CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be sworn in for his second term on Saturday during a special parliament session, reports AFP quoting state-media. Sisi’s second term in office was sealed when he won 97 percent of valid votes in a presidential election in March. Saturday will…

LONDON: Long attached to visions of clear skies and calm seas, the colour blue historically could not be more welcome, refreshing and natural. Yet, because…

KABUL: The United Nations issued a blistering report yesterday accusing the Afghan state of violating women’s rights by failing to prosecute criminal violence against them, underscoring widespread gender brutality nearly 17 years after the Taliban’s fall, reports AFP. A law protecting women…

NEW DELHI: Studies revealed that India was the best performer in the global wealth market in 2017. According to a report by New World Health, India’s…

LIEGE: A gunman yesterday shot dead two police officers with their own weapons before killing a bystander in a brazen suspected terror attack in Belgium, briefly taking a hostage at a school before being killed by police, reports AFP. The carnage in the gritty eastern industrial city of Liege began…

KUALA LUMPUR: The second search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ended yesterday after a fruitless 90-day sweep of the southern Indian Ocean, reports CNN. The US-based company that conducted the hunt, Ocean Infinity, said it had covered 112,000 square kilometers of the ocean floor, but ultimately…