Tag: Middle

 There has been a countdown going on in Israel. It started the minute Joe Biden was inaugurated as president of the United States on January 20. It was not the countdown to a possible showdown with Iran over its continued nuclear program – although the sound of that particularly ...

The World Health Organization said Monday that only around one percent of the wider Middle East region's population had received a first coronavirus vaccine shot.The UN body released its data for what it calls the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) of nearly 600 million people, stretching from Morocco to Pakistan ...

 In one of its final decisions, the Trump administration moved Israel from the purview of the Pentagon’s European Command (EUCOM) to the Area of Responsibility (AOR) of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), which spans the states of the Middle East (except for Turkey and Cyprus, which come under the ...

Bahraini Foreign Minister visited Tel Aviv and PM Netanyahu may visit Manama soon.By Amb Anil TrigunayatMiddle East has been witnessing significant shifts and drifts in the geo-political dynamic as the high-profile intervention of outgoing President Trump winds down. However, the recent visit by Secretary Pompeo to the region was ...

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the Middle East Afghanistan & Pakistan Region Nov. 18 and Nov 25, 2020.This week’s selection includes scenes across the region with photos from Sudan, Israel, Gaza, West Bank and Afghanistan.The gallery ...

Pakistan is also suffering from 'a sense of complacency and fatigue in compliance'. As winter nears and coronavirus cases surge across the Middle East, the regional director for the World Health Organization said on Thursday that the only way to avoid mass deaths is for countries to ...

Author: By ISABEL DEBRE | APID: 1605797116661781600Thu, 2020-11-19 13:34 DUBAI: As winter nears and coronavirus cases surge across the Middle East, the regional director for the World Health Organization said Thursday that the only way to avoid mass deaths is for countries to quickly tighten restrictions and enforce preventative measures. In ...

As winter nears and coronavirus cases surge across the Middle East, the regional director for the World Health Organization said Thursday the only way to avoid mass deaths is for countries to quickly tighten restrictions and enforce preventative measures.In a press briefing from Cairo, Ahmed al-Mandhari, director of WHO’s ...

India’s four-match Test series against Australia will be a contest that the entire cricketing world will watch closely given the rivalry the two teams share. India and Australia along with England are the top Test playing nations in the world and a battle between these two teams in Australian ...

Claude ArpiThe Fifth Plenum of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was held between October 26 and 29 at Beijing's Jingxi Hotel; if one is to believe the Xinhua statement, China is doing very well.A message the CCP wanted to convey: The 360 or so ...