ISTANBUL: Turkish prosecutors are seeking a jail sentence of up to four years for the mayor of Istanbul, who is accused of having insulted public officials, local media reported Friday. Ekrem Imamoglu of the main opposition party has been mayor since 2019, when he pulled off a major upset in local elections. It was the first time in 25 years that the opposition had won against
UN unifies voice around rights of Palestinians, Arab News correspondent reports
Saudi Arabia FM expresses concern from Arab world countries and says Israel’s actions were in violation of the UN charter
Focus of the UN meeting was on how the conflict started, not just on the rocket fire between Israel and Hamas
Updated 28 May 2021
May 28, 2021 09:00
CHICAGO: The UN held unprecedented unified sessions this week to address Israel’s violence against Palestinian civilians and Hamas intervention in the conflict, Ephrem Kossaify, the UN correspondent for Arab News, reported Wednesday.
Kossaify, whose reporting at the UN was cited by the prestigious Middle East Policy Council in an analysis of the conflict, explained that the Arab world and member nations were unified in condemning violence on both sides of the conflict.
BEIRUT: Syria’s President Bashar Assad has won a fourth term in office with 95 percent of the vote in a ballot dismissed abroad as a “farce.” With the conflict mostly on hold but his country’s economy in ruins, what are Assad’s priorities likely to be when he kicks off his first post-war mandate? 95.1 percent. That’s the percentage of the vote official results say Assad won in
Defeat by climate activists signals twilight for Big Oil
Shareholders, campaign groups and now the courts are piling pressure on the lumbering oil titans to go green
28 May 2021 • 6:00am
Ooof. It’s hard to imagine that the oil industry has ever suffered a more bruising week than this. There have, of course, been numerous disasters and setbacks down the years but this was something else, something altogether more existential.
On Wednesday, Chevron shareholders voted in favour of a proposal put forward by Dutch campaign group Follow This to force the company to cut its carbon emissions, while a Hague court ordered Royal Dutch Shell to cut emissions by nearly half by the end of the decade (it plans to appeal), setting a legal precedent for meddling in corporate strategy.