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KARACHI: Baseball United, the first professional baseball league serving the Middle East, India and Pakistan, has announced the award of its second franchise to Karachi. The new franchise, and first professional baseball team in Pakistan’s history, will compete against Baseball United’s recently announced team from India, the Mumbai Cobras. The new team is called the Karachi

As many pundits expected, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won a historic third term as he overcame his opponent in Turkiye’s presidential runoff on Sunday. His triumph, after a tough first round, is being celebrated by his supporters both at home and abroad, but at 69 the populist Islamist leader, who has ruled for two decades, has plenty to contend with as he begins a new

The China-brokered agreement in March to restore diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran caught the entire planet by surprise — not only because of its implications for Middle Eastern realignments but also because of Beijing’s conspicuous midwife role, with states such as the US scarcely even aware of the magnitude of what was transpiring. It was an unmistakable signal

The world economy is in a precarious position. In tandem with the impact of COVID-19, rising interest rates have compelled many countries to declare that they face the possibility of a protracted and arduous recession. Yet, in Saudi Arabia, the economic climate is comparatively brighter. Elevated energy prices and an increase in tourism resulting from major global events have

LONDON: Everton emerged from a nerve-shredding afternoon with their Premier League status intact thanks to a 1-0 victory over Bournemouth at Goodison Park as Leicester City and Leeds United were relegated in a dramatic season finale on Sunday. The Merseyside club’s 69-year stay in the top flight was in peril at halftime as they were drawing 0-0 and 2016 champions Leicester

MONACO: Formula One champion Max Verstappen’s lights-to-flag victory at the Monaco Grand gave the Red Bull driver his fourth victory of the season and a record 39th overall for the team as he extended his championship lead to 39 points over teammate Sergio Perez on Sunday. Verstappen’s wins have all been with Red Bull since his first on debut for the team at the Spanish GP in

Following a series of unforeseen technical glitches that resulted in minor delays, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is deemed a pinnacle of leadership and representative of his constituents, last week took to the magnificent realm of Twitter’s auditory platform alongside the highly regarded and illustrious tycoon and astute investor Elon Musk and tech investor David Sacks. With

RIYADH: One of Saudi Arabia’s goals is to be among the top 15 nations globally in terms of gross domestic product, and the Kingdom is well on its way to achieving it, said Khalid Al-Falih, minister of investment and chairman of the Economic Cities and Special Zones Authority. “We went from the 20th before the launch of the Saudi Vision 2030 to the 17th (spot) by the end of

RIYADH: The aggregate profit of banks operating in Saudi Arabia increased by 3.4 percent year on year in April to reach SR5.78 billion ($1.55 billion), according to the latest figures released by the Saudi Central Bank, also known as SAMA. The report, however, noted that the aggregate profits of Saudi banks fell by SR1.65 billion month on month in April. In March, banks in

LONDON: A pregnant woman who was shot, escaped an overturned car and walked for hours from Khartoum to reach the Egyptian border has given birth to a “miracle” baby, The Guardian reported on Sunday. The 25-year-old woman and her husband are Eritrean refugees. Her husband was given refugee status in the UK, and applied to the Home Office for a refugee family reunion visa in