Category: General

The State of Qatar took part today in the Ministerial Meeting for Key Partners in Support of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), on the margins of the 79th United Nations General Assembly in New…

Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba won Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) presidential election on Friday in a runoff vote, defeating economic security minister Sanae Takaichi to become Japan’s next prime minister.

Ishiba, 67, won 2…

ABU DHABI: The Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC) has announced the shortlists for the Arts, Poetic Publications, and Poetry Matching categories of the third edition of the Kanz Al Jeel Award, featuring 14 works from six countries.

In a recent me…

Gold remains on track for its best quarterly performance since the first quarter of 2016, after rallying on the back of a major U.S. interest rate cut.

Spot gold fell 0.1 percent to $2,666.50 an ounce, remaining below the previous session’s all-tim…

The Jordanian Armed Forces carried out an airdrop of humanitarian and food aid to the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, using a C130 aircraft belonging to the Royal Jordanian Air Force. The airdrop included relief and humanitarian aid to support the p…

The State of Qatar has participated in an event entitled “Learnings from Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Achieving the SDGs for all and leaving no woman or girl behind,” at the invitation of the Kingdom of Thailand, the ASEAN Secretar…

TASHKENT: Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, today received H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Defence, in Tashkent. H.H. Sheikh Hamdan is lead…

The US real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 3.0 percent in the second quarter of 2024, according to the “third” estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

In the first quarter, real GDP increased 1.6 perce…