Month: January 1970

The UAE’s lunar rover is set to launch in 2024. Weighing just 10 kilograms, it is smaller than any other to have yet landed on the moon.

The UAE aims to join an elite space club of just three nations, with an unmanned moon mission planned for 2024.

I love Baghdad. It’s the city where I feel most at home. I can’t quite explain it, perhaps it’s because it’s the place whose people, whose story — tragic as … Read More

Alex Hirschi, better known ‘Supercar Blondie,’ is a social media star famous for videos of her driving the world’s most powerful road cars around Dubai.

Up to 20,000 cubic meters (706,000 cubic feet) of sand in the Suez Canal need to be removed to free the gigantic container ship that has been stuck there since … Read More

A tanker carrying oil docked at Hodeidah port in Yemen on Thursday — the first such ship to berth this year in the country’s Houthi-controlled north, where fuel is desperately … Read More

Jordanian riot police on Wednesday broke up protests in Amman and other cities called to mark the 10th anniversary of Arab Spring pro-democracy demonstrations, and authorities detained tens of activists, … Read More

Dozens of cargo vessels carrying vital goods remain stranded at both ends of the Suez Canal, as efforts continue to dislodge a 224,000-ton vessel that is blocking one of the … Read More

Seven tug boats have come to the aid of a container ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal on Tuesday and blocked other vessels from transiting one of the … Read More

A top Saudi official issued a death threat against Agnès Callamard, the UN Special Rapporteur behind the investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to Callamard’s office.