Latest Arab News
RSS-
SolarWorld seeks nod to make Qatar shareholder
SolarWorld still needs the backing of some bondholders for a wide-ranging debt restructuring that would make Qatar a major new shareholder in the ...
-
Kuwaits Zain eyes acquisitions in IT industries
Kuwait mobile operator Zain will make acquisitions and partnerships in computer-based industries this year to exploit rising demand for data and help offset falling conventional call and text income, its chief executive told ...
-
Oman urged to consider fiscal reforms
Oman should consider fiscal reforms as a priority because continued growth in public spending may be unsustainable in the long run, its central bank has ...
More Arab News
RSS-
Coldwell Banker launches operations in Oman
US-based global provider of real estate services, Coldwell Banker has announced the launch of its Oman operations, Muscat Daily has reported. The company's operations in the sultanate will provide professional real estate services like residential renting, buying and selling services, commercial renting, market research and property valuation, and property and facility ...
-
UN chief welcomes understandings on Syria by G8 leaders
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday welcomed the understandings reached on Syria by leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations in a communique on the same day.In a statement released here by his spokesperson, Ban welcomed the commitment to bring the Syrian sides to the negotiating table, saying that he stands ready to convene the Geneva Conference on Syria as soon as possible to ...
-
G8 statement on Syrias crisis brings nothing new
Syrian analysts said that the G8 leaders brought "nothing new" on the Syrian issue during their two- day summit at Lough Erne in Northern Ireland.After their summit, the G8 countries stressed their commitment to achieve a political solution to Syria's long-standing crisis but didn't call for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as precondition to political dialogue ...
-
Israeli president urges Israel Palestinians to give children ray
Israeli President Shimon Peres urged Tuesday Israeli and Palestinian leaders to give their children a "ray of hope.""We long for peace with our neighbors. The yesterday between us and the Palestinians is full of sadness," Peres said, adding that "I believe that the Israel of tomorrow and the Palestine of tomorrow can offer our children a ray of hope."The president ...
-
Calm restored in southern Lebanon
The Lebanese army completed its deployment in various neighborhoods of the southern city of Sidon which witnessed sectarian clashes Tuesday that left one person dead and four injured.The army Command-Guidance Directorate said in a statement that the army units managed to "eliminate all armed manifestations, opening roads to traffic and fully restoring normal situation."Clashes erupted ...
-
Israeli PM urges Iran to halt uranium enrichment
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel will not accept anything less than the total halt of Iranian uranium enrichment."We cannot accept anything less than a total cessation of all enrichment of nuclear materials at all levels, removal of all enriched nuclear material and a closure of Iran's illicit nuclear facilities," Netanyahu said during a ...
-
France ready to work with Irans new president-elect
France was ready to work with the newly-elected Iranian moderate cleric Hassan Rohani, urging him to take concrete moves to build the confidence with the West, Foreign Affairs Ministry said Tuesday."France has taken note of the election of Mr. Hassan Rohani and was determined, with its partners to find a long-term diplomatic solution," to suspend Teheran's uranium ...
-
Cisco set to open new center in Israel
The US technology giant Cisco plans to open a new research and development center in Israel, the company's CEO John Chambers said during his meeting with Israel's Minister of Finance Yair Lapid on Tuesday.The new center is expected to offer 100 jobs, to be added to about 2,000 employees already work at Cisco center in Israel.Chambers said the new project, whose main focus is ...
-
Lebanon reiterates appeal to Intl commusharing burden of Syrian
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati reiterated Tuesday his appeal for the international community to cooperate with Lebanon in sharing the burden of Syrian refugee influx.Miqati called for imposing certain standards on the refugees entering Lebanon during a conference attended by UN Higher Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.The prime minister said Lebanon would not be able to cope with ...
-
Sectarian clashes erupt in southern Lebanon
Clashes erupted on Tuesday between followers of a Sunni cleric and alleged pro-Hezbollah fighters in Sidon of southern Lebanon, a local security source told Xinhua.Unconfirmed reports said one of cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Assir's supporters was killed in the clashes.The Lebanese army units were deployed in the region immediately in a bid to restore security.Several media reports said ...
