US state ALASKA has been hit by a huge earthquake, which prompted a major tsunami alert in the US. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit about 75 miles south of Chignik in Alaska. Officials issued a tsunami warning for South Alaska and the Alaska Peninsula, from Kennedy Entrance to Unimak Pass. The US Tsunami Warning System مزید پڑھیں

A senior businessman says major Iranian companies are teaming up to create a trade office in China amid growing economic relations between the two countries. Gholamhossein Jamili, a board member at Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA), said on Tuesday that the trade office in China would play a major role in مزید پڑھیں

Official results from Syria’s parliamentary election show that the country’s ruling party and its allies have managed to secure a majority in the legislature. The electoral commission in Syria announced on Tuesday that President Bashar al-Assad’s Baath party and its allies won the general election and took 177 seats out of 250 in the parliament. مزید پڑھیں

With mass layoffs all over the world, coronavirus expatriates in Dubai are now in a race to find new jobs amid the worsening economy. Mustafa, a hipster Pakistani graloomphic artist, has a month to find a new job or be forced to leave Dubai among a host of expatriates whose futures have been up-ended by مزید پڑھیں

Saudi Arabia will celebrate Eid-ul-Azha on July 31, Friday, the Kingdom’s Supreme Court announced Monday. According to these calculations, July 31, will mark the first day of Eid-ul-Azha. The announcement came after moonsighting committees — formed to determine the month of the Islamic calendar year — confirmed that the moon had not been sighted and مزید پڑھیں

 Saudi authorities on Monday announced this year’s Hajj will on July 29 with only 1,000 pilgrims as the country battles a surge in coronavirus infections. Some 2.5 million people from all over the world usually participate in the ritual that takes place over several days, centred on the holy city of Makkah. This year’s Hajj مزید پڑھیں

An explosion hit a power plant in the central Iranian province of Isfahan on Sunday, state news agency IRNA reported, saying it was over faulty equipment and caused no casualties. A “worn out transformer… at Isfahan’s Islamabad thermal power plant exploded at around 5:00 am today,” the managing director of Isfahan’s electricity company Said Mohseni مزید پڑھیں

An Iranian accused of spying for American and Israeli intelligence agencies was executed by the state on Monday, Iran’s official IRIB news agency stated. Last month, the judiciary said Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd, who was arrested in 2018, had spied on former Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani, adding however that the case was not connected to Soleimani’s مزید پڑھیں

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was admitted to the King Faesal Specialist hospital on Monday for a medical checkup, according to the Saudi Press Agency. A Royal Court statement on the agency’s website revealed that King Salman had been admitted to the hospital for tests مزید پڑھیں

Monsoon floods in India has displaced nearly four million people in the northeastern state of Assam and neighbouring Nepal, with dozens missing as deaths rose to at least 200. The overflowing Brahmaputra River, which flows through China’s Tibet, India, and Bangladesh, has damaged crops and triggered mudslides, displacing millions of people, officials said. “The flood مزید پڑھیں