Nairobi: Over 30,000 people in South Sudan’s war-zone regions face death by starvation, the United Nations said Thursday, warning that tens of thousands more are on the brink of famine.While an official famine has not been declared, the report describes the worst conditions yet seen in a 22-month civil war marked by atrocities and accusations of war crimes, including the blockading of food supplies.“At least 30,000 people are living in extreme conditions and are facing starvation and death,” the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN children’s agency UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a joint statement.Those worst affected are in the northern battleground state of Unity, once the country’s key oil producing region, but now scene of some of the heaviest fighting, including the mass abduction and rape of women and children.Some 3.9 million people are in crisis...
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday appointed Prince Abdullah bin Faisal bin Turki as its new ambassad...
JEDDAH: The state prosecutor has called on the courts to sentence 16 people to death if they are fou...
RIYADH: Shoura Council members have called for an investigation into the reasons why 86,000 housemaids ran away from their employers in one year alone. “This is a serious problem which has adverse effects to the local economy and security as well,” the Shoura members said.Abdullah Al-Otaibi, vice president of the health committee, suggested the formation of a special committee to study the recruitment file and make recomm...
MOSCOW: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman received a phone call from Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday following Putin’s Tuesday meeting with Syria’s President Bashar Assad in Moscow, the Kremlin said. “The discussion on the issue of Syria continued,” the Kremlin said in a statement. “The Russian leader informed the king about the results of Assad’s visit to Russia.” Meanwhile, Russia announced tha...

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RIYADH: President of Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage Prince Sultan bin Salman has said that he is looking forward to launching awareness campaigns regarding proper care for mosques across the Kingdom in the near future, in collaboration with the Masjidona Charity. The issue and it...
RIYADH: Health Minister Khalid Al-Falih said on Tuesday that the Gulf countries must make concerted efforts to combat diabetes and obesity in the region.The minister made this recommendation while inaugurating the International Conference on Countering Diabesity in Gulf countries at the King Faisal Conference Hall in Riyadh...
JEDDAH: Principals of nearly 40 schools in the Kingdom affiliated with the New Delhi-based Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will meet in Jeddah for a three-day annual conclave beginning on Saturday, to discuss academic progress, high teacher turnover and other critical issues.The conference is being hosted this y...
RIYADH: The new SR230 million hotel project to provide financial support for the King Salman Center for Disability Research (KSCDR) would be completed in just under two years, said Prince Sultan bin Salman here Tuesday.Chairing the seventh general assembly meeting of the KSCDR board of trustees here, Prince Sultan, who is a...
RIYADH: Two suspects have been held in connection with two separate murders in the capital last week.Riyadh police spokesman Col. Fawaz Al-Maiman said one man in his thirties is being held for allegedly killing his brother during a dispute. The second killing occurred in Al-Kharj when two parties were involved in a scuffle...
RIYADH: Victims of defamation through social network media, including video clips, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram can file a complaint with the police station located within the jurisdiction of the victim’s place of residence, according to a local attorney.According to him, the penalty was codified within the pro...
RIYADH: Private school education standards are dropping because there are too many junior teachers being employed, according to the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI).Othman Al-Qasabi, chairperson of the RCCI’s private education committee, said that the committee has urged the Education Ministry to ensure experi...
JEDDAH: The Special Criminal Court in Riyadh on Tuesday jailed a citizen for over 13 years for sedition including calling for protests, insulting scholars and judges and labeling the Kingdom a repressive police state.It its preliminary verdict, the court ruled that the man had attempted to create chaos and disrupt the count...
RIYADH: Senior officials from the Ministries of Education and Health, including the respective ministers, reviewed the progress they have made in offering 20,000 scholarships for medical students to study abroad.The meeting held on Tuesday was a follow-up to the agreement signed between Education Minister Azzam Al-Dakhil an...
JEDDAH: Al-Amal Hospital in Jeddah receives between four and nine people a day seeking help for addiction.Of this number, there are between one and two women seeking assistance, a source at the hospital was quoted as saying in a local publication recently. There are no accurate figures for the number of addicts nationwide,...
JEDDAH: Three of the four women who ran away from a shelter in Jeddah have been found, according to the Social Affairs Ministry.Abdullah Al-Tawi, director of the ministry in Makkah and its media spokesman, said Wednesday the police assisted in finding the women, and that the search continues for the fourth person.He said he...
RIYADH: The intense competition among private media houses to publish stories on terrorism, and sensationalistic reporting, is inadvertently helping extremists groups, particularly in getting their messages to susceptible young people.This was the opinion expressed by Maj. Gen. Saleh Al-Malik, assistant professor at the Nai...
JEDDAH: The number of artisans, both male and female, in the Kingdom has reached 9,240, 12 percent of whom are in the Eastern Province, according to Abdullatif Al-Banyan of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTNH) in the Eastern Province.During a meeting of the National Program for Handicrafts, in whic...

