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LONDON: British finance minister Rishi Sunak told the Bank of England on Monday to look at the case for a new “Britcoin”, or central bank-backed digital currency, aimed at tackling some of the...

Muscat: Mohammed Vall, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to the Sultanate, has hailed the support extended to his country by Oman under the leadership of His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin...

MUSCAT: Majlis Ash’shura will host Dr Saud bin Hamoud al Habsi, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources, to present the ministry’s statement, on Sunday April 25. This was stated...

Muscat: Oman Housing Bank said that 253 loans having a lump sum value of about RO 11 million were subsidized by the government in the first quarter of 2021. Adnan Haider Darwish, CEO of Oman...

Muscat:  Dr. Abdullah al Amri, head of Environment Authority (EA), has issued a decision 61/2021 to form a support team for a gradual transition to the use of eco-friendly bags in the...

India's daily 19 cases jumped by a record 273,810 on Monday as the health system crumbled under the weight of patients, bringing total infections closer to that of the United States, the world's...

CAIRO: The Sultanate’s Embassy in Egypt confirmed the safety of two Omani nationals after a passenger train derailed north of the Egyptian capital, Cairo on Sunday. The embassy expressed...

MUSCAT: As a precautionary step to promote public health to ensure a healthy and stable life, the health institutions in the Sultanate have recently implemented the health promotion strategy...

DAMASCUS: Syria will hold a presidential election on May 26 likely to keep in power President Bashar al Assad, in a country devastated by a decade of war. The vote will be the second since the...

BEIRUT: Lebanese doctor Riad Sarkis says he can help curb Covid-19 globally. As he speaks inside Beirut airport, one of his secret weapons is wagging its tail next to him. Specifically trained sniffer...

TEHRAN: Iran has asked Interpol to help arrest a suspect in a sabotage attack on its Natanz nuclear facility which it blames on Israel, a local newspaper reported on Sunday. National television has...

MANILA: The daughter of Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte says there’s no chance she’ll run for the presidency next year. Her father says the presidency is no job for a woman. But few are...

SEOUL: South Korea raised concerns over Japan’s decision to release contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea with visiting US climate envoy John Kerry, its foreign...

COLOMBO: An almost 90-year-old car that once belonged to Britain’s late Prince Philip is now the centrepiece of a seaside museum in Sri Lanka. The Duke of Edinburgh, whose funeral was held on...

MOSCOW/PRAGUE: Russia said on Sunday Czech accusations that Russian spy services were behind an explosion in an ammunition depot were unfounded and absurd and it would retaliate for Prague’s...

BERLIN: Germany held a national memorial service on Sunday for its nearly 80,000 victims of the coronavirus pandemic, with the president urging the country to put aside deep divisions over Covid...

SINGAPORE: Very little of today’s world resembles Planet Earth from 500 years ago. In fact, only about 3 per cent of land surfaces might be ecologically intact — still home to their full range of...

Sarah Marsh Raul Castro, who is retiring from high public office, for most of his life toiled in the shadow of his older brother, Fidel Castro. Yet he also played a key role in Cuba’s 1959 leftist...

Rouba El Husseini Beirut’s roads are riddled with potholes, many walls are covered in anti-government graffiti and countless street lamps have long since gone dark. At night, car drivers creep...

IMOLA, Italy: Max Verstappen kept his cool to claim a chaotic rain-hit Emilia Romagna Grand Prix on Sunday as seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton recovered from a rare mistake to sneak in...