International

SPA/APP Riyadh: The competitions of the Saudi Dakar Rally 2024 kicked off in the AlUla governorate. The 46th Dakar Rally is being hosted by the Kingdom for the fifth time in a row and will run until January 19, featuring six categories of…

AFP/APP Japan: A woman in her 90s trapped for five days under the rubble of a huge earthquake in central Japan was rescued against the odds, but snow and storms were expected to complicate relief efforts on Sunday. At least 126 people…

AFP/APP Newton: Donald Trump hit the campaign trail Saturday in the first-in-the-nation presidential nominating state of Iowa, vowing to win "for the third time" as Americans marked the anniversary of the deadly assault on the US Capitol…

AFP/APP Kabul: In Kabul, grief and sorrow envelop the city as the Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility for a devastating blast that took the lives of two individuals and left 14 others wounded on a bus in a predominantly…

SPA/APP Madinah: The number of existing electronic-commerce records in Madinah reached 1,834 during the 4th quarter of 2023, registering a slight increase of 2.6 percent from the 1,792 records for the third quarter, according to official…

AFP/APP Shiroma: In the aftermath of the recent earthquake that struck Japan, the nation grapples with the somber reality as the death toll continues to rise, reaching a devastating count of 126 lives lost. The death toll from the New…

News Desk Colorado: Randy Roedema, a former Aurora Police Department officer, has been sentenced to 14 months in a county jail for his involvement in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. McClain, a young unarmed Black man, died after…

AFP/APP Baku: Global climate talks will be led for the second year in a row by a man with ties to the oil industry, after Azerbaijan named a minister to preside over the November COP29 meeting. Mukhtar Babayev, currently minister for…

AFP/APP London: On a grey, cloudy morning in December, London police deployed a state-of-the-art AI-powered camera near the railway station in the suburb of Croydon and quietly scanned the faces of the unsuspecting passersby. The use of…

AFP/APP Washington: President Joe Biden will try to fire up his 2024 campaign Friday with a major speech warning that democracy is at risk from Donald Trump, three years after the January 6 US Capitol attack. Either trailing or neck…