Middle East

Abu Dhabi, Dec 20: Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has hailed the 1.5-million strong Pakistani community in the UAE. This came as he met Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Foreign Minister of Pakistan. He praised the Pakistani community's "great role and active contribution to the growth and prosperity" of the UAE, state news agency wam reported

Abu Dhabi, Dec 18: UAE-based Indian billionaire BR Shetty’s company Finablr Plc is getting ready to selling its business to an Israeli-UAE consortium for $1, capping the collapse of a business that had a market value of 1.5 billion pounds ($2 billion) last December. Finablr, the scandal-marred platform for payments and foreign exchange solutions, announced that it has entered into ‘a definitive

Riyadh, Dec 14: A recent report of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, seen by Okaz/Saudi Gazette, showed that there are 2,225 Saudis who have been employed during the recent period by private sector establishments under a scheme of settling violations imposed on them. These firms took advantage of the violation settlement service, launched by the ministry earlier, in exchange

Kabul, Dec 12: Kabul woke up to a gruesome rocket attack on early Saturday morning with one killed and two wounded. The Interior Affairs Ministry reported that ten rockets were fired from the Lab-e-Jar area in Kabul on various parts of the city, including locations near the airport, Hawashinasi area in PD9, Zan Abad area in PD9, and Khwaja Rawash area in PD15. One person was killed and two were

Dubai, Dec 10: The Makkah Criminal Court on Wednesday issued a new ruling acquitting 13 defendants in the Grand Mosque Crane collapse case, including Saudi Binladin Group, Saudi media such as Okaz/Saudi Gazette reported. In the new verdict, the court said it had found nothing new than what it had earlier ruled in the case. It said it would send a copy of the verdict to the Court of Appeal to

Jerusalem, Dec 9: Israel will receive an initial shipment of Pfizer Inc. coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, a day earlier than first announced. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech last month agreed to provide Israel with 8 million doses of the vaccine, which Britain became the first country to administer on Tuesday. The prime minister’s office said in a

Dubai, Dec 7: Bilateral trade between the UAE and Israel will reach $5 billion as "there are plenty of opportunities", especially in technology, logistics and other industries, senior officials have said. “We estimate at least $5 billion trade in the beginning between the UAE and Israel and it will increase as there are many opportunities. From the technology side, we see huge opportunities. We

Tel Aviv, Dec 6: The European Union has called for a swift probe into the Israeli army's gruesome killing of a 14-year-old Palestinian during protests against the occupying regime. The 27-nation bloc’s delegation to the Israeli-occupied West Bank issued the request in a tweet on Saturday. “Extending our heartfelt condolences to Ali [Abu Alia]'s parents and family. This shocking incident must be

New Delhi, Dec 1: The Government of India is actively working towards the return of its workers back to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain who had lost their jobs and had to be evacuated to India during the Covid pandemic earlier this year, sources told ANI. Thousands of Indians had to leave the UAE as businesses closed and employees were placed on unpaid leave. According to the Consulate

Nicosia, Dec 1: Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, an Iranian Professor of physics who was the brains behind the Project Amad, Tehran's alleged covert programme for building a nuclear bomb, was killed near the city of Absard, 50 miles from Tehran last Friday in an ambush, by highly trained assassins, believed to be members of Mossad, the Israeli spy agency. It is unclear how the attack actually took place, as a