White House press secretary Katie Zacharia fired after five days on the job

Trump advised Katie Zacharia to reconsider her press secretary role due to media backlash over her credentials.

Yemen says 2 missiles hit Aden airport; no casualties reported

LONDON: Two missiles fired by the Iran-backed Houthi militia struck the airport in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on Friday night, as a passenger plane prepared to take off, the country’s information minister said. No casualt…

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How Red Sea Global plans to prove a 30% net conservation gain by 2040

RIYADH: Sustainability commitments are easy to announce. The harder test for tourism developers might be proving that nature is measurably better off once a development’s own impacts have been counted. Saleh Maghrabi, a marine en…

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Yemen’s Houthi war threatens ancient heritage and fuels fears of antiquities trafficking

LONDON: The renewed offensive by the Houthi militia in Yemen has raised fresh concerns about the fate of a cultural heritage already battered by more than a decade of war, destruction and looting. The impact of the latest fightin…

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Lebanon opens investigation into Syrian militia leader’s abduction and transfer to Syria

BEIRUT: Lebanese authorities were investigating how a former Syrian militia commander suspected of committing crimes during the government of ousted President Bashar Assad was abducted in Lebanon and taken to Syria, judicial and …