Holy sites embrace light transportation solutions
Arab News :The Royal Commission for Makkah City and Holy Sites, represented by the General Transport Center, has implemented initiatives aimed at promoting the use...
International
Plane grounded in France over human trafficking fears
BBC :A plane carrying 303 Indian passengers has been grounded at an airport in north-eastern France on suspicion of human trafficking, French media report.The Airbus...
Japan raises defence budget to record $56bn
Al Jazeera :Japan has loosened its arms exports restrictions to allow it to send domestically produced missiles and artillery to countries that include the United...
India probe into bribery in toxic syrup tests nears completion
Reuters :India is close to finishing an investigation into a “comprehensive and exhaustive” complaint that a state drug regulator, in return for a bribe, helped...
Entire Gaza population facing hunger crisis, famine risk: UN-backed report
Reuters :The entire 2.3 million population of the Gaza Strip is facing crisis levels of hunger and the risk of famine is increasing each day...
Turkey carries out mass detention of ISIL suspects
Al Jazeera :Turkey has arrested hundreds of people suspected of having links to ISIS (ISIL).The roundup was carried out in operations across 32 provinces, Interior...
Russia blasts US on frozen assets as Ukraine bombardment persists
Al Jazeera :Russia has warned that it will react robustly to Western moves to seize its assets or deploy missiles.Moscow could sever diplomatic relations with...
Ethnic minority fighters seize northern town from Myanmar military regime
Al Jazeera :Pick-up trucks carrying ethnic minority fighters rolled into a town in Myanmar’s northeastern Shan state recently cleared of troops from the military regime,...
US, China top military officials speak for first time in over a year
Reuters :The top US military officer held a virtual meeting with his Chinese counterpart on Thursday, the Pentagon said, in the first such conversation in...
Trump says he hasn’t read Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’
AFP : Former US president Donald Trump, who has come under sharp criticism for attacks on immigrants which some say hark back to Nazi philosophy,...
China struggles to house quake victims for winter
AFP : Chinese authorities are facing a “race against time” to ensure victims of the deadliest earthquake in years can be sheltered from freezing winter...