Saudi Arabia is undergoing a significant cultural shift in parallel with the economic diversification of the Kingdom. Digital transformation is paving the way for creative innovation and new job creation in key sectors such as technology and tourism (...)
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DAMMAM — The Eastern Province registered last Monday the death of one of its health cadres, also marking the first expatriate doctor to have died in the region.
The death of the Syrian doctor Muhammad Muslih Qatranji, 57, who was (...)
DUBAI — Qatar reported on Sunday 1,501 new coronavirus cases, and two fatalities, bringing the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country up to 34,521 and the death toll up to 23.
The Ministry of Health also reported the recovery of 657 (...)
DUBAI — The Consulate General of India in Dubai warned Indian nationals in the United Arab Emirates of people running scams, collecting money and claiming to operate repatriation flights amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"It has come to our notice that (...)
DUBAI — The effect of sunlight, heat and the weather on the coronavirus is being studied, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health Spokesperson Dr. Mohammed Al-Abulaali said on Sunday.
A reporter during the COVID-19 daily updates press conference asked: (...)
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RIYADH — Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Finance Minister Ali Allawi's visit to the Kingdom has given a new impetus to the long-standing relations between the two countries.
The Iraqi deputy premier, who was here on Saturday, (...)
A STUDY by a Ukrainian professor predicted that the coronavirus pandemic will end no earlier than March 2021 and that the COVID-19 virus will infect more than five million people.
His study also used a model to predict the dynamics of the (...)
DUBAI -- Bahrain reported 513 new cases of coronavirus infection and one death, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the country up to 6,583 and the death toll up to 12 fatalities, according to the Ministry of Health.
Out of the new cases (...)
DUBAI -- Qatar reported on Friday 1,153 new cases of coronavirus infection, raising the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country up to 29,425.
The Ministry of Health said most of the cases were expat workers who contracted the virus (...)
DUBAI -- Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman said on Monday the Kingdom will continue in its efforts to remove Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. This came in a phone call he had with the head of Sudan's Sovereign Council, Abdel (...)
DUBAI -- Researchers in the United States found that using vape or electronic cigarettes increased an individual's susceptibility to coronavirus infection and death.
The researchers studied the statistical correlation between the percentage of (...)
DUBAI -- The UAE reported on Monday new cases of coronavirus infections among four families which did not adhere to precautionary measures and social distancing, and gathered for Taraweeh prayers, spreading the COVID-19 virus among the family (...)
DUBAI -- A research project by Singapore University of Technology and Design used data-based estimations to create models which show the coronavirus life-cycle in specific countries, and estimated "end dates" in specific countries, including the (...)
DUBAI — The United Arab Emirates banned on Tuesday the entry of children under the age of 12 and seniors above the age of 60 to malls, retail shops and supermarkets, as part of the government's efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, state (...)
DUBAI -- Qatar Airways is planning to cut a significant number of jobs because travel has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, and told cabin crew to prepare for redundancies, according to a company notice seen by Reuters.
The state-owned (...)
DUBAI -- The United Arab Emirates reported on Saturday eight new deaths and 561 new cases of COVID-19 infection, raising the total tally up to 13,599 confirmed coronavirus cases and the death toll up to 119 fatalities.
The UAE also reported the (...)
DUBAI -- The UAE's newly developed stem-cell treatment for the coronavirus is not curative, as it doesn't kill the virus; it helps COVID-19 patients overcome the symptoms of the disease, Fatima Al-Kaabi, head hematology and oncology at Sheikh (...)
DUBAI -- The Secretary General of the Muslim World League (MWL) Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa said that German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein was "not an atheist" but rather believed in a higher power that controlled the (...)
DUBAI -- Social media users circulated on Friday pictures allegedly showing the towers of Bahraini capital Manama viewed from Al-Khobar's corniche in Saudi Arabia, with many saying that was due to the reduction in air pollution amid the coronavirus (...)
DUBAI — Dubai's Police Chief Maj. Gen. Abdullah Khalifa Al-Marri said on Thursday that he was optimistic there will be no more "stringent measures" introduced in any areas in Dubai or the rest of the UAE.
He was referring to the lockdowns previously (...)
DUBAI — Bahrain reported on Thursday 116 new coronavirus cases, most of which were among expatriate workers, brining the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in the country up to 3,040 cases, while the death toll stood at eight (...)
DUBAI — Qatar reported on Thursday 845 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in the country up to 13,409 cases. The small Gulf nation overtook the United Arab Emirates as the country with the (...)
DUBAI -- Abu Dhabi's Department of Economic Development (DED) on Monday issued a set of comprehensive health guidelines for malls in the emirate in order to allow them to re-open to the public, after they were shut down as part of the government's (...)
DUBAI — Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, chief of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques, on Monday used "Ozone tech" to sterilize Islam's holiest site, the Holy Kaaba in the Grand Mosque, amid the coronavirus outbreak.
"Ozone (...)
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia's stand on Iran is not necessarily aligned with the policy of the United States irrespective of the political dispensation, and this is the cardinal mistake what most of the commentators make, said Mohammed Khalid Al-Yahya, an (...)