Oman News

SYDNEY: Rapidly rising rivers swamped swathes of rain-lashed Sydney on Monday, forcing thousands to flee "dangerous" floods as the city's largest dam spilled torrents of water.On the third day of...

China placed 1.7 million people under lockdown in central Anhui province, where authorities reported nearly 300 new cases in the latest of a string of outbreaks testing Beijing's no-tolerance approach...

Iranian officials closed government offices, courts, schools and universities in Tehran after a severe sandstorm hit the capital, state media reported."The air pollution emergency committee of Tehran province has ordered...

LUGANO: Ukraine told an international conference on Monday that it will cost an estimated $750 billion to rebuild the war-shattered country, a task President Volodymyr Zelensky said was the shared...

BRUSSELS: US Army General Christopher Cavoli is Nato's new supreme allied commander in Europe (SACEUR), after assuming command from US General Tod Wolters on Monday in a ceremony in Mons,...

PARIS: President Emmanuel Macron on Monday turned to the health minister who steered France through Covid to sell the government's policies to an electorate worried about a spike in inflation...

Gobhanu Korisepati, the founder of SWIFT (Sustaining Women in Financial Turmoil) - a microfinance NGO run by students of ABA Oman International School, Muscat, has been conferred with the distinguished...

The United States said that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely killed by gunfire from Israeli positions but that there was no reason to believe her death was...

The Italian government plans to declare an emergency in response to a serious drought that has hit parts of the country, Prime Minister Mario Draghi's office announced on Monday. The...

Rome: At least six people were killed on Sunday when a glacier ruptured and slid down the mountainside in the Italian Alps, rescue services said.Eight people were injured during the...

Copenhagen: Danish police on Monday said a gunman who opened fire in a Copenhagen shopping mall — killing three people — most likely selected his victims at random and acted...

Bandar Seri Begawan: The 3rd meeting of the joint Oman-Brunei Committee was held in Brunei’s Ministry of Finance and Economy on Monday.During the meeting, the Omani side was headed by...

LONDON: Novak Djokovic said the start times for the evening sessions at the All England Club were effectively turning Wimbledon into an indoor tournament for players scheduled to play late...

MUSCAT: The final leg for the Oman Men’s National Team of the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 just concluded in June 2022.The team was playing their last set of...

BIRMINGHAM, UK: England were off to a flying start in pursuit of 378 for a series-levelling victory against India in the fifth Test at Edgbaston on Monday.The home team were...

A democracy came under attack. The United States saw a threat to an ally and also to the entire world order, but it feared that sending troops could spark a...

Muscat: Due to heavy rains reportedly forecast to fall in parts of the Sultanate of Oman on Monday and the next few days, accompanied with strong winds, the Royal Oman...

The United States has been a constantly evolving democracy ever since it was founded in 1776, but its survival as a democracy is now gravely endangered. A set of loosely...

Muscat: A multi-year partnership agreement was announced between Shell, a leading international energy company, and iNNOVATEQ, a leading digital transformation solutions provider, to launch a new commercial chapter for Shell’s...

Salalah: The Sultanate of Oman and the Republic of Yemen on Monday concluded a round of official talks which began here yesterday.The Omani side was headed by Eng Said Hamoud...