High-Level Meeting Excludes Kyiv, Raising Concerns over Future of Conflict Riyadh/Moscow/Washington: Senior officials from the United States and Russia met in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for the first high-level discussions since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago. The talks, held at Riyadh’s Diriyah Palace, focused on exploring a potential resolution to the ongoing...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the proposals put forward by the new US administration regarding Gaza, due to pressure from the Zionist Lobby, have no worth from our perspective. They are futile efforts. No one has the power to expel Gazans from their eternal homeland. Palestine belongs to Palestinians. Erdogan’s statement comes in response...
By – Samya Nabi While joy filled the air with Eid Celebrations, hearts in Makkah mourned as pilgrims succumbed to the unforgiving heatwave. The annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca turned tragic this year as scorching temperatures soared above 50°C, leading to the deaths of at least 1,301 individuals, largely unregistered pilgrims who suffered the intense heat...
The United States is doing all in its power to thwart the exercise of inalienable rights of Palestinian people to have their own independent state, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the General Debate of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly. “It is impossible to fully normalize the situation in the...
The Saudi Foreign Ministry in a statement welcomed the positive results of the serious discussions regarding reaching a road map to support the peace path in Yemen. “The kingdom continues to stand with Yemen and its brotherly people and encourages the Yemeni parties to sit at the negotiating table to reach a comprehensive and lasting...
Saudi foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said there will be no solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without an independent Palestinian state. “The two-state solution must return to the forefront,” he added while speaking to Al Arabiya Television on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session. According to the minister, the stability of the Middle East...
In India, the word “Global South” is increasingly appearing in the news during G-20 Summit as a new identity and new slogan. But this term was coined more than half century ago referring to emerging economies and poor countries. The term Global South was first coined in 1969 by political activist Carl Oglesby. During the...
The world was fighting with Covid-19 but Saudi Arabia flooded the oil market to close the US shale industry. Every country requires performing energy markets for economic development but since mid- February oil and financial markets have been rocked due to Covid-19. According to International Energy Agency (IEA), the oil industry is going through ‘the...
Stock markets in Europe and the US are facing for their biggest worst falls since the 2008 financial crisis after the trading week began with panic selling amid the double threat of a coronavirus-driven global recession and an oil-price war. The FTSE 100 was projected to plunge by 6.3% when trading begins on Monday, while...