Seven people were arrested and placed in custody pending investigation following the deaths of five children who drowned at Sablettes Beach during a school trip in Algeria on Saturday, according to the country’s Public Prosecutor. The incident spurred shock waves and sympathy for the victims and their families among Algerians and state officials, including President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who offer...
Eyewitnesses said that four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombardment of a house in the Brazil neighbourhood of east Rafah, with the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip in its seventh month. According to the witnesses, the victims were Sameeh Mahmoud Mosleh (65), Manal Sobhi Mosleh (47), Maria Sameeh Mosleh (11), and Ali Hassan Abdel Jawad al-Arja (40). The witnesses said further Israeli bombin...
On Monday, some 2,300 companies from 165 countries showcased their travel and tourism-related products in the new edition of the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) in Dubai. The organizers said that the 31st edition of the event would focus on the theme, ‘Empowering Innovation: Transforming Travel Through Entrepreneurship,’ spotlighting visionary entrepreneurs in aviation, hotels, hospitality, and public...
Thousands of people have evacuated the outskirts of the Palestinian city of Rafah on Monday towards areas in central Gaza according to eyewitnesses, after the Israeli army announced plans to launch a military operation in the area. Witnesses told the Arab World Press (AWP) that a state of confusion prevailed among displaced people after the sudden Israeli announcement, which came only a day after ...
A supply chain crisis arising from the Houthi group’s targeting of maritime shipping lanes south of the Arabian Peninsula is causing an increase in the price of bread in Yemen, which has doubled in some areas to reach 70 Yemeni riyals per loaf. Amidst a shortage in flour in the country, which has been embroiled in a civil war between the internationally-recognised government and the Houthi group f...
Young Somali woman Hama Ali Ahmed did not have a chance to complete her school education to join university as she’d always dreamed, but after many years out of school and despite her many commitments, she decided to return to the classroom. Hawa now attends an adult education school in the Somali capital Mogadishu, carrying her own books and pens, and spending many hours each evening studying. Sh...
The 50th edition of the Arab Labor Conference (ALC) kicked off on Saturday. It will be hosted in the Iraqi capital Baghdad for the first time in 36 years and will run until May 4. According to the Iraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the conference will bring together representatives of the three sides of production sectors [governments, workers and employers] “to discuss issues related to ...
Under the presence and patronage of the Governor of the Saudi Eastern Region, Prince Saud bin Nayef, al-Ahsa Governor Prince Saud bin Talal, and several Saudi aviation officials, al-Ahsa International Airport was reopened following development and refurbishing works that increased its capacity to serve up to one million passengers every year. Mohammed al-Maghlouth, CEO of the Saudi Airports Holdin...
Khaled Al-Balshi, Chairman of the Egyptian Syndicate of Journalists, said that Egyptian journalists’ advantages, in terms of subsidies, medical treatment, and training, will be given to their Palestinian peers, particularly those working in the Gaza Strip. “The syndicate council has announced that it will adopt the requests it has received from Palestinian journalists working in Gaza,” Balshi said...