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World
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Region
4/16/2024 4:30:00 PM
Heavy rains lashed the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, flooding out portions of major highways and leaving vehicles abandoned on roadways across Dubai. Meanwhile, the death toll in separate heavy flooding in neighbouring Oman rose to 18 with others still missing as the sultanate prepared for the storm.
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World
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Region
4/15/2024 5:54:38 PM
Flooding in Oman has killed at least 16 people, many of them schoolchildren, authorities said following the discovery of the bodies of a child and three adults on Monday.
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World
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Region
3/27/2024 2:17:57 PM
The Philippines said Wednesday that Iran has freed all 18 Filipino crew members of an oil tanker that was seized in the Gulf of Oman in January.
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World
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Region
3/12/2024 4:06:08 PM
Chinese and Russian warships have entered Iranian territorial waters for a joint naval exercise with Iran, state media reported Tuesday.
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World
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Region
3/6/2024 5:16:20 PM
Iranian authorities have confiscated the American cargo of an oil tanker seized last year after US-led sanctions prevented the entry of medication into the Islamic republic, the judiciary said Wednesday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/23/2024 8:20:00 PM
Representatives of Norway, Oman, and Pakistan argued that Israeli occupation was unlawful and unjust on the third day of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion hearings.
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Sports
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World
1/20/2024 3:35:54 PM
Roberto Mancini warned Saudi Arabia against falling victim to the kind of Asian Cup shock suffered by favourites Japan when his side face Kyrgyzstan on Sunday.
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Sports
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World
1/16/2024 10:59:26 PM
Roberto Mancini's Saudi Arabia fought back from a goal down to defeat Oman 2-1 in the dying seconds at the Asian Cup on Tuesday, but only after some VAR confusion.
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Business
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Tech
1/15/2024 4:42:06 PM
Telecom Egypt (TE) has announced a collaboration with Zain Omantel International company (ZOI) to establish a cutting-edge digital corridor that will connect the Mediterranean Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Arabian Gulf region.
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World
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Region
1/11/2024 3:50:51 PM
Iran's navy seized an oil tanker on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman that once was at the centre of a major crisis between Tehran and Washington, officials said, a seizure that further escalates tensions in the Mideast waterways.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
1/4/2024 10:35:35 PM
A right-wing Israeli official has called for starving the 2.4 million Palestinian population in the under-siege Gaza Strip.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
1/4/2024 4:42:20 PM
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman strongly condemned the remarks made by extremist Israeli Ministers of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Bezalel Smotrich advocating for the displacement of Gaza residents, the re-occupation of the strip, and the construction of Israeli settlements.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
11/25/2023 12:20:34 PM
Egypt received five planes carrying humanitarian aid for Gaza from Russia, Oman, UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia at El-Arish Airport on Saturday, according to media reports.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/24/2023 2:26:18 PM
Egypt received 3 humanitarian aid planes from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Oman at El-Arish Airport, en route to the Gaza Strip, according to media reports.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/28/2023 9:59:13 PM
Arab Gulf states Saturday warned Israel against further ground operations in the Gaza Strip, with Saudi Arabia denouncing land incursions as "unjustified" and Oman condemning possible "war crimes".
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/18/2023 4:59:04 PM
Following the events of 7 October and the war on Gaza, reactions from Gulf governments have on the whole been reserved towards Palestine’s offensive against Israel and indifferent to Israel’s destructive bombardment of Gaza. The public, by contrast, has shown strong support for the plight of the Palestinians.
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Egypt
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Society
10/15/2023 10:46:30 PM
McDonald's branches in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman, Turkey, and Pakistan released separate but almost identical statements asserting they belonged to a "100 percent [local] company" in response to boycott calls.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/11/2023 2:17:39 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Oman’s Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik spoke over telephone on Wednesday, discussing their efforts to de-escalate the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
9/26/2023 12:03:00 PM
The Houthi rebel delegation’s visit to Saudi Arabia this week can only be seen as a step on the way to reviving the peace process in Yemen.
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World
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Region
7/5/2023 9:56:59 PM
The US military said Wednesday it had blocked two attempts by the Iranian navy to seize commercial tankers in international waters off Oman, including one case in which the Iranians fired on the tanker.
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