(Zaman Al Wasl)- The local council of Uqayribat, a subdistrict of the Salamiyah city in Hama province, has renewed appeals to the International and humanitarian organizations and to the UN Security Council to lift the siege on the people of Aqirbat and to save them from the...

Hurricane Irma menaced Cuba and the Bahamas on Friday as it drove toward Florida after lashing the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, killing 19 people and leaving a swathe of catastrophic destruction. Florida Governor Rick Scott issued a stark warning to residents to...

The dollar remained mired near its lowest levels since early 2015 as European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s suggestion that the ECB may begin tapering its massive stimulus program this autumn continued to underpin the euro. Meanwhile expectations of another interest rate hike...

The eye of Hurricane Irma grazed the Turks and Caicos Islands on Thursday, rattling buildings after it smashed a string of Caribbean islands as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, killing 14 people on its way to Florida. With winds of around 185 miles per hour (290 km...