Basra Oil Company of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil denied on Monday the authenticity of a video clip on social media about purported oil drilling by Kuwait at a location very close to the Kuwaiti-Iraqi border. The company said in a statement that the cir...

Kuwait’s health ministry announced Monday that a new update is available for the ‘Immune’ application that allows users to add their vaccine information and COVID-19 test results for one or six companions. Management Information System Director...

  Chinese pop idol Kris Wu denied date raping a teenage student Monday, as brands began severing ties with the star. Wu shot to fame as a member of the South Korean boy band EXO, and has racked up a slew of lucrative acting, modelling and singin...

BENGHAZI: Muslims in war-scarred Libya mark Eid Al-Adha from Tuesday, but few will be able to afford the sheep or goat traditionally slaughtered during the festival. The guns may have fallen silent in the North African country, but its people are now...

  WASHINGTON: The United States and Vietnam on Monday said they had reached an agreement to resolve a dispute over the value of Hanoi’s dong currency, which Washington had briefly accused it of manipulating. Washington in April withdrew it...

MAKKAH: In Makkah, the site of the annual hajj, the sons of a prominent Saudi guide who died of COVID after three decades serving pilgrims have taken up the torch in tribute. Talaat Tounsi came from one of the six families in Makkah who traditionally...

BERLIN: The death toll from Germany’s worst floods in living memory rose to 165 on Monday as emergency services continued to comb through decimated towns in search of dozens of people still missing. A deluge of rain fell over western Germany ov...

ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia has attained its second-year target for filling a mega-dam on the Blue Nile River that has stoked tensions with downstream countries Egypt and Sudan, an official told AFP on Monday. “The first filling already was done last...

NIAMEY, Niger: Sheep trader Ali Zala, head wrapped in a blue turban, is cursing his luck. “There is a shortage like we have never seen before because of this damned security crisis,” he says, sitting among around 30 skeletal sheep in Nige...

CAPE TOWN: Graced with rolling vineyards, bountiful big game, the iconic Table Mountain, endless sandy beaches and vast cultural riches, South Africa would have expected to cash in on a post-virus travel boom. But a week of violent rioting and lootin...