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  • With a President in Place, Can Iraq Finally Form a Government?

    The Iraqi Parliament was finally able to meet quorum October 13, and it elected Abdul Latif Rashid as Iraq’s new president, ending a yearlong political and legal gridlock over the presidency and the new government. Reflecting the consensual, post-2003 ethno-sectarian division of key offices, Rashid is a Kurd. The election of the president met an important constitutional requirement, allowing for formal government formation to begin. The new president immediately tasked the Coordination Framework’s designated prime minister, Mohammed al-Sudani, to form the next Iraqi government.

  • Physical inactivity could cost $27bn annually, calls for urgent action from governments: Report

    The first-ever physical activity global report by WHO published on Wednesday, measured the extent to which governments are implementing recommendations to increase physical activity across all ages and abilities. According to the data from 194 countries, it was revealed that progress is slow and that countries need to accelerate the development and implementation of policies to increase levels of physical activity to prevent disease and reduce burden on overwhelmed healthcare systems.

  • U.S. fought to keep veterans’ jobs with foreign governments secret

    The Post sued the Army, the Air Force, the Navy, the Marine Corps and the State Department in federal court under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). After a two-year legal battle, The Post obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents, including case files for about 450 retired soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.

  • Israel’s Economy Is Thriving Despite Its Dysfunctional Government

    Israel's perennial headlines obscure a greater reality, which is that the Mideast nation of 9 million is an economic juggernaut. It has the fastest growth and one of the lowest rates of inflation and joblessness. On top of that, the shekel is the world's best-performing currency among the 31 that trade actively and the only one that strengthened against the dollar the past decade.

  • Government support drives telehealth in Saudi Arabia

    Globally, new hybrid models of care delivery involving face-to-face and remote care are emerging post-pandemic, ensuring constant patient-physician communication and patient experience are not compromised. This is propelled by the increased uptake of digital health solutions such as telehealth. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is moving in the same direction, and this is evident from the strong growth forecasted for telehealth, which includes virtual visits, mHealth, and remote patient monitoring (RPM) in the region. This is estimated to reach US$415.4 million by 2025, according to a Frost & Sullivan analysis. While virtual visits/ consultations have an emerging adoption rate, remote patient monitoring technologies currently have a low adoption rate in Saudi Arabia.

  • German government approves arms exports to Saudi Arabia: reports

    Germany's coalition government has approved new arms export deals to Saudi Arabia, media reported on Thursday. The reports emerged after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar. Berlin had imposed a ban on weapons exports to Riyadh over its involvement in the war in Yemen, as well as accusations of murdering the dissident US-Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

  • Saudi Arabia implements Data Driven-Government to realise digital economy as part of the Vision 2030

    Saudi Arabia, which is executing the third phase of the three-stage data-driven government or the National Strategy for Digital Transformation, is currently bringing all the public services under a single digital platform as part of the Smart Government Strategy (2020-2024), that once implemented, will deliver public services through smart phones, on the citizen’s fingertips.

  • Saudi Crown Prince named prime minister in cabinet reshuffle, meet the new government

    Saudi Arabia's King Salman named Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the Kingdom's prime minister and Prince Khalid bin Salman as defense minister, according to a royal decree issued on Tuesday.

  • India is on track to attract $100 billion FDI this fiscal, says government

    India is on track to attract $100 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the current fiscal on account of economic reforms and ease of doing business, the government said on September 24, 2022. In 2021-22, the country received the "highest ever" foreign inflows of $83.6 billion.

  • Domestic travel in Saudi Arabia up 30% as government’s cultural vision boosts tourism

    ore than 10.5 million Saudis travelled to cultural sites within the kingdom in the first 10 months of 2021, marking a 30 per cent increase from the previous year. The data was revealed by the Ministry of Culture in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in a report, which assesses the growth of cultural activities within the country. According to State of Culture in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2021: Culture in Public Spaces, between 2017 and 2021, domestic cultural tourism grew by 4.5 per cent annually. The lifting of Covid-19 restrictions on open spaces, such as heritage and archaeological sites, and the general increase in cultural activities and experiences, were key drivers of the growth, it said.