Ex-Spanish king confirmed to be in UAE amid financial probes
ARITZ PARRA and BARRY HATTON
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FILE - In this Sunday, June 2, 2019 file photo, Spain's former King Juan Carlos waves during a bullfight at the bullring in Aranjuez, Madrid, Spain. Spain's royal household said on Monday Aug. 17...
This has already been dealt with.
In early 2010, the contacts came to halt when the UAE accused Israel of assassinating Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a leader of the militant Palestinian group Hamas, in a hotel room in Dubai, the UAE’s largest city. Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan cut...
Israel will import from UAE free zones, Netanyahu says
Hadeel Al Sayegh, Jon Boyle
AUGUST 17, 2020
DUBAI (Reuters) - Israel will import from free zones in the United Arab Emirates, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview with Sky News Arabia on Monday.
“We know that we will...
Send books to Balochistan, they’re building reading rooms
Muzhira Amin
Aug 17, 2020
The first batch of 500 books has reached Wadh.
Elif Shafak and Paulo Coelho are pretty popular writers in Wadh, Balochistan—which is rather odd since none of their books had ever really been sold there...
Israeli Air Force Jets Touch Down In Germany For Historic Air Combat Exercise
The Israeli F-16 fighters will train alongside Luftwaffe Eurofighters and conduct commemoration flypasts over sites in Dachau and Munich.
THOMAS NEWDICK
AUGUST 17, 2020
Beginning today, Israeli Air Force F-16C/D...
The AK-19: Kalashnikov announces new lightweight assault rifle to be presented at military expo
17 Aug, 2020
Russia’s world famous Kalashnikov Concern weapons factory has announced a brand new, state-of-the-art assault rifle, built for 5.56mm NATO cartridges.
Named AK-19, the latest gun in...
Russia conducts massive military drills in Kaliningrad exclave
Colton Jones
Aug 17, 2020
Russia is holding a massive military exercise in Kaliningrad, a sensitive exclave of Russian territory sandwiched between Poland and the Baltics.
Kaliningrad is a tiny Russian enclave sitting between...
World Muslim Communities Council highlights support for Emirati diplomacy that led to peace treaty between UAE, Israel
ABU DHABI, 17th August, 2020 (WAM) -- The World Muslim Communities Council highlighted its support for the decision by the UAE’s leadership and the efforts of Emirati...
Kamala Harris Appoints Indian-American Sabrina Singh As Her Press Secretary
August 17, 2020
Washington:
Senator Kamala Harris has roped in Indian-American Sabrina Singh, who previously was the spokeswoman of two Democratic presidential candidates, as press secretary for her Democratic vice...
Ahmadi man, sons booked over Eid sacrifice in Toba Tek Singh
17 Aug 2020
TOBA TEK SINGH/SILAKOT: Pirmahal police on Sunday registered a case against three men belonging to the Ahmadi community on the complaint of a religious seminary official over violation of a supposed ban on them following...
Twin suicide blasts kill 7 in Somalia
Mohammed Dhaysane
17.08.2020
MOGADISHU, Somalia
At least seven people were killed and 5 others wounded on Monday in twin suicide bombings targeting a military base in Somalia, officials said.
The fatalities include three soldiers, two suicide bombers...
RAW agent, family arrested in Gujar Khan
August 17, 2020
Law enforcement agencies conducted a raid in Gujjar Khan and arrested an agent of India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) Muhammad Jalal along with his wife and children, sources said on Sunday. The sources maintained that the agencies...
Taliban IED experts blown up by own bomb in a mosque in North of Afghanistan
8/17/2020
A group of Taliban sustained casualties as they were busy manufacturing an improvised explosive device, roadside bomb, in a mosque in North of Afghanistan.
The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the...
Reports: US helicopter attacks Syrian army checkpoint
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BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian state media and an opposition war monitoring group reported that a U.S. helicopter gunship on Monday attacked a Syrian army checkpoint in the country’s northeast, killing one soldier and wounding two others...
Pakistanis protest UAE-Israel deal
Rallies and demonstrations held across country on call from religio-political alliance
Aamir Latif
16.08.2020
KARACHI, Pakistan
Tens of thousands of Pakistanis marched on Sunday against a recent, controversial deal between the United Arab Emirates...
10 women given senior positions at Two Holy Mosques
TAREQ AL-THAQAFI
August 16, 2020
This picture taken on July 24, 2020 ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage season in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca shows a view of the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the centre of the Grand Mosque...
U.S. General: We're Talking to Russia About Syria's Oil
Matthew Petti
August 12, 2020
The U.S. State Department is talking to Russia about Syria’s oil, the top U.S. general in the Middle East said on Wednesday.
U.S. forces are currently helping the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces guard...
Israel bans governor of Jerusalem from entering West Bank for six months
JERUSALEM, Sunday, August 16, 2020 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities banned today evening the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Jerusalem governor, Adnan Ghaith, from entering the West Bank for a period of six months.
The governor...