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Pakistan is refusing to abandon its neutrality after being asked by Saudi Arabia to take a stance amid growing tensions between a number of Gulf Arab states and Qatar. Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif  held a meeting Monday in...

By SAEED AL-BATATI and ERIC SCHMITT AL MUKALLA, Yemen — Thousands of Yemeni troops are conducting a clearing operation aimed at driving Qaeda militants from one of their major strongholds in southern Yemen, according to Arab and American security officials. The offensive in Shabwa Province started...

The United Nations on Monday rejected a call by the Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen for the key port of Hodeidah to be placed under its supervision. The coalition made the appeal following an attack on a boat carrying Somali refugees off the coast...

RIYADH, 23rd March, 2018 (WAM) -- An official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia yesterday, expressed strong condemnation and denunciation of the explosion that took place in front of an hotel in Somalia's capital of Mogadishu, leaving...

Fixing fragile nations: lessons from Afghanistan and South Sudan IN THE middle of 2016 a suicide-bomber blew up a minibus full of judicial staff in Kabul. The injured were rushed to the Emergency Hospital in the Afghan capital. One was married to a nurse there,...

  Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on the morning of October 10 attended the ROC's 110th Double Tenth National Day Celebration in the plaza fronting the Presidential Office Building, and delivered an address entitled "Forging a Stronger Consensus: Standing United to Protect Taiwan." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUSVwOT7iQw A translation of the...

BY:Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The advocate for girls' right to education worldwide is only the sixth person to ever receive the symbolic title. Toronto, Canada - Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has become only the sixth person, and the youngest, to receive honorary...

The Peninsula Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met with Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Somalia to the State of Qatar, Omar Sheikh Ali Idris, on the occasion of ending his tenure in the State. The...

Malaysia and Turkey yesterday condemned escalating human rights violations targeting the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar's Rakhine state. Malaysia summoned Myanmar's ambassador U Sein Oo to the foreign ministry where Kuala Lumpur registered its "deep concern regarding the escalation of violence", warning that it could...

By Manasi Gopalakrishnan Conflict and poverty force millions of people to leave their countries and seek a better life elsewhere. Many of them get separated from their loved ones in the process, but an organization is helping them reconnect. Forty seven year-old Abdi escaped from...