The Milky Way devoured a smaller galaxy about 11.8 billion years ago
WASHINGTON: The Milky Way, a large and spiral-shaped galaxy that is home to hundreds of billions of stars including our sun, has taken a long and complicated path to achieve its…
Urgent call for O+ blood donors
The O+ blood stock is experiencing a significant decrease, and the Department of Blood Bank Services (DBBS) have requested donors to start donating today. The DBBS said there is a…
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Efforts on to contain oil spill from ‘Caroline Bezengi’
MUSCAT: The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology continues its salvage and oil spill containment operations involving the tanker “Caroline Bezengi”, whi…
HM, UAE President discuss relations
His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik on Monday paid a private fraternal visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), during which he held a meeting with Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Na…
Workshop explores private sector opportunities under CEPA
SALALAH: An awareness workshop on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the Sultanate of Oman and the Republic of India, held in the Wilayat of Salalah, e…
Contract signed to establish chemical mixing project
NIZWA: Nizwa Industrial City, affiliated with the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates ‘Madayn’, signed on Monday a long-term investment usufruct contract to establish a pro…
Kushner discusses Gaza plan with Israel’s Netanyahu
TEL AVIV: Donald Trump’s envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Monday, a day after holding a rare meeting with Hamas’…
Ebola outbreak now DR Congo’s deadliest ever
KINSHASA: A fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the country’s deadliest ever after killing more than 2,300 people in three months, government f…
Iran vows offensive if diplomacy with US fails
DUBAI: Iran has decided to shift its policy from defensive to “fully offensive” due to the deadlock in efforts to agree on a permanent end to its war with the United States, a seni…