Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned yesterday faced its worst funding crisis ever after the White House froze tens of millions of dollars in contributions, a move Palestinian leaders decried as cruel and blatantly biased, reports AFP. The agency provides…

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia announced yesterday it would transfer $2 billion to Yemen’s central bank, following desperate calls for a financial rescue from the beleaguered government it has supported militarily for nearly three years, reports AFP. The bailout aims to curb the fall in value of the Yemeni…

NEW DELHI: India’s top court yesterday began hearing a challenge to the legality of a government identity scheme that holds biometric data on more than a billion people, reports AFP. The “Aadhaar” system uses fingerprints and iris scans to provide users a 12-digit unique identity number…

Tehran: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has expressed support for Qatar, dismissing any “unjust and unfair pressures” on Doha by its…

London: Five UK nationals are going to court in the Netherlands in a campaign to keep their EU citizenship after Brexit, reports BBC. They want a Dutch…