ABU DHABI: More than a decade in the making, the Louvre Abu Dhabi opens its doors on Wednesday, bringing the famed name to the Arab world for the first…

AL-QAIM: They emerge timidly from houses to survey the debris-strewn streets of their town. As Iraqi forces hunt down diehard jihadists, Al-Qaim residents recall three years of hell in “open-air prison”, reports AFP. “At last we’ll be able to sleep easily without worrying about…

BONN: Syria told the UN climate talks in Bonn on Tuesday that it would join the Paris Agreement, leaving the United States as the only nation in the world opting to stay outside the landmark treaty, reports AFP. “We are going to join the Paris Agreement,” the Syrian delegate, speaking in…

JOS, Nigeria: Gunmen have killed at least 11 traders in central Nigeria, police said yesterday, in the latest violence in the region, which has been hit by decades of ethnic and sectarian strife, reports AFP. The traders were returning from a rural market in the Riyom district of Plateau state when…

NEW DELHI: Delhi shut all primary schools yesterday as pollution hit 70 times the World Health Organization’s safe level, prompting doctors in the Indian capital to warn of a public health emergency, reports AFP. Dense grey smog shrouded the roads of the world’s most polluted capital, where…

LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May summoned her aid minister back from a trip to Africa yesterday following a row over unauthorised meetings in Israel, prompting speculation she will be the second minister in a week to be sacked, reports AFP. International Development Secretary Priti Patel left…

KUALA LUMPUR: Dozens of live pangolins were seized from suspected traffickers close to Malaysia’s border with Thailand, officials said yesterday, thwarting the latest attempt to smuggle the critically endangered creatures, reports AFP. The pangolins, the world’s most heavily trafficked mammals,…