Mental health specialists have sounded the alarm about the potential psychological crisis of healthcare workers working on the frontline in conflict zones such as Ukraine, saying a lack of support is leading to crises amongst the workers themselves. Director of psycho-oncology at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Dr Maya Bizri, told Al Arabiya English … Read more
Four years ago, by royal decree, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pledged a vast financial investment – over a billion dollars a year – into research that would extend the healthy human lifespan, which led to the birth of the Kingdom’s Evolution Foundation. The Foundation – a global fund that aims to find and … Read more
Planted in a field, Vincent van Gogh painted furiously, bending the thick oils, riotous yellows, and sumptuous blues to his will. The resulting masterpiece, “Wheatfield with Crows,” bursts off the canvas like technicolor champagne. Art historians believe the Dutch master painted it on July 8, 1890. As far as they can tell, Van Gogh then … Read more
The Kingdom’s Ministry of Finance announced a preliminary statement of budget for the fiscal year 2024 with expenditures valued at 1,251 billion riyals and revenues projected to be 1,172 billion riyals, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported early on Sunday. A limited deficit is estimated to be recorded at about 1.9 percent. Minister of Finance Mohammed bin … Read more
Football fans around the world are following this season’s Saudi Pro League like never before after clubs here welcomed a host of star-studded new arrivals to the Kingdom over the past nine months. Each week, Al Arabiya English will do a round-up of the key storylines as Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Neymar and Co slug it out … Read more
21 people died on Tuesday after a bus carrying tourists to a campground fell from a Venice bridge in northern Italy, the city’s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, was quoted as saying by Italian newspaper la Repubblica. “A tragedy has struck our community this evening”, resulting in “many victims among those present on the bus that fell” … Read more
Cristiano Ronaldo was on target as Al Nassr survived a scare in the Asian Champions League on Monday with the Saudi Pro League side coming from a goal down to hand Tajikistan’s Istiklol a 3-1 defeat in Riyadh. Senin Sebai scored on the break to put the club from Dushanbe in front with a minute left in … Read more
Western militaries are running out of ammunition to supply Ukraine, head of NATO’s Military Committee Admiral Rob Bauer said on Tuesday, urging the bloc’s member countries to boost production to continue aiding Kyiv in its fight against Russia’s invasion. “The bottom of the barrel is now visible,” Bauer said at the Warsaw Security Forum, adding … Read more
Moldova has not used Russian gas since late last year, but it is keeping open the option of buying supply from Gazprom if conditions are right, the head of the Russian gas giant’s local subsidiary said on Tuesday. Since last December, Gazprom’s daily supply of 5.7 million cubic meters (mcm) has been channeled to the … Read more
Saudi Arabia will continue with its voluntary cut of one million barrels per day for the month of November and until the end of December 2023, an official source from the Ministry of Energy said on Wednesday. The Kingdom’s production for the months of November and December will hence be around 9 million barrels per day. According … Read more
