London: The UN has suspended the voting rights of Iran and four other countries over delinquent dues a move that has provoked fury from Tehran.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a letter to the president of the General Assembly that Iran had breached the delinquency threshold under Article 19 of the UN Charter.
The article states that any member owing the previous two years’ assessments may not vote in the General Assembly.
The Central African Republic, Comoros, Somalia, and Sao Tome and Principe also lost their voting rights over payment issues. In 2020, Venezuela, Yemen and Lebanon temporarily lost theirs for the same reason.
As Egyptian engineers enter Gaza to remove the rubble and rebuild what was destroyed in the recent devastating 11-day war, it is important to take note of the lessons that have been learned this time around. The first lesson is a realization that despite massive investment in the Israeli image in terms of time, money and effort, the surprising reality to many of us is that the
SAO PAULO: Palestinian communities in Latin America and their supporters have organized protests in major cities across the region in response to last month’s Israeli attacks on Gaza. “The attacks were very painful for us,” Jaime Abedrapo, a Palestinian-Chilean political scientist, told Arab News. “We have relatives and friends living there, and we know that those strikes have
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Muscat: The price of Oman oil witnessed an increase by 24 cents, Oman News Agency (ONA), announced.
A statement issued online by the ONA said: The official price of Oman oil on Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME), for next August delivery reached $ 70.38.
The price witnessed an increase of 24 cents compared to Thursday s price of $70.14 on DME.
ONA added: It should be noted that the monthly average price of Omani crude oil for a month of June delivery reached 63.10 US dollars per barrel, down by 33 (R1) US dollars compared to the delivery price of last May.
LONDON: Mogadishu, Florence, Tuscany, Sardinia, Minneapolis. Somali artist Abdiaziz (Aziz) Osman has called all these places home. In terms of the mastery and execution of his art it is his years spent in Italy, he says, that proved most influential, while in terms of subject matter it is his homeland of Somalia. When he spoke to Arab News from his home in Minneapolis, a