Muscat: Oman said it received 10 inmates from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay Monday, as outgoing President Barack Obama looks to reduce the number of prisoners there before leaving office. Neither the sultanate’s foreign ministry nor the US defence official who confirmed the transfer w

Dubai: Thick fog caused visibility to drop to less than 50 metres in most parts of the UAE on Thursday morning, delaying more than a hundred flights and causing accidents. Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and some western areas experienced extremely poor visibility on Thursday morning, forecasters from

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia and Lebanon agreed Tuesday to hold talks on restoring a $3-billion military aid package, opening a “new page” in relations, a Lebanese official source said. “The blockage is lifted,” said the official in the delegation of Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who held talks over lu

New Delhi [India]: The Saudi Arabian Government on Wednesday increased the quota of Indian pilgrims visiting Makkah and Madina by 34, 500 for 2017. The decision came after Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Saudi Minister of Hajj and Umrah Dr. Muhammad Saleh Benten signed an agreement at Jedd

Dubai: Death due to a Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) may soon be avoidable in Dubai as Dubai Health Authority (DHA) launched the Dubai Heart Safest City Project by 2020 to be able to save 65 per cent lives of those suffering cardiac arrest. By 2020, Dubai will join the rank of two other cities to be

Dubai Police on Thursday announced new speed limits on certain roads across the emirate. According to Colonel Saif Al Mazroui, the Director of the General Directorate of Traffic at Dubai Police, the speed limit from the first interchange of the Dubai-Al Ain road right up to th

Raheel retired as the army chief in November and has been succeeded by General Qamar Javed Bajwa. Islamabad : General Raheel Sharif, the former Pakistani army chief, will now head the Saudi Arabia-led 39-nation military coalition formed to serve as a platform for security cooperation and comb

Officials will meet for the first India-UAE Strategic Dialogue here on January 20 for preliminary talks on defence, security and investment, sources say. The talks come 18 months after the two nations announced a strategic partnership during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Abu Dhabi and a we

Dubai:The United Arab Emirates has ordered the removal from a textbook of the term “Persian Gulf” for the waterway that is the subject of a bitter naming dispute with Iran, a newspaper reported Monday. The UAE education ministry stepped in after complaints that the book was using that name instea

RIYADH: Saudi security forces on Saturday shot and killed one of the suspected militants Tayea Salem Yaslam Al-Sayari, who was wanted for plotting the attack on the Prophet’s (PBUH) Mosque in Madinah  last July. The two suspected militants were killed during a police operation in the north of the

Arab News | JAn 9, 2017 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia appointed a new chairman of Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) by royal decree on Monday. Ghassan bin Abdulrahman Al-Shabal was appointed chairman of the board of directors of the state-owned airline, said Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Al-Shabal will replace

DUBAI: Dubai has once again mesmerised the world with a magnificent New Year’s Eve fireworks spectacle by Emaar Properties, bidding farewell to 2016 and welcoming in 2017 in resplendent style. Hundreds of thousands of spectators from all over the world joined the celebrations in Downtown Dubai, Emaa

Dubai: The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) will continue accepting health insurance applications in 2017 due to the massive rush by residents to buy insurance packages in the last few days of the year. This is the second extension of deadline by the authorities in order to give enough time to the rema

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has invited regional rival Iran to discuss a return of its nationals to next year’s hajj after Iranians were excluded from the pilgrimage following a major diplomatic row, reports said Friday. The Al-Hayat daily reported that Riyadh’s pilgrims minister Mohammed Bentin had ope

Dubai: An Indian was found murdered outside his shop in Sharjah on Tuesday, the police said. Mohammed Ali, 52, from Kerala, was found in a pool of blood with multiple wounds in Majestic Supermarket of Maysaloon area, the Khaleej Times quoted police officers as saying.  The police was informed ab

JEDDAH  — The fees to be paid by expatriates for their dependents will be effective from July 2017 and will be collected along with the fees for Iqama (residence permit) renewal, according to sources at the department of passports (Jawazat).   The sources, however, said the Jawazat is st

Dubai is reportedly planning to spend $35.7 billion to develop its second airport and the Dubai South logistics hub, with the emirate likely to rely on debt funding for a significant part of the financing. Bloomberg reported on Thursday that the investments will be made in Dubai World Central and

A woman police officer was again convicted by the Court of First Instance of theft while on duty and sentenced to three months in jail for stealing a sum of money in dollars, equivalent to Dh 2,000, from a traveller's wallet at Dubai International Airport. This is the second time the court examin