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Saudi Arabia's energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman on Monday warned that energy security could not be taken for granted amid the war in the Middle East, saying conditions were testing...

  Indore, India: Abhishek Sharma struck a quick 69 before Arshdeep Singh's three wickets helped India to a 14-run win over the West Indies in the third T20 international on Sunday. Opener...

 A UN global poverty index has risen for the first time since its creation in 2010, bringing the number of people affected to 1.2 billion, the United Nations Development Programme reported Monday. In...

 A fresh Ansar Allah attacks hit Riyadh's international airport on Sunday, killing one person and wounding 11 others, a day after another deadly attack claimed by the Yemeni group forced...

SHANGHAI: France's world number 56 Arthur Gea stunned Ben Shelton in the third round of the Shanghai Masters on Sunday as the US Open finalist became the biggest casualty of the event so far. Top...

Riyadh:  The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has confirmed that King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh was subjected to a new attack on Sunday...

Islamabad: Pakistan placed a northern province under emergency rule on Sunday, the president's office said, following anti-government demonstrations there and militant violence in the northwest....

 Yemen's Ansar Allah on Sunday warned passengers against using Saudi airports after an attack on the airport in the capital Riyadh left 12 people dead and hundreds wounded. "The Yemeni armed...

 The US embassy in Saudi Arabia on Sunday said staff working in the kingdom would now be required to request permission to use airports in the cities of Jeddah and Dammam, days after a similar order...

Schools in Riyadh will move to remote learning for a week, according to an email sent Sunday to parents citing an order from the education ministry, following the deadly attacks on the capital's...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Donald Trump about Iran's position on a possible Mideast peace deal, the Kremlin said Saturday. The Kremlin said Tehran's stance was...

Jerusalem:  One year after US President Donald Trump declared the war in Gaza to be over, few of the long-term promises of the ceasefire have come to fruition. Here is a list of some of the key...

Penonomé, Panama: A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked Panama on Friday, collapsing buildings and roads in the center of the country and injuring at least 27 people, with no deaths reported....

SHANGHAI: Novak Djokovic went down in straight sets to Hubert Hurkacz on Friday, exiting the Shanghai Masters in his first match after memorably winning the China Open this week. Big-serving Hurkacz,...

BEIJING: Homegrown hero Zheng Qinwen pulled out some of her best tennis to beat Ukraine's Elina Svitolina 6-3, 7-6 (8/6) at the China Open on Friday and storm into a semifinal against...

Riyadh: A Saudia Airlines pilot was killed and an aircraft was damaged in Riyadh airport on Thursday, the company said on Friday, following strikes targeting the facility that were claimed by...

The UK has withdrawn staff and their families from its consulate in East Jerusalem after Israel said it would be closed in retaliation for the UK government’s trade ban with illegal West Bank...

The first commercial flight operated by a foreign airline to fly into Iran since the outbreak of the Middle East war landed on Thursday, state media reported, after the United States granted a...

 El Nino will intensify even more before peaking in December, the United Nations said Thursday, warning it could be among the strongest witnessed since at least 1950. The naturally occurring weather...

Bangladesh has approved a 442-megawatt solar plant on land originally earmarked for a coal-fired power station, as it seeks to boost its renewable energy sources, officials said Thursday. The...