Recent months have welcomed newly opened stores from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. over at Garden Wing at Newport Mall as additions to the long line of designer names and high-end pieces within the expansive integrated resort. Here are the newest places for some well-earned retail therapy. First watch...
WASHINGTON, United States - US President Joe Biden abruptly cancelled plans for a trip Monday to Colorado, the White House announced, fueling speculation that he will soon go to Israel in a show of support as it wages war against Hamas. Biden has been invited to Israel by Prime Minister...
Israel said Monday there was no temporary truce to allow aid in or foreigners out of the Gaza Strip, where desperation was mounting among millions of Palestinians trapped in the heavily bombarded enclave with little food or water. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to Israel Monday...
STRASBOURG, France - European Union lawmakers travelling on a special train from Brussels to the French city of Strasbourg on Monday got an unexpected view of Big Thunder Mountain when they were sent to Disneyland Paris instead. The surprise arrival outside the theme park elicited much mirth from...
CAIRO, Egypt - Leaders in Qatar and Kuwait received invitations Monday for a summit in Cairo to be held on Saturday to "discuss developments and the future of the Palestinian cause and the peace process." State media in both countries announced the invitations a day after Cairo announced its...
HAIFA, Israel - A ship evacuating US nationals from Israel left for Cyprus from the Israeli port of Haifa Monday, an AFP correspondent reported, as war raged between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. With Israel now moving towards a ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave, the...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said he would be heading to the Middle East on Tuesday to try to help negotiate aid access to the Gaza Strip. Griffiths said he was hoping to hear some "good news" later Monday on aid access into the blockaded and besieged...
LONDON, United Kingdom -A UK court on Monday began hearing a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump over a salacious dossier compiled by a former British MI6 agent that contained unproven allegations against the US ex-president. Trump, 77, is suing Christopher Steele and the company he founded, over...
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Kazakh southpaw Janibek Alimkhanuly stopped Germany's Vincenzo Gualtieri in the sixth round on Saturday, Oct. 14, to unify two middleweight world boxing titles in a showdown of unbeaten champions. Kazakh southpaw Janibek Alimkhanuly (AFP) Alimkhanuly kept the World Boxing...
By Dr. QU Dongyu, Director-General Food and Agriculture Organization United Nations (FAO) This year’s World Food Day celebrates one of the planet’s most precious resources: water. It’s essential to life on Earth. It covers the majority of the planet’s surface, makes up over 50...
DOHA, Qatar -- Iran on Sunday warned that any Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip could expand the scope of the conflict elsewhere in the Middle East. Israeli troops manuever a tank near kibbutz Nahal Oz on the border with the Gaza Strip on October 15, 2023. More than one million people have...
This combination photograph created on October 12, 2023 shows (L) a file photograph taken on October 24, 2022 of Israel's former defence minister Benny Gantz in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv, and (R) a file photograph taken on October 12, 2023 of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