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JERUSALEM: A Jewish Israeli man was shot and killed in a scuffle with Israeli so...

DUBAI: Qatar has suggested it could intervene militarily following Russia’s inte...

PARIS: Kuwait signed 2.5 billion euros ($2.8bn) worth of military fixed and prov...

RAMALLAH: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under fire after su...

TUNIS: Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid announced that he had dismissed Justi...

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LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron hopes to discuss the fight against...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark: A knife-wielding masked man stabbed four people Thursday at...

LONDON: Britain is not trying to obtain a special deal for the City of London as...

WASHINGTON: US Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he would not run for p...

MANILA: Two Chinese diplomats in the Philippines were killed and the consul-gene...

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HONG KONG: Taiwan’s Lu Wei-chih, who almost quit golf three years ago after bein...

THE HAGUE: Dutch football great Johan Cruyff, regarded as one of the world’s gre...

RIO DE JANEIRO: Neymar has been recalled for Brazil’s 2018 World Cup qualifiers...

MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic struggled as Paris Saint-Germai...

JEDDAH: ELAF Group showed its might by burying the opposition with a blitzkrieg...

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BRUSSELS: The European Commission has ruled that Starbucks and Fiat benefited from illegal tax deals with the Dutch and Luxembourg governments, in cases with major implic...
LAGUNA BEACH, US: A new Facebook feature that quickly displays news stories shared by friends at the leading social network arrived on iPhones on Tuesday and was heading for Android-powered devices.“We are excited to get this program going,” Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox said during an on-stage chat at a WSJDLive...
RIYADH: Riyadh will host the 4th edition of Saudi-US Business Forum early next year, said Douglas J. Wallace, commercial counselor, US Embassy in Riyadh.It is going to take place for the first time in Saudi Arabia after three successful editions of the joint forum were held in the US cities of Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angel...
NEW YORK: Boeing earnings soared in the third quarter and the company hiked full-year forecasts Wednesday as aircraft deliveries picked up to record levels on its huge backlog of orders.Boeing reported that revenues for the period came in at $25.85 billion, up 8.7 percent from a year ago, translating into net earnings of $1...
DUBAI: Gulf economies need to adjust to the “new reality” of oil prices expected to remain low for some time, the International Monetary Fund says, recommending spending cuts and income diversification.But the GCC states remain in a strong position to make the necessary adjustments thanks to the large financial reserves the...
GENEVA: Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse has unveiled a massive strategy shift entailing some 5,000 job cuts and a plan to raise more than $6.0 billion.Following the announcements, Credit Suisse saw its share price plunge 4.70 percent in mid-morning trading, as the Swiss stock exchange’s main SMI index was down just 0.67 p...
TOKYO: Toyota said it was recalling 6.5 million vehicles worldwide over a power window glitch that presented a fire risk, the latest in a string of such moves by the Japanese auto giant.In recent months, Toyota has recalled nearly 10 million vehicles outfitted with defective air bags that have been linked to several deaths...
RIYADH: Top Saudi economic experts have expressed strong warnings against continued oil consumption for electricity generation and water desalination. According to a statistics, about 4.2 million barrels of oil are consumed per day and the figure expected to increase to 9.5 million barrels in 2035. The experts warned that t...
TOKYO: Honda said it would put a commercialized self-driving car on the road by 2020, challenging rivals Toyota and Nissan which are also betting on the future of autonomous vehicles.The announcement, ahead of the Tokyo Motor Show next week, comes as Japan’s auto giants step on the accelerator in a bid to race past overseas...
NEW YORK: Yum Brands, the owner of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, has announced it is splitting off its $6.9 billion China business into a separate company.The spinoff will be named Yum China, and focus on the US company’s huge but struggling restaurant business in the country.The rest of the global business, which currently...
 
