President Joe Biden’s administration stands ready to release even more barrels of oil from its strategic reserves should the need arise again, according to the U.S. State Department’s senior advisor for global energy security. “Absolutely. […]
MADRID: Widespread use of Covid-19 “passports” and vaccines helped tourism recover faster in the European Union than in other parts of the world in the third quarter of 2021, a UN report said on Monday. […]
The Taliban asked for help in keeping Afghanistan’s airports running in weekend talks with EU officials that also raised “grave concern” about the humanitarian situation in their country, according to an EU statement late Sunday. […]
ISTANBUL: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Monday condemned a visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog to the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to celebrate the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. […]
NEW YORK: BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson are working on vaccines that specifically target Omicron in case their existing shots are not effective against the new coronavirus variant, the companies said on Monday. The […]
MANAMA: The US Navy has rescued two Iranian seamen who had been adrift for eight days on a fishing boat in Gulf waters, a statement said on Sunday. The men were in “good health and […]
RABAT: Morocco will push for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, King Mohammed VI said on Monday, almost a year after his country renewed ties with the Jewish state. “Morocco will continue its efforts, building […]
BEIRUT: Demonstrators, some of them burning tyres, blocked roads across parts of Lebanon on Monday in protest at the country’s economic meltdown, days after the Lebanese pound sank to new lows. Lebanon’s economic crisis, which […]
LONDON: Britain will work “flat out” and keep “all options on the table” in order to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss vowed on Monday. Truss met her Israeli counterpart […]
GENEVA: The WHO said on Monday the Omicron coronavirus variant carried a very high risk of infection surges as more countries closed their borders and reported cases of the new strain. The emergence of Omicron […]
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