Author: Steven Sahiounie

Dmitry Zhirnov noted that economic relations between Russia and Afghanistan, as well as the volume of trade between the countries are growing

Chinese exports to Russia dropped by 0.8% to $51.6 bln in the first half of the year, while imports grew by 3.9% to $65.2 bln

The widespread outage in the Microsoft Azure cloud service, caused by a faulty update by the CloudStrike software firm, affected around 8.5 devices based on Windows operating systems, Microsoft reported in its blog.

RIYADH: Investor confidence in UAE’s energy startups surged as they secured $30 million in the first half of 2024, surpassing the $24 million raised throughout 2023, an analysis showed.

RIYADH: The UAE’s debt capital market outstanding surged by 11.8 percent annually to $281 billion in the first half of this year, with 71.5 percent of US-denominated dollars, a new report has revealed.

RIYADH: When Saudi Arabia launched the General Entertainment Authority in 2016, skeptics were doubtful about its outcome as the Kingdom was just taking its nascent steps in the sector. 

RIYADH: The percentage of Saudi households owning a home reached 63.74 percent at the end of 2023, an increase of 16.7 percent compared to 2016, according to a new report.

RIYADH: The International Monetary Fund has welcomed recent recalibrations and adjustments by Saudi Arabia on some of its megaprojects under Vision 2030.

The official spokesman for the presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeineh,today said that the Palestinian people and their leadership, represented by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. Abu Rudeineh affirmed, “There will be no legitimacy for anyone in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, or Jerusalem, neither the occupation nor anyone else, nor any legitimacy for any step on Palestinian land that was not accepted by our people and its leadership.” He affirmed that the leaked news indicates that Washington is discussing plans for the future of the Gaza Strip with some parties will not have…

Hamas welcomed the advisory opinion presented by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to the United Nations General Assembly, which the group noted reaffirmed the “illegitimacy of the Zionist occupation.” In a statement, Hamas announced that this decision “puts the international system before the necessity of immediate action to end the occupation.” It called on the UN General Assembly and the Security Council to take the necessary measures to end the occupation. The movement also called on the international community to arm itself with these resolutions, override the American will, and work to “compel the fascist occupation to implement them and comply…