Saudi green card will only be given to foreign investors and highly qualified experts among expats, according to a top Shoura Council official. He said a number of ministries are still studying the procedures of granting the permanent residence card. The regulations will be announced soon. Speaking to Arab News,[…]
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange warns more information will be published about Hillary Clinton, enough to indict her if the US government is courageous enough to do so, in what he predicts will be “a very big year” for the whistleblowing website. Expressing concerns in an ITV interview about the Democratic[…]
An attacker has killed a French police commander and his wife at their home in a Paris suburb before being shot dead by police officers. The attack on Monday evening was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, which said the assailant was one of[…]
At least 224 people were killed in the first week of Ramadan in Syria, with the majority of the deaths resulting from bombings by Syrian and Russian warplanes, according to a monitor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said on Monday that between 6 and 12 June[…]
Germany and Namibia are in the advanced stages of talks on officially recognising as “genocide” a colonial-era crackdown more than a century ago in which more than 65 000 ethnic Hereros were killed, the German government said on Monday. It hopes to conclude them by late next year. Historians say[…]
The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Monday calling for Libya’s feuding militias and security forces to unite and strengthen national security forces to defend the country from “terrorism.” The resolution encouraged the recently formed national unity government to finalise interim security arrangements to stabilise the country “as[…]
Egypt’s official gazette al-Wakaei al-Masriya revealed in an appendix published on Sunday a court ruling which was issued in April and which lists the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation and 215 persons as terrorists for three years, without mentioning specific court cases that they could be facing. The court’s[…]
he Italian public prosecution has accused the Egyptian authorities of misleading the investigation into the death of Italian research student Giulio Regeni by claiming a gang murdered him. State television on Sunday quoted a statement by the public prosecutor of Rome saying: “Technical details in the investigation documents sent by[…]
The Abu Sayyaf group has beheaded another Canadian hostage held on a southern Philippine island after ransom demands apparently were not met. Robert Hall was confirmed dead on Monday by a military source who spoke to Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity prior to the official announcement. “Today, Canadian kidnap[…]
As an electricity crisis continues to afflict the Gaza Strip, Muslim residents of the besieged coastal enclave are breaking their fasts on the beach, as the holy month of Ramadan enters its second week. “Without any previous plans and preparations, my wife suggested that we take our homemade food and[…]
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