Middle East

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) bombed at dawn today the City of Rafah, Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, and Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the southern part of Gaza City, murdering eight Palestinian civilians and injuring many others. In Rafah, the IOF bombed Khirbet Al-Adas area, north of the …

Saudi Gazette report DOHA — Saudi Minister of Interior Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif met with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani in Doha on Thursday. The visit was in line with the directives of the Saudi leadership. During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral relations and ways …

Saudi Gazette report RIYADH — King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC) of Riyadh has successfully performed the world’s first fully robotic heart transplant on a 16-year-old patient suffering from end-stage heart failure. This globally groundbreaking achievement was made after overcoming the significant medical challenges associated with such procedures, …

The third meeting of the joint committee of experts and representatives of the ministries of justice and interior and relevant authorities in Arab countries kicked off Wednesday at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States in Cairo to study a draft Arab guiding law to …

The Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) Social Responsibility Committee approved, during its meeting held Wednesday via videoconference, the Palestinian Football Association’s proposal to establish a fully equipped mobile field hospital with a capacity of 32 beds, with the aim of improving access to medical services and enhancing humanitarian relief efforts in …

The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) and the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) launched Wednesday the Riyadh Charter on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in the Islamic World, during the Third World Summit on Artificial Intelligence in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. ICESCO said in a statement …

WARSAW — Dmitry Luksha built up muscles breaking rocks in a Belarusian prison camp, put to work alongside men convicted of murder and drug smuggling. The journalist was imprisoned in 2022 and sentenced to four years for his reports on the mass opposition protests of 2020 and his country’s later …

KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian authorities on Wednesday rescued 402 children and arrested 171 suspects after raiding 20 welfare homes linked to an Islamic business group, in which children were exploited and sexually abused, the Associated Press reported quoting the national police chief. Inspector-General of Police Razarudin Husain said the raids …

HONG KONG — A former CIA officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for spying for the Chinese government. Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, was arrested in August 2020 after admitting to an undercover FBI agent that he sold US secrets to China. Ma, a naturalized US citizen …

SYDNEY — Australia has stripped senior defense commanders of military honors over alleged war crimes committed under their watch in Afghanistan. In parliament on Thursday, Defence Minister Richard Marles said they would lose their distinguished service medals, as recommended by a landmark inquiry which alleged there was an unchecked “warrior …