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DUBAI: Three suspects have been detained over their purported responsibility for the death of a Lebanese boy who suffered a heart attack when he saw horror scenes being filmed for TikTok. Mohamed Haydar Istanbuli, 6, was reported to have been playing in his neighborhood in Lebanon’s coastal city of Tyre near the Roman ruins when he saw two girls dressed in black and carrying

DUBAI: Syria’s embattled President Bashar Assad received an invitation to attend the upcoming COP28 climate talks in Dubai later this year, even as the yearslong war in his country over his rule grinds on. Assad’s invite, late on Monday, to the climate talks comes as the Syrian president already is scheduled to attend the Arab League summit this Friday in Jeddah, years after

NEW YORK: Global economic growth is projected to be 2.3 percent in 2023, up 0.4 percentage points from a January forecast, and the prediction for 2024 has dropped 0.2 percentage points to 2.5 percent, according to a UN report released on Tuesday. “Despite this uptick, the growth rate is still well below the average growth rate in the two decades before the pandemic of 3.1

RIYADH: The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority, in cooperation with global technology company Nvidia, on Tuesday inaugurated the Center of Excellence for Generative Artificial Intelligence. The authority also launched a beta version of its AI chat application, Allam, which supports the use of the Arabic language and is described as the first of its kind in the

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index slipped 24.18 points, or 0.22 percent, to close at 11,206.02 on Tuesday as 111 of the 224 stocks rose, while 95 declined. Stocks listed on the Pharma, Biotech, & Life Science index soared the most, with a 9.28 percent climb, while the stocks of the Energy and the Telecommunication sectors fell 1.96 and 1 percent, respectively.

RIYADH: A Saudi team of 35 students is competing at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in Dallas, US, from May 12-19. The team is taking part through the support of the King Abdullah and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) and the Saudi Ministry of Education. About 1,800 students from 70 countries are competing in the fair,

RIYADH: Meet Capt. Afrah Al-Harbi, a 22-year-old AlUla native, who has piloted hot-air balloons 55 times in Saudi Arabia, after becoming the first Saudi woman to obtain a license to navigate these aircraft. Al-Harbi was trained by the Saudi Arabian Hot-Air Ballooning Federation while pursuing an education in Hotels and Tourism at Taibah University in AlUla. Hot-air balloon

RIYADH: Senior officials and delegates attended a meeting on Tuesday to prepare for the upcoming Arab League summit that will be hosted in Jeddah on May 19. Undersecretary of the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs for multilateral affairs Abdul Rahman Al-Rasi chaired the meeting and thanked Algeria for its efforts during 2022 when it held the Arab League presidency. Al-Rasi

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s financial market led its counterparts in other G20 countries in 2022 in terms of shareholders’ rights and stock market capitalization as a percentage of gross domestic product, according to the Capital Market Authority. The shareholder’s rights as a percentage of GDP give a sense of the influence that they have on the economy, while the stock market

In an open letter, a dozen organisations say kingdom's human rights record 'flies in the face' of spirit of global expo and would be used for whitewashing