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Any decision by South Korea to supply arms to Ukraine would make Seoul a participant in the conflict, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, after President Yoon Suk-yeol opened the door to such deliveries. South Korea has denounced Russia's invasion of Ukraine and supplied economic and humanitarian aid to Kyiv, but…

A mission by the German military to evacuate around 150 citizens from Sudan had to be halted on Wednesday due to fighting in the capital Khartoum, the Spiegel news magazine reported citing unnamed sources. A spokesperson for the defense ministry declined to comment on the report. The foreign ministry did…

Russian hackers are seeking to “disrupt or destroy” Britain’s critical infrastructure and not enough is being done to stop them, UK government officials asserted Wednesday. Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre issued an official threat notice to operators of Britain’s electricity, water and other critical systems, telling them to boost their…

Saudi Arabia’s budget will achieve more financial revenues following a production cut announced by the Kingdom with OPEC and its allies, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), thanks to higher crude prices. “The impact on the budget and on the external position relative to what we had projected is…

Watch out, Lionel Messi. ARTEMIS is here. Standing at 4 feet, 8 inches tall (142 centimeters) and weighing 85 pounds (38 kg), ARTEMIS is a first-of-its-kind robot that University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) mechanical engineers developed, and it is ready for the pitch. Using cutting edge technology, ARTEMIS, which…

"Evil Dead," the popular zombie film franchise, is back for a fifth installment with a mother possessed by a parasitic demon that talks, taunts and devours souls. This twist in "Evil Dead Rise," from traditional mute zombies, is something that director Lee Cronin enjoys. "It was kind of part of…

Britain's competition regulator said on Wednesday it was looking into proposals offered by Alphabet Inc's Google, which would give app developers the freedom to break away from Google Play's billing system. Britain's investigation in June last year raised concerns that Google's complete control over in-app payments unfairly restricted app developers,…

Saudi Arabia’s Culture Ministry, represented by the Saudi National Commission for Education, Culture and Science and the Heritage Commission, alongside the UNESCO World Heritage Center and the ICCROM-IUCN World Heritage Leadership Program are jointly organizing the fifth edition of the World Heritage Site Managers’ Forum, in partnership with ICOMOS. The…

Saudi Arabia has deployed all its human and technological resources to serve Umrah pilgrims and visitors. Approximately 36 million pilgrims were transported to the holy city of Makkah during this year’s holy month of Ramadan. With the influx of pilgrims and visitors increasing, the Kingdom’s security agencies are placing numerous…

A visit by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to Paris was postponed, French newspaper Le Figaro cited sources as saying. According to information reported by the newspaper, the symbolic trip of the Algerian president, which was to take place on May 2- 3, has been postponed by mutual agreement without new…

Real Madrid’s pursuit of a 15th European Cup marches on. Chelsea, meanwhile, does not know when it will compete on this elite stage again. Madrid’s 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday completed a 4-0 aggregate victory and saw the Spanish giants advance to the Champions League semifinals for the…