Tag: Al Arabiya

YEMEN – Yemeni military intercepts explosive-laden drone near Aden’s presidential palace (Al Arabiya)

Yemeni military intercepted and destroyed an explosive-laden drone near Aden’s presidential Maasheeq palace. https://englishbeta.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2020/12/30/Yemeni-military-intercepts-explosive-laden-drone-near-Aden-s-presidential-palace

RUSSIA/UK – Moscow expands list of UK officials banned from Russia in spat over Navalny poisoning (Al Arabiya)

Moscow on Wednesday expanded a list of UK officials banned from entering Russia in a tit-for-tat response to British sanctions imposed over the poisoning...

USA/IRAQ/UN – Trump’s Blackwater pardons ‘an affront to justice’: UN experts (Al Arabiya)

US President Donald Trump’s pardons of four Blackwater contractors convicted of killing civilians in a 2007 Baghdad massacre is a violation of US obligations...

AFGHANISTAN – Afghan troops and police abandon nearly 200 checkpoints to the Taliban (Al Arabiya)

Afghan security personnel have abandoned nearly 200 checkpoints in restive Kandahar province in recent weeks, officials said Wednesday, in some cases leaving behind their...

LEBANON/SYRIAN REFUGEES – Lebanon’s racism is fanning the flames of violence towards Syrian refugees (Makram Rabah, Al Arabiya)

As Lebanon celebrated Christmas, a Syrian refugee camp in Miniyeh in the north of Lebanon was attacked by a group of local youths who...

SAUDI ARABIA – Saudi Arabia’s STC partners with Alibaba Cloud to provide public cloud services (Al Arabiya)

Saudi Telecom Company (STC) announced a new partnership with Alibaba Cloud, a cloud computing company and a subsidiary of the Alibaba Group, to leverage...

LEBANON – FBI found Beirut port blast caused by 500 tons of fertilizer, not 2,700 tons: PM Diab (Al Arabiya)

Lebanon’s outgoing premier Hassan Diab said Tuesday that an FBI investigation into an August 4 explosion at the Beirut port found it was caused...

CHINA/EUROPE – In dialogue with Omar Al-Ubaydli (Al Arabiya)

China hopes lengthy negotiations for an investment deal with the European Union can wrap up at an “early date”, a foreign ministry spokesman said...

INDIA – India’s Punjab state looking into whether protesting farmers sabotaged telecom towers (Al Arabiya)

Authorities in India’s northern state of Punjab are investigating whether protesting farmers were disrupting power supply to hundreds of telecom towers, a state official...

MOROCCO/ISRAEL – Moroccan team in Israel to set up liaison office: source (Al Arabiya)

Moroccan officials are in Israel laying the groundwork for the opening of a liaison office in the Jewish state, a source familiar with the...

CHINA/USA/HONG KONG – China rejects US call to release Hong Kong fugitives (Al Arabiya)

China urged the United States to stop using the Hong Kong issue to interfere with its domestic affairs on Monday, after the US embassy...

INDIA/KASHMIR – Indian police charge army officer, civilian for killing three laborers in Kashmir (Al Arabiya)

Indian police in Kashmir filed charges against an army officer and a civilian for allegedly killing three laborers and planting weapons to pass them...

RUSSIA/BARENTS SEA – 17 people missing after Russian fishing boat sinks in Barents Sea (Al Arabiya)

Seventeen people were missing Monday and two were rescued after a Russian fishing boat sank in the Barents Sea, apparently due to icing, the...

SUDAN/SOUTH DARFUR – Sudan deploys ‘large numbers’ of troops to South Darfur after violence erupts (Al Arabiya)

Sudan will deploy “large numbers” of troops to South Darfur state after the killing of 15 people in tribal violence recently, the state news...

USA/IRAN – Biden needs to build on Trump success to aid Iranian people (Mariam Memarsadeghi, Al Arabiya)

Five years after the Iran deal, many of the policy minds from the Obama era are headed back into government as US President elect...

SAUDI ARABIA/IRAN/RED SEA – Arab Coalition destroys five Iranian-made naval mines in Red Sea (Ismaeel Naar, Al Arabiya)

The Arab Coalition has said it has found and destroyed give Iranian-made “Sadaf” naval mines during the past 24 hours, according to a statement. https://englishbeta.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2020/12/27/Arab-Coalition-destroys-five-Iranian-made-naval-mines-in-Red-Sea