Millions are at the tent city of Mina where they will spend time before heading to the Arafat plain on Saturday. About one hundred thousand volunteers and officials deployed at different points in the holy sites provided necessary care and support to the guests of God. There were moving scenes […]
RAMALLAH (Reuters) – The Palestinians will not accept anything less than full United Nations membership and do not want an upgrade to an observer state in the world body, the foreign minister said on Thursday. Riyad Al Malki’s remarks suggested the Palestinians would not seek such an upgrade once their […]
by Marc-André Miserez, swissinfo.ch Before he became the king of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej lived an almost ordinary life as a student on Lake Geneva in western Switzerland. A new book, written in French by Swiss journalist and author Olivier Grivat, looks at the adolescence of a shy young man, who […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Many of the 2.5 million pilgrims, who are expected to perform Haj this year, will leave for the Mina valley, located five km east of Makkah, on Thursday evening at the start of the annual pilgrimage. The rest of them will proceed […]
The infantile response from the US and Israel to the decision by UNESCO to give full membership to Palestine is astounding. The Israelis have frozen the transfer of funds to the Palestinian Authority, worth about $100 million a month, and say they will speed up settlements in the West Bank […]
By Hana Namrouqa JORDAN TIMES AMMAN – Work on a major part of the Disi Water Conveyance Project remains suspended for over a month now due to security concerns and recurring armed attacks targeting workers, a source involved in the implementation of the project said on Wednesday. Work on the […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: A total of 177,426 pilgrims from 46 non-Arab African countries have so far arrived in Saudi Arabia to perform Haj, the chairman of the board of directors of the Tawafa Establishment for Non-Arab African Pilgrims announced Tuesday. Abdul Wahid Seifuddin said 142,134 […]
By LARA JAKES | AP BAGHDAD: Iran’s top diplomat on Monday bitingly questioned reported US plans to build up American military forces across Middle East countries after withdrawing from Iraq, calling on Washington to be “more prudent and wise” or risk more unrest in the region. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali […]
By YOUSUF MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS MADINAH: Sick pilgrims who are confined to hospitals in Madinah will be transported to Makkah and the holy sites to perform Haj, head of the follow-up unit at the Haj secretariat in Madinah Abdul Aziz Al-Ayoubi announced Monday. He said a special coordination meeting […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah urged Islamic scholars and preachers on Monday to reach out to non-Muslim communities and said the message of Islam came addressing the whole humanity, not a particular community. “We have to open up to […]
By Khetam Malkawi AMMAN – Higher education experts from Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states have recommended that their countries revise their strategies to give universities more independence. They also called for revising subjects taught in university to align the output of higher education institutions with labour market demands. […]
Niken Prathivi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Vice President Boediono is confident that host Indonesia will be able to perform its best and reach the overall champions target in the 26th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games), which will begin two weeks from now. “I am very certain that with the excellent […]
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Floods that hit Pondok Labu, South Jakarta, on Sunday, are by no means over as the rainy season is expected to peak in January-March, the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) says. More floods are anticipated in the area because Pondok Labu is not only affected by […]
By MUHAMMAD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: A quarter of women surveyed on the Internet by a Jeddah social center have said husbands who perform the Haj alone are being selfish. They said the men should take their wives with them. About a third of the women who answered the […]
The US threat to stop supporting UNESCO financially if it votes for the admission of Palestine as a full member amounts, simply, to blackmail. Washington has been taking an actively hostile position on the Palestinian quest for recognition as an independent state by international organisations; now it is UNESCO’s turn […]
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By AMY TEIBEL | AP ARAB NEWS JERUSALEM: The Palestinian president, in a remarkable assessment delivered on Israeli TV, has said the Arab world erred in rejecting the United Nations’ 1947 plan to partition Palestine into a Palestinian and a Jewish state. The Palestinian and Arab refusal to accept a […]
By NADEEN IBRAHIM | ARAB NEWS MADINAH: A large number of women Haj guides as well as women pilgrims took part in the Second Women Cultural Forum in Madinah on Thursday. Inaugurating the gathering, Yousuf bin Ahmad Hawala, chairman of the board of directors of the National Organization for Pilgrims’ […]
By Muath Freij JORDAN TIMES DEAD SEA – Jordanians and tourists came together at the Dead Sea on Thursday to enjoy the balmy weather and watch live performances at the opening of Dead Sea Nights. The event, which is open every Thursday and Friday from 6:00pm to midnight until November […]
AMMAN (Petra) – The first group of the medical, technical and administrative staff of the Jordan military field hospital to Libya left the Kingdom on Saturday. The medical equipment and the rest of the staff will be arriving at the hospital over the next two days. The hospital, dispatched upon […]