US Secretary of State John Kerry, along with fellow G-7 foreign ministers, on Monday toured the memorial to the victims of Hiroshima, paying tribute to the 140,000 people killed on August 6, 1945, when the US dropped a nuclear bomb on the city.Kerry is the first most senior execu

The minister of finance has just announced a series of financial reforms the country will introduce in order to address the continued budgetary deficit, reduce state expenditure and instate financial efficiency.Among the measures was the decision to link the rate of electricity f

The United Nations’ cultural agency UNESCO, in September last year, said archaeological sites in Syria were looted on “industrial scale” by Daesh, which used the proceeds of its plunder to finance its operations.UNESCO took note of this development in October 2014, when it conven

Of all US presidential candidates, be they Democrat or Republican, ironically, the Jewish senator from Vermont seems to have the most balanced position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Bernie Sanders has made no secret of his belief that Israelis and Palestinians can and shoul

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is declaring an all-out war on the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), believing that peace talks with them are fruitless.In a speech to a select group of lawyers in Ankara, Tuesday, the Turkish leader declared that there is “nothing to discuss wit

His Majesty King Abdullah’s talks on Tuesday with visiting Speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan and the accompanying US congressional delegation from both Republican and Democratic parties informed US officials of the challenges Jordan is facing, most promine

According to health experts, obesity is on the rise worldwide and is projected to spike even more by 2025 if current consumption patterns continue.According to a recent article published in the British medical journal “The Lancet”, one in five adults worldwide will suffer from ob

A meeting held by organisations concerned with family protection discussed the updated version of the National Framework for Family Protection, which outlines the intervention roles different institutions play in cases of domestic violence.Discussions also covered the draft

US and three of its Western allies, France, UK and Germany, recently sent a letter of complaint to the UN Security Council, charging that Iran is not complying of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which calls on it not to develop or test missiles capable of carrying nuclear bo