Get exclusive content with Gulf News WhatsApp channel Workers will also get a one-day holiday on the ninth of Dhu Al Hijjah for Arafat Day. The exact date for the holiday will be announced after ...

Post-WWII, the humanitarian aided orphaned Holocaust survivor children in Germany and later leveraged her position to open ...

they have been there during (former president Nelson) Mandela’s time. When president Mandela first visited the United States, ...

a symbol of Palestinian identity and resistance immortalised by Yasser Arafat. The people pledged unwavering support for the cause as the Palestinian tricolour and the Bangladeshi Red and Green ...

In Shiyah, the fighters of old have disappeared. Israel's 1982 invasion and siege of Beirut dislodged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his fighters, while the leftist presence was replaced by ...

Sri Lanka’s highest award for a foreigner, Sri Lanka Mithra Vibhushana was awarded to Mahmoud Abbas and posthumously to Yasser Arafat by Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2014. That was a moral gesture of ...

Previous recipients were former Maldives president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Yasser Arafat. The past awards indicated the close relations between Maldives and ...

Twenty years after the Brook Waimārama Sanctuary was established in Nelson, it's set to become home to a species of kiwi that had long been considered functionally extinct in the South Island.

Durbin was found with 2077 unique child sexual abuse and exploitation files across five devices seized after a search of his family home in Nelson by the Department of Internal Affairs Digital Child ...

Directors Stanley Nelson and Nicole London join the latest episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to explore the music and its key innovators including James Brown, George Clinton and Sly Stone.