Thinking of taking your pet cheetah for a stroll? You could face an $8 million fine
Updated 11 min 45 sec ago
Rawan Radwan
May 23, 2021 00:39
JEDDAH: Whatever happened to taking your children to a pet shop to buy a small fish or canary as a pet? It seems those days are over, with a video of a young girl in Saudi Arabia taking her pet cheetah for a stroll.
The footage, which shows a girl aged about 10 struggling to control the big cat after letting it out of a car, sparked outrage and calls for action on social media.
To add to the confusion, the pet’s owner deliberately shared the video in defiance of National Center for Wildlife warnings against keeping wild animals, often referred to as exotic pets.
RIYADH: Saudi developer Dar Al Arkan said first quarter net income more than doubled as it boosted margins on property sales. Net income jumped by almost 130 percent to SR28.5 million ($7.6 million) compared to a year earlier, the company said in a stock exchange filing on Sunday. Overall sales dipped by about 6.4 percent to SR554.8 million. Despite a drop in leasing revenue
The commodity sector traded lower for a second week and, following the April surge, the market was increasingly at risk of a correction. The setback was led by the oil sector. which traded lower in anticipation of increased supplies from Iran, given progress on lifting sanctions, Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Denmark s Saxo Bank.
Talks between the US and Iran, which have been ongoing for weeks, hit a stumbling block on Sunday after Iran s parliament speaker said that international inspectors may no longer access surveillance images of the country’s nuclear sites after a deadline to agree a new deal was not met.
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates stands ready to facilitate peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians, the UAE state news agency reported on Sunday, citing Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al-Nayhan.
Sheikh Mohamed’s comments came in a telephone call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, expressing support for Egypt’s efforts to bolster a cease-fire agreed by Israel and the Palestinians after 11 days of fighting.
The UAE, which last year signed an agreement to normalize relations with Israel, “is ready to work with all parties to preserve the cease-fire and find new ways to reduce escalation and achieve peace,” the news agency quoted Sheikh Mohammed as saying.
NEW DELHI: Doctors in India are fighting a fatal fungal infection affecting COVID-19 patients or those who have recovered from the disease amid a coronavirus surge that has driven the country’s fatalities to nearly 300,000. The life-threatening condition, known as mucormycosis, is relatively rare but doctors suspect that the sudden increase in the infection could further