Gulf

The President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a cable of condolences to Felipe VI, King of Spain, for the victims of the terrorist attack that took place in Barcelona on Thursday, which killed and injured ...

A 29-year-old Pakistani salesman has been charged in the Court of First Instance for stealing Dh550,000 from his workplace. The case dates back to July 15 when a Chinese businessman, owner of a digital products trading firm, reported to Naif ...

RIYADH: So far 54 Muslim pilgrims died before the annual Hajj pilgrimage begins in Saudi Arabia, Anadolu Agency reported. And in one day i.e; on late Sunday of August, 13, at least thirty one (31) people have lost their lives, ...

Riyadh: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Republic of Iraq decided to reopen Arar border crossing for trade. This border crossing was closed after Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. According to the news published in Khaleej Times, on Monday, Saudi ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Authorities say a U.S. fighter jet has crash landed at Bahrain International Airport, disrupting flights to and from the island nation. Social media pictures of the aircraft showed the grey fighter jet’s nose tipped into ...

Around 158kg of cannabis (hashish) and Captagon tablets worth Dh2.7 million were seized from drug traffickers during the first half of this year in joint operations carried out by the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman. In all, 12 drug dealers ...

Manama: As the Arabian Gulf continues to swelter amid a string of unbearably hot months, Bahrain broke a record that had stood for 115 years for the hottest month of July. The average maximum temperature for July was 42.1 degrees ...

A man suspected of being part of a drug trafficking organization targeted in near-simultaneous raids in Dubai, Australia and the Netherlands last week was arrested in Sydney after disembarking from a flight from Dubai, according to Australian media reports. According ...

Mumbai: The new Haj Policy 2018, aiming to make the annual pilgrimage process more “smooth and transparent”, will be unveiled later this month, Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi announced here on Saturday. Addressing the 22nd ...

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India]: A man from Hyderabad has been jailed at Doha in Qatar for allegedly carrying drugs. Shaik Sikander, left for Doha in search of a job on June 20. While leaving for Qatar, his agent, Razaaq, handed him two ...

ABU DHABI:  His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Shaikh Mohamad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the ...

Dubai – Five Australian suspects arrested in Dubai as part of a multinational efforts against two drug trafficking organisations who were under surveillance for “about a year” and did not resist arrest, according to Major General Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, ...

RIYADH: For all those passengers taking its flights to Saudi Arabia, the national carrier Saudia Airlines announced a strict dress code, BBC reported. The airlines placed the details of its dress code on its website stating that it will refuse ...

JEDDAH: All Saudi airports will be privatized this year, the head of the General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA), Abdul Hakim Al-Tamimi, told Aleqtesadiah daily. GACA’s privatization strategy aims to transfer all Saudi airports to companies wholly owned by the ...