1stHeadlinesBreaking News Headlines
The Asian Football Confederation has endorsed Gianni Infantino for another term as FIFA president. His re-election could be secured with the AFC’s support.
The UAE’s Ministry of Climate Change and Environment reported an oil spill affecting beaches in Umm Al Quwain. The affected areas have been closed temporarily as technical teams address the issue.
RIYADH: Coalition forces intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by Yemen's Houthi militia toward Riyadh early Friday, the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen said. In a post on X, coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki said the missile was shot down shortly after 4 a.m. Earlier, at around 1…
Oil prices were little changed in early Asian trade on Friday, after rising 4 percent to a five-month high in the previous session due to concern of further energy supply disruption after Houthi attacks on top exporter Saudi Arabia. Brent crude futures was down 21 cents, or 0.2 percent, at $112.96 a barrel as of…
RIYADH: Of the 980,000 migrants deported during the first 18 months of US President Donald Trump’s second term, only 20 percent were individuals with a criminal conviction, according to a report published on Thursday by the Migration Policy Institute think tank. The study, authored by Marc Rosenblum, a former head of…
Thousands of Venezuelans participated in nationwide protests demanding elections while the ruling party held a separate march.
The Saudi medical charity Al-Balsam Association conducted 112 heart-related surgeries, including 28 open-heart and 84 catheterization procedures, in Abuja, Nigeria, from October 13-18. The mission, which faced travel disruptions due to militia attacks and operational challenges at hospitals, involved 10 Saudi…
NEW YORK: A New York woman accused of receiving weapons training from the Daesh group was tricked by her father into traveling to Syria, where she became an unwilling teen bride to a militant fighter, her lawyer told a jury Thursday. Halima Salman, a US citizen born in Brooklyn, was 17 when her father took the family…