MUMBAI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held his first election rally on Friday since the coronavirus took hold in the country in March, drawing thousands of cheering supporters standing shoulder to shoulder and ignoring social distancing rules.Other politicians including Congress party’s Rahul Gandhi also attended big rallies in the eastern state of Bihar, where local…
Read MoreCOURBEVOIE, France -Friday 23 October 2020 [ AETOS Wire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)– Didier Fontaine will join IDEMIA on 2nd November as Chief Operating Officer (COO) in charge of Finance, Legal, Strategy, M&A, IT and Purchasing. Didier Fontaine comes with over 25 years of top management experience with several major international groups. After a career as…
Read MoreCAIRO: Sudanese protesters took to the streets in the capital and across the country on Wednesday over dire living conditions and a deadly crackdown on demonstrators in the east earlier this month. The protests came on the anniversary of a 1964 uprising that ended six years of military rule. Sudan is currently ruled by a joint…
Read MoreEmma Roberts shows off Lebanese label as she reveals why she blocked her mother on Instagram DUBAI: US actress Emma Roberts made an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” this week, where she opened up about her new film, pregnancy and how she wound up in an Instagram feud with her mother. For the occasion, Roberts, who…
Read MoreYesterday the Women20 (W20) Summit was launched in Saudi Arabia ahead of G20 meeting next month. Amnesty International addressed an open letter to all the individuals and organizations attending the Summit. It said: We are writing this open letter to raise Amnesty International’s serious concerns relating to the ongoing detention of women human rights defenders…
Read MoreLONDON: Osama Bin Laden’s former spokesman is set to be returned to the UK from the US, having been granted political asylum as part of his extradition terms eight years ago. Adel Abdel Bary, 60, originally from Egypt, was arrested by UK police in 1999 and extradited to the US in 2012 for his role…
Read MoreBEIRUT: Lebanon’s security chief has been forced to delay his return from an official visit to the US after testing positive for coronavirus following a series of White House meetings. Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, director-general of the Lebanese Public Security, met with US officials, including David Hale, the undersecretary of state for political affairs; CIA director…
Read MoreDUBAI: October is breast cancer awareness month and in light of this, a number of regional labels are showing their support by way of charitable initiatives that see a portion of the proceeds of their sales being donated to different organizations. Among those brands is the rising Saudi label Honayda. “To all the women who…
Read MoreYesterday Saudi Arabia failed in its attempt to win a place on the 47-seat Human Rights Council. The result is a severe blow to the country’s efforts to improve its image in the wake of the admitted killing of the Saudi citizen and Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi. Their heinous human rights crimes in Yemen also contributed…
Read MoreRussia ready to accept US proposal to extend nuclear pact, Washington prepared to meet ‘immediately’ MOSCOW: Russia said Tuesday it’s ready to accept a US proposal to freeze the number of nuclear warheads and extend the two nations’ last arms control pact for one year. The statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry marks a shift in…
Read MoreNICOSIA: Turkish Cypriots in breakaway northern Cyprus on Sunday narrowly elected right-wing nationalist Ersin Tatar, backed by Ankara, in a run-off poll, at a time of heightened tensions in the eastern Mediterranean.Tatar, 60, clinched his surprise victory in a second round of presidential elections, winning 51.7 percent of the vote, official results showed.He edged out…
Read MoreDUBAI: With their chic, modest style and unprecedented flair for makeup, a new crop of Instagram stars are irrevocably redefining the hijab. Rana Ellithy, who recently popped up on our radar, is certainly one to watch. The 21-year-old became an Instagram sensation in less than a year, garnering almost 100,000 followers in mere months after…
Read MoreYesterday Saudi Arabia failed in its attempt to win a place on the 47-seat Human Rights Council. The result is a severe blow to the country’s efforts to improve its image in the wake of the admitted killing of the Saudi citizen and Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi. Their heinous human rights crimes in Yemen also contributed…
Read MorePARIS: French First Lady Brigitte Macron will self-isolate for seven days after coming into contact with someone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19, Macron’s office said on Monday.”Brigitte Macron was in contact on Thursday Oct. 15 with a person who has been tested positive for COVID-19 this Monday, Oct. 19, and showing symptoms of the…
Read MoreJERUSALEM: Israel started “cautiously” emerging from a second coronavirus lockdown Sunday after a month of tight restrictions, reopening preschools, kindergartens, beaches and national parks, with numbers of new infections falling.Public radio said about a million young children were set to return to kindergartens and other facilities on Sunday.Talia Zinkin, 40, said she “hesitated a lot”…
Read MoreCHICAGO: Floating along on the Santa Ana winds into the Mojave Desert is award-winning author Laila Lalami’s “The Other Americans,” a novel in which a Moroccan-American family attempts to move forward with life when tragedy strikes and harmful secrets begin to unravel. Driss Guerraoui, an American originally from Casablanca, Morocco, is killed in a hit-and-run…
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