-
EU Lebanon discuss Syrian refugee issue
Visiting EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Tuesday discussed with Lebanese officials the plight of Syrian refugees in the country and urged "a political solution to the conflict in Syria."According to a statement, Ashton said after a meeting with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman that "de-escalating tensions in Lebanon is a priority."Ashton said "any country ...
-
G8 leaders urge peace conference on Syrian
Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) said on Tuesday a peace conference on the Syrian crisis should be held "as soon as possible."In a final communique, G8 leaders said they were determined "to work together to stop the bloodshed and loss of life in Syria and to support the Syrian people to establish peace and stability through political means.""We are gravely concerned at ...
-
Kingdom tops Arab world with $ 12.2 bn FDI inflow
KHALIL HANWARE | Arab News Staff Last Update 19 June 2013 2:05 am JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia topped the list as foreign direct investment (FDI) into Arab states rose by 9.8 percent last year. Despite unrest in some of them, FDI in Arab states exceeded $ 47 billion in 2012 compared with $ 42.9 ...
-
Islamists Press Blasphemy Cases in a New Egypt
DEIR EL GABRAWI, Egypt ...
-
Hapag-Lloyd to Add Bahrain Call to Intra-Asia Services
will add a direct port call at Bahrain to its South China Sea Express and Middle East Express services.The new rotation will begin on Aug. 12, with the sailing of the NYK Theseus, voyage 26w/27e33, according to the container ...
-
UPDATE 2-Egypt tourism minister protests over Islamist governor
Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:30pm EDT * Tourism minister sees "dire consequences" * New Luxor governor is member of ex-militant group * Says proud of pharaonic temples, will protect them * Pledges to welcome and protect tourists (Rewrites with tourism minister resignation) By Tom Perry and Asma Alsharif CAIRO, June 18 (Reuters) - Egypt's tourism minister tendered his resignation on Tuesday ...
-
CAPTIVE IN KUWAITContract Dispute Leaves 100 Americans Stranded
More than 100 American citizens have been trapped on two U.S. Army bases in Kuwait for months because of a contract dispute. (Wikipedia/public ...
-
Cancellation of Arab American Film Festival a Troubling Sign
This is where we are today, as a country and a society. You can't even hold an Arab American film festival in Dearborn, Michigan, a center of the Arab American community in this country. The festival was supposed to run this month, but last month the Arab American Chamber of Commerce pulled the plug on it. What a shame! Young filmmakers from across the US and the world would have come ...
-
As Syria crisis roils Middle East Ban says Israeli-Palestinian peace remains urgent priority
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said ';we must not lose sight of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,'; whose resolution was no less urgent. Calling for a ';clear political horizon'; to break the impasse and maximize present momentum, Mr. Ban told the UN Asia and Pacific International Meeting in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, in ...
-
US to talk to Taliban as they open Qatar office
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US envoys will launch talks this week with the Taliban, officials announced Tuesday, in a tentative first step towards finding a negotiated escape from the decade-long Afghan war.The chance to start a dialogue came as the Islamist insurgent group opened a political office in the Qatari capital Doha to act as an embassy to its foes in Washington and President Hamid ...
-
Defiant Putin torpedoes G-8 efforts to urge Assad to leave power
Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama wave during a group photo opportunity during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Lefteris ...
-
Saudi Arabia’s role in Syria driven by fear of Shiite ‘full moon’
Gulf Research Center in Jeddah. Since the fall of Syrian rebel stronghold Qusair this month, there has been growing unease in Saudi Arabia’s dusty capital Riyadh about the opposition’s chances. Riyadh has been backing the mainly Sunni rebels with arms, money and political support, while Western countries, above all the U.S., have given mixed signals, calling for Assad’s ...
Saudi Arabia Digest
-
Saudi Arabia's massive infastructure drive
Saudi Arabia is in the midst of a major construction boom being implemented and supported by the national government in order to improve infrastructure and living standards in the largest economy in the Arab world.
It was recently announced by the director-general of the Saudi Industrial Property Authority (MODON), Tawfig Fawzan Alrabiah, that a new industrial city would be built in Taif in order to cope with growing demand for industrial land in Saudi Arabia. The Taif Industrial City will in fact be a ‘city within a city’ so to speak, but will measure 11 square miles in size and will function as a fully-fledged industrial city, providing all the infrastructure required in such zones. Read more
News from around our Network
