Author: Steven Sahiounie

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has received Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani on the sidelines of the funeral procession of martyred President Ebrahim Raeisi and his associates in the capital Tehran. The meeting took place on Wednesday as millions-strong procession for the late president was underway. Sudani offered Iraq’s condolences to the Iranian leadership, government and nation over the tragic loss. “What we saw in Mr. Raeisi, the martyred president of Iran, was nothing but honesty, sincerity, purity, work and … serving the people,” the top Iraqi official said. “The images I saw on TV today…

Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Mohammed Mustafa, warned of the dangers of Israeli military escalation and colonists’ attacks in the West Bank, as well as on the plans of the Israeli occupation government to impose sanctions on the Palestinian people, leadership and institutions, which would lead to an explosion of the situation and have repercussions on the entire region. During a meeting in Ramallah today with more than 50 members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the State of Palestine and representatives of international organizations and institutions, Mustafa discussed the occupation’s escalated measures in the West…

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has led prayers over the bodies of President Ebrahim Raeisi and his companions in Tehran as millions of people gathered to hold funeral procession. The martyred lost their lives in a tragic helicopter crash in the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan. The mass public received the coffins of the eight victims of the crash at the University of Tehran on Wednesday morning before Ayatollah Khamenei led prayers on the bodies. World leaders, presidents, ambassadors and international personalities as well as high-profile figures of the Axis of Resistance, including Ismail Haniyeh, the political…

Norway will recognize the state of Palestine, according to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre. Gahr Støre said the Scandinavian country will officially recognize a Palestinian state as of May 28. Norway’s recognition of Palestine as a state comes in line with international law and relevant resolutions by the UN Security Council. The territorial demarcation between the state of Palestine and the state of Israel should be based on the pre-1967 borders, i.e. the demarcation line as set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements, with Jerusalem as the capital of both states and without prejudice to a final settlement on borders,…

Saudi Arabia has seen a 20 percent surge in passenger travel figures so far in 2024, the President of the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) Abdulaziz al-Duailej said at the Future Aviation Forum in Riyadh.

More than a dozen of the world’s leading artificial intelligence firms pledged at a global summit on Wednesday to develop and use their technology safely, as concern rises over the lack of safeguards for ChatGPT-style AI systems.

KARACHI: The Competition Commission of Pakistan has granted a time-bound exemption on relevant clauses of a product supply agreement between Saudi oil giant Aramco and Gas & Oil Pakistan Ltd.,  known as GO Petroleum, for the import and sale of petrol and diesel products to Pakistan, the CCP said on Tuesday.

The EU says the law will protect citizens from AI’s dangers while harnessing the technology’s potential in Europe

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s point-of-sales spending registered a 6.9 percent decline in the third week of May, compared to the previous seven days, reaching SR11.65 billion ($3.11 billion), official figures showed. 

RIYADH: Net profit of banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council region surged by 10.5 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024 to $14.4 billion, an analysis showed.