Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat —The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman Bin Abdulaziz held talks with Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and the Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, at the royal palace in Riyadh on Monday, the state-owned SaudiContinue Reading
On the fourth anniversary of Libya’s revolution, mounting chaos has gripped the country. Tripoli, Libya – Just off of Rashid Street in Tripoli’s downtown, with its grimy cluster of shops selling a black market mix of cheap Turkish-made guns and bullets, Jamal, a mobile phone store owner, laments the deteriorationContinue Reading
Team Rwanda Cycling has turned their focus to the 10th edition of the La Tropicale Amissa Bongo that begins this afternoon with a 100km route from Bongoville to Moanda in Gabon. Flown on a chartered plane from South Africa where Valens Ndayisenga won silver in the men’s U-23 individual timeContinue Reading
Reem Ebrahim Al Hashimi, the Minister of State in the Cabinet of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is expected in the country today for a one-day official visit. She will be accompanied by a delegation of almost twenty high-level officials from different UAE institutions who will have working sessions withContinue Reading
Scotland have never won a World Cup cricket match in eight attempts. That is not the surprising thing. The surprising thing is that they have played in two previous tournaments and are now at a third. There is a widespread sense of optimism that this time they can go home,Continue Reading
Anyone who has seen the shocking videos of Coptic Christians being beheaded in Libya or the Jordanian pilot being immolated understands the savagery of the Islamic State (IS). President Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast speech on February 5 responded with nonjudgmental relativism to these kinds of vicious acts and other recentContinue Reading
FOLLOWING the FIDE rating boom achieved by several Nigerian chess players last year, there are strong indications that all the ambitious players would get better incentives going by the Nigeria Chess Federation’s (NCF) 2015 calendar. The season has started with the on-going registration and licensing of players alongside the paymentContinue Reading
FOLLOWING the FIDE rating boom achieved by several Nigerian chess players last year, there are strong indications that all the ambitious players would get better incentives going by the Nigeria Chess Federation’s (NCF) 2015 calendar. The season has started with the on-going registration and licensing of players alongside the paymentContinue Reading