ضبطت بلدية غرب الدمام، منزلا تم تجهيزه كمعمل للفطائر والحلويات، يفتقر إلى الاشتراطات الصحية، تقوم عليه عمالة مخالفة، وصادرت 3 أطنان من المواد الغذائية.
وأوضح رئيس بلدية غرب الدمام المهندس فيصل بن عبدالهادي القحطاني، أن الفرق الميدانية التابعة لإدارة (...)
قالت الأمم المتحدة إن ما يتراوح بين 12 و16 ألف شخص غادروا الغوطة الشرقية في الأيام القليلة الماضية، بينما وردت تقارير عن أن المعارك في منطقة عفرين الشمالية تسببت في نزوح أكثر من 48 ألفاً.
وقالت ليندا توم وهي متحدثة باسم مكتب الأمم المتحدة لتنسيق (...)
DESPITE her dramatic electoral upset, British Prime Minister Theresa May appears determined to stay in office. In the short term, she could yet manage it. But the longer-term consequences may well be disastrous for her country.
Negotiations on the (...)
WHEN I rolled my wheelchair out of my apartment block last Sunday morning - mere hours after three attackers killed seven a few hundred yards away in London Bridge and Borough Market - the most striking thing was the sense of calm.
American (...)
IF President Donald Trump wanted to make an impression with his first visit to Europe last week, he unquestionably succeeded.
In their own ways, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and new French President Emmanuel Macron this weekend signaled just how (...)
It shouldn't be a surprise that Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) was quick to claim responsibility for Monday's suicide attack in Manchester that killed 22 people. As its last territory in Iraq's second city of Mosul falls to US-backed Iraqi forces (...)
The outpouring of international relief over the French far right failing to seize the presidency says a lot about the febrile nature of modern Western politics. Europe has dodged a bullet, and the victory of Emmanuel Macron is, in the broader sense (...)
When Estonia became the first nation on the receiving end of an overwhelming cyber attack 10 years ago last week, government and other critical websites and systems such as banking collapsed in one of the most internet-connected countries of the (...)
When US President Donald Trump ordered cruise-missile strikes on a Syrian air base shortly after this month's chemical weapons attack, some Obama administration veterans were openly impressed. We "never would have gotten this done in 48 hours," one (...)
With the threat of chemical weapons in Syria and nuclear arms in North Korea, the risk of biological weapons has largely dropped off the international agenda. But evolving technologies and genetic engineering may open the door to new dangers.
Other (...)
based taxis bring radical shift in commuting culture
By Irfan Mohammed
Saudi Gazette
PAKISTANI cab driver Gulam Mohiuddin started work at 6 in the morning and by 5 p.m. he was only able to make SR100. He was still SR70 short of the daily lease he (...)
MARCH 2017 is an uncomfortable time to be a European. Almost wherever you look, traditional certainties are unraveling in the face of a perfect storm of crises.
This week Britain will trigger Article 50, firing the starting gun on its departure from (...)
For much of the last week, the US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson has been patrolling the South China Sea. It is just the kind of display of Washington's power and global reach that the US Navy excels at - both to reassure allies and, in this case, (...)
based technology company, has announced a partnership with AlTibbi, an online medical mobile application, to connect Uber partner-drivers with on-demand doctors.
The application allows partner-drivers to connect with a selection of certified (...)
George W. Bush invaded Iraq to remove its - ultimately nonexistent - weapons of mass destruction. Barack Obama used cyber weaponry and sanctions to deter Iran from building its own atomic bomb. Now Donald Trump faces North Korea, but stopping its (...)
EVEN as President Donald Trump described NATO as "obsolete" barely a week before taking office, the United States was completing its largest move of troops and armor to Europe in decades. Other NATO states, meanwhile - particularly those closest to (...)
In its 7,000 years of existence, Aleppo has been fought over by Babylonians, Greeks and Romans. The modern battle for the ancient Syrian city, however, may yet be as significant for the future of the Middle East as those fought by the kingdoms and (...)
When it comes to managing relations with China, Donald Trump is tearing up the rulebook. First by using Twitter to announce his telephone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, and then in his Sunday afternoon complaints over Beijing's economic (...)
based car booking service, has announced a new strategic partnership with Apple Inc. whereby Careem users or "Careemers" can now order a Careem ride in just seconds, through Siri.
Users can avail the option by enabling Siri and then simply asking (...)
"Brexit means Brexit," Theresa May has said repeatedly since becoming British Prime Minister more than two months ago. Now we know what that almost nonsensical phrase actually means - a tougher and much more complete extraction from the European (...)
IF you're a historic US ally under mounting pressure from an emerging superpower like China, it's probably not a good idea to use a crude sexual epithet to describe the American president. Filipino leader Rodrigo Duterte, though, is far from a (...)
Two years into Washington's war against Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS), it may finally be winning. At the same time, however, its influence over events in the broader Middle East seems perhaps terminally in decline.
What happens in the coming months (...)
When WikiLeaks dumped tens of thousands of often embarrassing internal Democratic Party emails, it didn't take long for the finger to be pointed at Moscow.
In many ways, that should hardly be surprising. The distinctly idiosyncratic dynamic between (...)
In some ways, the most worrying thing about 2016 is that there are still more than five months of it left. Given just how much bad news has been packed into the year so far, the question has to be asked - what else could go wrong?
The answer, of (...)
I WROTE last week that the risk of war in Europe was back. This week, unfortunately, the likelihood of confrontation in Asia seems to be spiking higher as well.
Two events in particular have driven this development, separate but subtly interlinked. (...)