Meta apologises for restricting Modi’s post
Meta Platforms’ Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan apologised to India’s information technology minister for briefly restricting a post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in J…
Netanyahu: Israel didn’t agree to Gaza plan
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel did not agree to the US-backed plan for Gaza, even after receiving assurances that an Israeli pullout would only happen…
WHO chief in DR Congo for talks on Ebola
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo for a meeting with President Felix Tshisekedi, as the Ebola ep…
The Omani Lighthouse That Disappears with the Tide
On the coast of Al Sawadi in Barka, a striking lighthouse rises from a rocky island, offering visitors a view that feels almost too beautiful to be real. But reaching it requires m…
From waste to resource
In a country where fresh water has always been scarce, the idea of using water once and letting it go has become difficult to justify. Across Oman, a quieter shift is under way, on…
Türkiye unveils draft law to reintegrate PKK militants
ANKARA: Türkiye’s ruling alliance submitted a draft law to parliament on Wednesday meant to achieve peace with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in part by protecting many former…
China launches satellites from sea
People watch a Smart Dragon-3 (SD-3) carrier rocket carrying Oriental Smart Eye hyperspectral satellites 01 and 02 in Shandong province, China, on Wednesday. Weighing around 300 kg…
Japan’s Nikkei Rises 3.66%
Japan’s Nikkei index rose more than three percent to close at a two-week high today, as artificial intelligence-related shares surged in line with their US counterparts, while inve…
Strong economic backdrop gives new PM ‘room to manoeuvre’
The writer is our foreign correspondent based in the UK.Andy Burnham took office of UK prime minister against the third-strongest economic backdrop of any predecessor in the past 5…
Midweek brief: AI jobs, the Fed and K-Shaped inflation
This week’s market headlines blared earnings season cheer, a historic intervention to prop up Japan’s yen, and the ebb and flow of the Iran war. But strategists looking beyond the…