Tue, 2022-12-27 21:38 AL-MUKALLA: The Yemeni riyal began plummeting in government-controlled areas this week, days after the head of the Presidential Leadership Council said his government will be unable to pay public employees due to Houthi strikes. The riyal was … read more
Tue, 2022-12-27 21:15 BEIRUT: A Lebanese MP has called for action against smugglers who are worsening the economic crises by smuggling already scarce US dollars out of the country to Syria. Hadi Abu Al-Hassan said the smugglers, who are capitalizing … read more
Mon, 2022-12-26 22:54 AL-MUKALLA, Yemen: Efforts to renew the UN-brokered truce and bring peace to Yemen have been dashed after Omani mediators left Sanaa without any reported progress, and the Iran-backed Houthis threatened to renew the fight if their demands … read more
Mon, 2022-12-26 22:50 CAIRO: Tribal violence in Sudan’s long-restive region of Darfur killed at least 12 people over the past few days, an aid group said. The clashes between herdsmen and farmers in the Beleil area in South Darfur province … read more
Mon, 2022-12-26 22:36 TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu called a vote in parliament on his new government for Thursday Dec. 29, the speaker of the Knesset said on Monday, after almost two months of coalition wrangling. Netanyahu’s bloc … read more