 

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JEDDAH: The number of artisans, both male and female, in the Kingdom has reached 9,240, 12 percent of whom are in the Eastern Province, according to Abdullatif Al-Banyan of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTNH) in the Eastern Province.
During a meeting of the National Program for Handicrafts, in which 60 people from...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY »

NEW YORK: Apple Inc. told a US judge that accessing data stored on a locked iPhone would be “impossible” with devices using its latest operating system, but the company has the “technical ability” to help law enforcement unlock older phones.
Apple’s position was laid out in a brief filed late Monday, after a federal magistrate judge in Broo...

FASHION »

Young Saudi fashion designer Safiah Alaquil is a promising name in the fashion industry. Here brand ‘Badawiah’ is inspired from cultures and traditions of different countries. She uses the traditional craftsmanship of Saudi Arabia and combines it with modern and ethnic fashion. With this project she also aims to support children in need using ha...

TRAVEL »

RIYADH: Riyadh was ranked among the top 10 destinations within the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for Muslims traveling for shopping purposes, according to a report.

The report was released by MasterCard and CrescentRating just ahead of the upcoming Global Islamic Summit to be held in Dubai.
The report was based on the...

FOOD & HEALTH »

RIYADH: Health Minister Khalid Al-Falih said on Tuesday that the Gulf countries must make concerted efforts to combat diabetes and obesity in the region.The minister made this recommendation while inaugurating the International Conference on Countering Diabesity in Gulf countries at the King Faisal Conference Hall in Riyadh.Following the inaugural ceremony, the minister also opened a medical exhibition within the same premises. The exhibition, which will run concurrently with the conference, will be attended by organizations from the public and private sector who are engaged in the treatment of diabetes and obesity.The three-day conference aims to review the latest scientific findings in...
It is totally normal for babies to be chubby but it all depends on what one means to be fat. Studies show that obese babies or babies who quickly gain weight are more likely to become obese later in life.If mothers are concerned about their baby’s weight, they should consult their baby’s pediatrician. Growth, development and weight are great topics to discuss during routine baby exams. “The path toward obesity actually begins in the womb, with research showing babies born to very obese mothers have already begun to accumulate fat around their stomachs,” said dietitian Raneem Abdulmajeed. “There are two reasons why babies are born obese. DNA is the first one. Larger adults are more likely to...
In part 6, I went through the important aspects and benefits of night sleep and maintaining regular biological clock rhythm in order to keep the body equilibrium, healthy brain responses, good performance, increased productivity, and stable moods. I also explained how the protein Toll-like receptors 9 (TLR9) are stimulated by sufficient quality night sleep in order to make the body fight infections and bacteria. This built-in protective process is usually disrupted when the biological rhythm is disturbed by sleep deprivation or jetlag, leaving the body defenseless and exposed to infections and health complications. With this finding in mind, researchers believe that drugs should be given to...

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ABU DHABI: Some of the biggest names in Emirati cinema are coming together to judge the next generation of regional film...
NEW YORK: Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o will make the leap to Broadway this winter, bringing the harrowing play “Eclipsed” to the Great White Way.The play by Danai Gurira about how some women might endure captivity and regular rape in squalid, harrowing conditions is currently in the middle of a sold-out run downtown at The Public Theater. It closes there Nov. 29.It then jumps to the Golden Theatre, with previews beginning Feb. 23.Nyong’o (“12 Years A Slave“) portrays a teenager who finds herself enslaved in a rebel compound during a bloody civil war in 2003 Liberia.A graduate of the Yale...
LONDON: In his five decades seducing cinemagoers, James Bond has foreshadowed social revolutions and the rise of multinational terrorist organizations, turning into a popular culture icon along the way.And with his 24th silver-screen assignment “Spectre” due to premiere on Oct. 26, the British spy seems more popular than ever.His last outing in “Skyfall” took over $1 billion at the box office.Despite the flurry of speculation about whether a female Bond or a black Bond could spruce up the brand, it seems to be working well just as it is.Experts put Bond’s longevity down to an age-old...

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