Author: News Desk

London: A long que of mourners of Queen Elizabeth II on  London’s South Bank,  waited to visit Queen Elizabeth II lying in state. The self-declared lifelong royalist turned up in head-to-toe black complete with gloves and a hat, and as she prepared to cross Lambeth Bridge, the 72-year-old’s coming meeting with the monarch was at the forefront of her mind. “She treated you as if she knew you,” Ms Williams said, recalling meeting the queen when the monarch visited a school she worked at in 1994. “You felt comfortable in her company. She made you feel at ease.” Years after being…

Bahrain : Director-General of Schools’ Affairs at the Ministry of Education, Dr. Mohammed Mubarak bin Ahmed, has announced that the school day and the timing of bus departures have been rescheduled, starting from Thursday 15. The move aims to ensure the interests of students and parents, while maintaining the quality of the educational process, and achieving coordination and integration among government departments in a way that contributes to providing the necessary flexibility in traffic, especially at peak times, and facilitating the movement of school buses to and from public schools. According to the Education Ministry’s decision, the school day shall…

Jeddah :  Saudi Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud met with President of the European Council Charles . During the meeting, they reviewed the historical relations and existing cooperation between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the European Union countries in various fields, including those related to energy, environment and climate change. They also discussed the regional and international situations and the efforts exerted towards them in order to achieve security and stability in the region and the world.

Manama:  First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council for Youth and Sports (SCYS), President of the General Sport Authority (GSA), President of Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC), His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa, received President of Bahrain Padel Federation Fahd Fawzi Kanoo, in the presence of GSA Vice-President HH Shaikh Salman bin Mohammed Al Khalifa and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Abdulrahman Askar. The meeting was held within the framework of His Highness’ interest in supporting federations and following up on their development to bring about more achievements in the sports sector in the Kingdom of Bahrain. His Highness received…

AMMAN: Two people were killed and 14 others were reportedly injured when a four-story residential building collapsed in Jordan’s capital Amman. The Public Security Department said eight people were pulled from the rubble in the El-Luweibdeh area. Officials attributed the collapse to poor foundations and weak supporting structures. However, residents told Arab News that they believed work on a new adjacent building had contributed to the failure.

India : Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Uzbekistan on September 15 and 16 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit where he is expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Prime Minister Modi is planning to hold bilateral meeting with Russian Putin and Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.

WASHINGTON : Russia has covertly spent more than $300 million since 2014 to try to influence politicians and other officials in more than two dozen countries, the State Department alleges in a newly released cable. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who signed the cable released Tuesday, cites a new intelligence assessment of Russia’s global covert efforts to support policies and parties sympathetic to Moscow. It’s the latest effort by the Biden administration to declassify intelligence about Moscow’s military and political aims, dating back to ultimately correct assessments that Russia would launch a new war against Ukraine. Many of President Joe…

YEREVAN :  Azerbaijani forces shelled Armenia’s territory Tuesday and killed at least 49 Armenian soldiers. The hostilities erupted minutes after midnight, with Azerbaijani forces unleashing an artillery barrage and drone attacks in many sections of Armenian territory, according to the Armenian Defense Ministry. The ministry said fighting continued during the day despite Russia’s attempt to broker a quick cease-fire. It noted that the shelling grew less intense but said Azerbaijani troops still were trying to advance into Armenian territory. Azerbaijan charged that its forces returned fire in response to “large-scale provocations” by the Armenian military, claiming that the Armenian troops…

Moscow : Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has agreed to restore the former name of the country’s capital just three years after he renamed it in honor of his predecessor, his spokesperson said Tuesday. One of Tokayev’s first moves upon taking office in 2019 after President Nursultan Nazarbayev stepped down was to call for Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana, to be dubbed Nur-Sultan instead. Tokayev’s spokesman, Ruslan Zheliban, said the president agreed to the name change after an initiative by a group of parliament members, reports AP.

NEW DELHI : Just hours before news of Queen Elizabeth II’s death spread, Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a fiery speech urging India to shed its colonial ties in a ceremony to rename a boulevard that once honored King George V. Rajpath, formerly called Kingsway, was a “symbol of slavery” under the British Raj, he said. Instead, under the newly named Kartavya Path that leads to the iconic India Gate, “a new history has been created,” Modi beamed. His speech last Thursday was the latest in a concerted drive to purge India of its colonial relics. It was also a…