At least 22 people were killed in a Huthi rebel missile strike on a mosque south of the strategic Yemeni city of Marib, officials said yesterday. 

The United Arab Emirates has approved for emergency use the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine for children aged 5-11, the health ministry said in a statement carried by state media on Monday.

Saudi Aramco’s earnings rose 158 percent year-on-year in the third quarter on higher oil prices and volumes sold as the global economy recovered, it said on Sunday.

The Saudi-led military coalition backing the government in Yemen yesterday said that more than 218 Huthi rebels were killed in air

Lebanon’s government cannot afford to resign over a growing diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia and some Gulf states, a member of a Lebanese crisis group of ministers said on Saturday following a near three-hour meeting over the widening rift.

Saudi Arabia intends to bid to host the Expo 2030 world fair, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Friday, part of the de facto ruler’s push to transform the kingdom’s economy and diversify it away from oil.

The Philippine government said yesterday it will postpone elections key to ending decades of sectarian bloodshed in a troubled Muslim region, with the pandemic and a stalling peace process blamed for the delay.

A child was among 13 people killed when a missile fired by Yemeni rebels struck a tribal leader’s home south of the strategic city of Marib, military and medical sources said yesterday.

The judge investigating last year’s deadly Beirut port blast suspended a summons targeting the former Lebanese premier Hassan Diab Wednesday, after Diab filed a lawsuit against him.

Residents of an Iraqi village have killed 11 people in retaliation for a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State group, an Iraqi security official said.

Angry Sudanese stood their ground yesterday in street protests against a coup, as international condemnation of the military’s takeover poured in ahead of a UN Security Council meeting.

Saudi Arabia pledged more than $1 billion for new environmental initiatives on Monday, as the world’s top oil exporter took further steps to bolster its green credentials ahead of next week’s COP26 climate summit.

Turkey and its Western allies climbed down from a full-blown diplomatic crisis on Monday after foreign embassies said that they

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that he had told his foreign ministry to expel the ambassadors of the United States and nine other Western countries for demanding the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala.

Israel plans to build more residences for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, a government ministry said yesterday, adding to those announced in August by the new ruling coalition. 

Arab nations that normalised ties with Israel last year have “sinned” and should reverse such moves, Iran’s supreme leader Ali

Israel designated six leading Palestinian civil society groups as outlawed “terrorist organisations” Friday in a move swiftly condemned by the Palestinian Authority and international human rights groups. 

Top crude exporter Saudi Arabia will aim to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2060, its de facto ruler Crown Prince

The United Arab Emirates said yesterday it had detained a journalist after comments they made off the air ahead of a televised international football match were hacked and posted online.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen yesterday said it had killed at least 92 Huthi rebels in air strikes on two districts in the past 24 hours near the strategic city of Marib.