How unloading of oil from FSO Safer is defusing Red Sea’s ticking ecological time bomb JEDDAH: The risks of an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe happening off the coast of Yemen are receding as a UN-led operation to pump more than a million barrels of crude oil out of an abandoned storage vessel and into a …
DUBAI: On Monday, despite months of massive pro-democracy protests across the country, Israeli lawmakers voted to implement a key element of what proponents have long called “judicial overhaul.” While the decision met with immediate backlash from various segments of Israeli society, political analysts say that these new limitations on judicial power may serve to eliminate …
BEIRUT: A man shot and killed his wife in the early hours of Wednesday while she slept in Chabtine in the Batroun district of northern Lebanon. Preliminary investigations revealed that the killer is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The initial probe found that Georges Noon, 66, used a rifle to shoot his wife, Eline Sassine, 65, …
