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, ...

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 ...

FILE: A picture taken on 13 April 1986 shows Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, then-wife of South African president Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid campaigner, addressing a meeting in Kagiso township.

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 ...

Speaking to her co-stars, she explained: 'I worked with Nelson Mandela after his release from prison so it would have been in 1989. 'I spent a fair amount of time with him and I kept ...

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 ...

On November 15, 1988, in the early years of the first Intifada, Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, proclaimed Palestine as an independent state with Jerusalem as its ...