Новости за 11.05.2019

DUBAI: Iran could target US commercial ships including oil tankers, the US Maritime Administration said, as a senior Iranian cleric said a US Navy fleet could be “destroyed with one missile.” In the latest tense exchange between Tehran and Washington, Iran’s hardline Revolutionary Guards separately said Iran would not negotiate with the United States, a […]

ISLAMABAD: Threats, arrests, blocked accounts and restricted posts – Big Brother is watching more closely than ever in Pakistan as authorities accelerate efforts to censor social networks, further reducing an already shrunken space for dissent. In the past 18 months, a slew of journalists, activists, and government opponents – both at home and overseas – […]

Washington has tightened its economic sanctions on Iran, but the question people are wondering about is whether US sanctions on Iran is an escalation towards a destructive war in the region or just a political maneuver and strategy of maximum pressure. And what is the future of the Gulf region under this tension? I think […]

HODEIDA: Yemen’s Houthi movement yesterday started withdrawing forces from Saleef port in Hodeidah under a UN-sponsored deal that had been stalled for months, a Reuters witness said, reviving hopes for peace efforts to end the four-year war. The move, which has yet to be verified by the UN and accepted by the Saudi-led coalition, is […]

PARIS: The two French tourists rescued from their kidnappers in Burkina Faso this week were seized in an area of Benin that France has long advised travellers to avoid, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said yesterday. “The zone where our two citizens were has for some time now been considered a red zone, which means […]

CHICAGO: Racist demagogue and dangerous fundamentalist to some, heroic crusader for black rights to others, incendiary religious leader Louis Farrakhan is finding the audience for his message increasingly hard to reach. The head of the Nation of Islam – barred for years from Britain and blocked from mainstream TV – has been declared an undesirable […]

MANILA: Gertrudes Batocabe never wanted to enter the Philippines’ cutthroat politics, but after her husband was shot dead, allegedly by a rival in next week’s midterm election, she felt bound to take his place. “It’s not really automatic that the wife takes over, but in this case I cannot see my opponents sitting down (quitting)” […]

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump cranked up the heat in a trade battle with China on Friday, ordering a tariff hike on almost all remaining imports from the world’s second-biggest economy, but Beijing said talks would continue to resolve the row. After tweeting that two days of trade talks in Washington had been “candid and […]

KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received the visiting Bahraini Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa and his accompanying delegation at Dasman Palace on Thursday, in presence of His Highness Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The Bahraini premier congratulated His Highness the Amir on the occasion of […]

KUWAIT: According to official statistics, Kuwaitis’ total spending on travel increased by 17.6 percent in 2018, where they spent KD 4.03 billion ($13.9 billion), compared to only KD 3.43 billion ($11.31 billion) in 2017. The statistics also showed revenues from tourism have retreated by 10.6 percent as the tourism sector only made KD 378 million […]

KUWAIT: The national project for the development of the healthy school canteen is one of the important methods and tools recently adopted by the Kuwaiti Ministry of Education to strengthen the nutritional status of school students in cooperation with Kuwait Flour Mills and Bakery Company. This initiative encourages students to change the wrong habits and […]