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Riyadh's decision to overturn a ban on women driving in the kingdom spurs euphoria and sarcasm on social media. Barely a week after a senior Saudi cleric said women in the country should not be allowed to drive because they have "a quarter the brainpower...

Several African countries have downgraded ties with Qatar, which has wielded influence in the continent since the 1990s   Cairo: Nearly four months on, the Gulf crisis is reshaping alliances in Africa and placing pressure on wavering countries in the continent, analysts have said. In June, Saudi...

By Tariq Alfaham NEW YORK, 22nd September, 2017 (WAM) -- The United Arab Emirates, UAE, participated in the Ministerial Meeting on Somalia, which was held on the sidelines of the 72nd Session of the United Nations, UN, General Assembly, in New York, on Thursday. Fares Al...

Turkey   will grant around 50,000 Syrians citizenship, a top Interior Ministry official said Friday. Speaking in Turkey's southern province of Şanlıurfa, one of the cities hosting Syrian refugee camps, Interior Ministry General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs Manager Sinan Güner told Anadolu Agency...

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) The Peninsula Qatar University (QU) yesterday held a roundtable discussion on 'The Gulf and Africa aimed to provide an overview on the growth prospects in Africa and to address the Africa-Gulf relations. The event featured three discussions moderated by QU Gulf Studies...

China's opening of a military facility in Djibouti just a few miles from a U.S. base should spark a new era of cooperation between the two countries in Africa, according to the top U.S. commander on the continent. Beijing formally opened its first overseas military...

Human Rights Watch has accused the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen of committing war crimes, saying its air strikes killed 39 civilians including 26 children in two months. The rights group says five air strikes that hit four family homes and a grocery store were...

Mr Slater said that he had to earn the trust of the monkeys over several days before venturing close enough to get the selfie A photographer has won a two-year legal fight against an animal rights group over a "monkey selfie" photograph. Naruto the macaque monkey...

SINGAPORE: Former Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob is set to be Singapore’s first Malay president in more than 47 years, after the Elections Department (ELD) said on Monday (Sept 11) that only one individual qualified for the inaugural reserved Presidential Election. Among those who submitted...

'Humans are all the same, religions does not make us different ... we are all human and all born equal.' by:Katie Arnold Mohammed Soye, 33, comes from Buthidaung town in Rakhine State, Myanmar, which he fled 10 days ago. I was a farmer in Buthidaung township, just like every...