Page 23 - Khalij News Today

Saturday, 3 April, 2021 - 10:00 A woman sitting on a bed at the emergency ward of a hospital in Taiz, Yemen. Photo by: REUTERS / Anees Mahyoub Sanaa – Asharq Al-Awsat Over the last few years, tens of thousands of Yemenis living in insurgency-held areas have been infected by pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) as health centers struggle with being deprived of key resources snatched away by Houthi militia leaders. Patients with active ...

Saturday, 3 April, 2021 - 08:00 Photo of the document that is allegedly written by late Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat. Asharq Al-Awsat Former Israeli Security Minister Naftali Bennett revealed a document in Arabic, allegedly written by late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, indicating the place of burial of three Israeli soldiers killed in the battle of Sultan Yaqoub in the Lebanese Bekaa, during the first Israeli war on Le...

Saturday, 3 April, 2021 - 04:45 In a photo taken 10/22/17, near Malaga, Spain, a meteor is seen streaking past the constellation Canis Minor during the annual Orionid meteor showers. (Reuters) London - Asharq Al-Awsat Research led by a Kent-based space scientist has uncovered new evidence of meteor particles reaching the Antarctic ice sheet 430,000 years ago. The team said the findings highlight the importance of reassessing the ...

A If the February US jobs report signaled that America is truly rounding the final corner on the Covid-19 pandemic, then after a month of ramped up vaccinations and warmer weather, the latest data suggest that the world’s largest economy is now in an all-out sprint to herd immunity and a full reopening. US employers added 916,000 jobs in March, easily beating the 660,000 gain projected by economists in a Bloomberg survey and surpassing even the more optimistic crowd-sourced “whisper nu...

Saturday, 3 April, 2021 - 06:00 Pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Partys (HDP) Turkish MP Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu holds a press conference. (File/AFP) Asharq Al-Awsat Turkish police on Friday detained a former lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the party said, after his parliamentary status was revoked last month due to a finalized sentence against him on terrorism charges. Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a hu...

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

Saturday, 3 April, 2021 - 16:45 Experts are predicting significant recovery for Hajj and Umrah businesses during Ramadan 2021, Asharq Al-Awsat Jeddah - Saeed al-Abyad A little over a year after the coronavirus pandemic having hit markets around the world, signs of recovery are on the horizon for pilgrimage-centered economies in the Saudi cities of Makkah and Medina. Experts are predicting a 40% recovery for Hajj and Umrah bus...

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

Saturday, 3 April, 2021 - 06:00 Washington - Elie Youssef The US Report on Human Rights Practices in Iran has reflected a remarkable interest by the Biden administration in a number of issues, mainly how the clerical establishment in Tehran controls all political, economic and social aspects of life. Released by the US Department of State on Tuesday, the report began by describing Iran as an authoritarian theocratic republic where...

Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities