Oman, US review cooperation, regional issues
MUSCAT: Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali al Harthi, Under-Secretary of the Foreign Ministry for Political Affairs, on Wednesday held a meeting with Jonathan Burke, Assistant Secretary of the…
Call for greater use of geographic technologies
SALALAH: The 11th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geographic Information, organised by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the University of Technology M…
Public opinion survey on satisfaction with govt services begins
MUSCAT: The National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) has begun implementing the seventh round of the public opinion survey on satisfaction with government services for…
UK PM defends WB trade ban after Israel’s retaliation
LONDON: UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham defended on Wednesday his government’s ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank after Israel retaliated against London-…
Indonesian wildfire emissions surge to world’s highest
JAKARTA: Indonesia is facing a surge in emissions from wildfires burning through parched stretches of forest and peatland on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, with carbon dioxide…
Nepal turns to drones to deliver flood relief
DEVIGHAT: With roads and bridges destroyed and helicopters busy with search and rescue operations after last month’s devastating floods, Nepal’s army is turning to drones to deli…
14 killed in blast at arms depot in northwest Syria
DAMASCUS: An explosion at an arms depot in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province killed 14 people on Wednesday, the local health department said, without specifying the cause of the…
Building trust: How one developer in Zanzibar built investment safety into the resort’s structure
When Christopher Nash arrived in Zanzibar in 2021, he was not expecting to build a village.
A history of oil price swings this century
London: Brent North Sea crude, the international benchmark, topped $100 a barrel Wednesday following a flare-up in the US-Iran war since the end of August that risks fresh disrupti…
Iran and US hit tankers in biggest wave of attacks on shipping since war began
CAIRO/WASHINGTON/DUBAI: Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of t…