing on diesel. The move comes as the U.S. faces political pressure over rising costs and export restrictions are ruled out.

LONDON: Israeli forces detained one resident and briefly held another during an overnight raid on a village in southern Syria, according to Syrian state media. Twelve Israeli military vehicles entered Maariya, a village in the Yarmouk Basin of western Daraa province, through the northern entrance kn...

LONDON: As children in the Gaza Strip return to school after nearly three years of disruption, they are also turning up at artist Maysa Yousef’s door with their plain, light-blue backpacks, distributed by aid agencies, and specific requests for decoration: a rocket ship, perhaps, or a princess, a ho...