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Cycling from Musandam to Salalah

Nearly 50% of target population vaccinated in Oman

Did you get to taste Jabal Akhdar pomegranates this year?

Meet the tree man of oman

Confident Oman take on Saudi Arabia

Surreal Wadi Darbat

Oil & Gas sector Omanisation rises to 85%

Ain Ghaidh- Salalah’s hidden gem

The Libera tanker is moored off Beirut port on Friday. Lebanon has been suppressing fuel prices by providing dollars at subsidised exchange rates. -- AFP

Lebanon raises gasoline prices by more than 37% effectively reducing subsidy

BEIRUT: Lebanon's new government raised gasoline prices on Friday, cutting a subsidy that Prime Minister Najib Mikati has said is unaffordable as he advances plans to address a devastating financial crisis.The government also signed a new contract...

Awatef Rasheed speaks with her supporters in Basra. -- Reuters

Braving intimidation, hundreds of Iraqi women run for parliament

A woman tosses rose petals as people gather to welcome tankers carrying Iranian fuel, upon their arrival from Syria in the city of Baalbeck, in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on Thursday. -- AFP

First shipment of Iranian fuel arrives in Lebanon

Customers view items behind the glass window of a jewellery shop at Tehran's Grand Bazaar. -- AFP

Iran approves J&J Covid shot as fifth wave spreads

Viola Von Cramon speaks to the media after a press conference in Baghdad on Thursday. -- AFP

EU observers call for peaceful Iraq vote

A picture taken at the Kurdish-run Al Hol camp shows families preparing for their released from the camp to return home in Raqqa region. - AFP

Syria 'bleak' with violence upsurge, economic woes: UN

Haider al Lawati Most popular apps in the world... come with a price!

ALI AL MATANI Challenges faced by cement industry

Samuel Kutty Don’t let the virus take away our children’s happiness

The Flying Tigers operated out of Burma in the early 1940s in support of Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek against the Japanese, conducting dangerous missions over occupied China and shooting down hundreds of enemy bombers. -- AFP

'Flying Tiger' ace WW2 pilot dies at 103

Canada's tight election heads into final stretch

Trudeau under fire over high inflation as election race tightens

Nicholas weakens into tropical storm, battering Texas, Louisiana

Biden hits campaign trail ahead of California election

Moroccan king names billionaire Akhannouch as PM

Guinea consolidates takeover with military governors

Guinea coup leader bars foreign travel for govt officials

Attempted coup throws Guinea into turmoil

Creaking Cairo cedes to high-tech new capital

Members of a local election commission sort ballots in the far eastern city of Vladivostok on Friday. -- AFP

Pro-Putin ruling party seeks majority as Russians vote

UK to simplify international travel rules

Russian space movie crew set for blast-off

UK's PM reshuffles cabinet for post-pandemic recovery

UK to start Covid vaccine booster programme

Taliban fighters roaming around the streets of Kabul. -- Reuters

Taliban replaces women's ministry with moral police

KABUL: Workers in the Afghan capital Kabul replaced signs for the country's women's ministry with those for the Taliban's moral police on Friday, as female former employees of the department said they...

People cut a 71-kilogram cake to celebrate Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 71st birthday at an event in Ahmedabad. -- Reuters

Modi turns 71 with 50 m 'thank you' cards, 18 m Covid-19 jabs

Chinese astronauts pose after landing in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. -- Reuters

Chinese astronauts return after three months in space

A missile is seen launched during a drill of the Railway Mobile Missile Regiment in North Korea. -- Reuters

N Korea tests new railway-borne missile system

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte arrives with daughter and first lady Sara Duterte-Carpio. -- Reuters

Duterte daughter to seek re-election as mayor

Australia has scrapped a $66 billion contract it had with France to build submarines, replacing it with nuclear-powered subs using US and British technology. -- AFP

Australia to get nuclear subs in new US, British partnership

SYDNEY: The United States announced a new alliance with Australia and Britain to strengthen military capabilities in the face of a rising China, with Canberra to get a nuclear submarine fleet and...

Policer offers patrol on their service horses in front of the Sydney Opera House amid Covid-19 pandemic. - AFP

Vaccinated Sydney residents picnic as lockdown rules relaxed

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

New Zealand unable to keep supermarket attacker locked up

A police officer walking with a gun outside a shopping mall following a knife attack in Auckland. -- Reuters

Attacker shot dead after NZ supermarket knife rampage

Residents exercising along the Sydney Harbour during the lockdown. -- AFP

Australia logs record Covid cases, driven by New South Wales

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