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The Arab Tourism Organization, represented by President Bandar Al Fahid and members of the organization’s General Secretariat, has concluded its participation in the 58th Ordinary Session of the Higher Coordination Committee for Joint Arab Action in Jordan. The meeting was hosted by the Association of Arab Universities in the Jordanian capital, Amman, under the chairmanship of Secretary-General of the League of Arab States Ahmed Aboul Gheit. It brought together the heads and secretaries-general of 28 specialized Arab organizations and institutions operating under the umbrella of the League of Arab States and the joint Arab action framework. Al Fahid said the…
Amazon recently revealed plans to invest an additional $13 billion to expand AI and cloud infrastructure in India by 2030. A move that reiterates the company’s long-term commitment to the country. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi to reiterate his company’s long-term commitment to India, with the fresh investment earmarked to expand AWS data centre capacity. The new pledge takes Amazon’s total planned AI and cloud infrastructure investment in India to more than $21 billion between 2026 and 2030 and comes six months after the tech giant announced a $35 billion investment. Amazon…
RIYADH — The Ministry of Health has initiated legal and regulatory action against a healthcare practitioner who appeared in widely circulated social media content promoting the injection of an exosome product in violation of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority’s approved usage guidelines. The ministry said the practitioner also made claims about the product’s safety based on personal experience, conduct that it said contravenes healthcare regulations and professional ethics. According to the ministry, the practitioner’s violations included promoting the product for uses outside its approved indications, making unsupported claims about its safety and effectiveness based on personal experiences and those…
The recognition reflects Mediclinic Middle East’s ongoing commitment to delivering safe, high-quality and patient-centred care across its network Published: Fri 26 Jun 2026, 2:14 PM Mediclinic Middle East, one of the UAE’s leading private healthcare providers, has been recognised with five awards through the Dubai Quality Group awards programme. These include Global Medical Excellence Awards for Mediclinic Parkview Hospital, Mediclinic Welcare Hospital and Mediclinic City Hospital, as well as the Global Artificial Intelligence Award and the Global Sustainability Award. The recognition reflects Mediclinic Middle East’s ongoing commitment to delivering safe, high-quality and patient-centred care across its network. By placing patients…
Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah met today in Manama with Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, on the sidelines of the joint ministerial meeting between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and the United States of America. During the meeting, they reviewed cooperation relations between the two brotherly countries, discussed the latest regional developments, and efforts to enhance security and stability. They also reviewed the latest developments regarding the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Islamic…
Fifteen companies backed by the European Innovation Council (EIC) will exhibit at GITEX AI EUROPE 2026 in Berlin next week, as part of a dedicated pavilion bringing together European deep-tech startups and scaleups at the event’s second edition. GITEX AI EUROPE 2026 runs 30 June – 1 July at Messe Berlin, featuring 950-plus enterprise tech exhibitors and startups across two days. The EIC, which administers a €10.1 billion programme supporting high-potential European companies, is participating through its International Trade Fairs Programme 3.0. Exhibiting companies include Astrape Networks, CH-Bioforce, Classiq, Dronamics, Enersens, everox, Innatera, Invoier, Oledcomm, OniO and SpiNNcloud, among others.…
Formula E and the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) have announced the first calendar for the 2026/2027 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship following its approval by the FIA World Motor Sport Council. Formula E will head to the Middle East on December 18-19, 2026, for an unprecedented milestone in the 2026/2027 season. For the first time, the global ABB FIA Formula E World Championship calendar will begin at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit with rounds one and two, featuring distinctive night races in a country that has developed a strong relationship with the championship. Hosting the season opener at the…
NEW DELHI — Police in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on Thursday arrested eight people hours after registering a case in connection with alleged misappropriation of donations to a temple built at the site of a historic mosque demolished by Hindu zealots. The case was registered on the complaint of Krishna Mohan, a member of the trust running the temple, following the recommendation made in the preliminary report of an investigation team. Two-and-a-half years after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the grand temple, the shrine is embroiled in an unsavoury row over allegations that donations from devotees worth tens of…
WASHINGTON — The US supreme court on Thursday ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s bid to strip temporary protected status from hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants which allowed them to stay legally in the US for years with protection from deportation. The court issued a 6-3 ruling overturning decisions by federal judges in New York and Washington that had halted the administration’s actions terminating TPS for more than 350,000 migrants from Haiti and 6,100 from Syria. The court’s three liberal-leaning justices disagreed with the opinion. It leaves Haitians and Syrians in the US on TPS vulnerable…
CARACAS — Thousands of Venezuelans were feared dead as rescuers are searching through rubble in a rush to save lives after two powerful earthquakes wreaked havoc in and around Venezuelan capital Caracas on Wednesday. In Caracas and the nearby coastal city of La Guaira, people could be heard calling for help from under the debris of collapsed buildings. The first 7.2-magnitude quake was followed seconds later by an even stronger 7.5-magnitude one, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), with both occurring close to the surface, making destruction more severe. The USGS, using predictive modeling to estimate the death toll,…