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BUDAPEST: Australian 18-year-old Mollie O’Callaghan overcame “panic” to edge world record holder Sarah Sjostrom and become the youngest women’s 100m freestyle world champion in more than 30 years on Thursday. Lilly King added to her collection of gold medals when she won the women’s 200m brea...

· Friday 24, June 2022 6.37 am

CHICAGO: US President Joe Biden publicly denounced Saudi Arabia as a “pariah” while privately sending back-channel emissaries to try to restore the relationship between the two allies, an influential analyst has told Arab News. Elise Labott, the former global affairs correspondent with the bro...

· Friday 24, June 2022 1.47 am

LOGAN, West Virginia: A Vietnam-era helicopter showcased in action movies crashed on a rural West Virginia road, killing all six people on board, during an annual reunion for helicopter enthusiasts. The Federal Aviation Administration said the Bell UH-1B “Huey” helicopter crashed along Route 1...

· Thursday 23, June 2022 10.09 pm

JEDDAH: Following the announcement by Saudia this week of a new luggage service for pilgrims that means they will not have to haul it to the airport themselves, aviation services business Jeddah Management Company has provided more details about how the service will work and the security precau...

· Thursday 23, June 2022 2.47 am

The role of the news media is supposed to be to provide the basic facts so the public can come to their own conclusions about the rights and wrongs of any issue. But when reporters and their bosses manipulate news content to marginalize certain facts or exaggerate others, emphasizing one side o...

· Wednesday 22, June 2022 10.12 pm

DUBAI: If you’re looking to add something fresh to your playlist, Palestinian-Jordanian singer Dana Salah’s fusion of Arabic, Latin and Western music could be just the thing. Streaming service Spotify announced last month that pop-indie artist Salah, formerly known as King Deco, is the second...

· Tuesday 21, June 2022 2.10 pm

MAKKAH: A medical team at the Maternity and Children Hospital in Makkah saved the life of a 7-month-old American baby after she had swallowed a 5.5-cm needle. The infant came from the US with her family to perform Umrah. She was in critical condition when she arrived at the emergency departme...

· Sunday 19, June 2022 7.03 pm

Huwaida Arraf is doing everything right in her bid to win the Democratic nomination for the newly created 10th Congressional District in Michigan. This district is almost equally divided between Republican and Democratic voters so, if Arraf can win August’s Democratic primary election, she woul...

· Thursday 16, June 2022 10.30 pm

CHICAGO: President Joe Biden needs to find the “will” to do the right thing and push Israelis and Palestinians together to achieve peace, one of his strongest supporters in Congress told Arab News Wednesday. Congresswoman Marie Newman, a Democrat, said the issue of Palestine and Israel is imp...

· Thursday 16, June 2022 4.02 pm

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