The extraordinary closure of many Saudi-owned shops and businesses run by expatriates has come about because of fears that official checks on iqamas and other papers will reveal that a large number
Anyone who drove through rural Croatia and Bosnia in Yugoslavia in the 1980s would probably have been enchanted by this corner of Europe, with its lush green hills and orchards, its picturesque far
Lip readers have been able to understand the private words exchanged between politicians in sight of the television cameras, but out of range of microphones.
There are those that will feel that with Egypt, the International Monetary Fund is back up to its old, discredited trick of imposing, as a condition of a loan, ruinous terms that seem custom-made t
THE final judgment on the US invasion of Iraq and its catastrophic consequences for the country and its people has very much been delivered in a US report just published.
TO most readers over the age of 30, the expression “social networking”, if it means anything at all, denotes meeting with friends and family and chatting over tea or coffee or a pleasan