Doha -Arab nations have extended a deadline in the Qatar crisis by 48 hours after a request by Kuwait's emir.
A joint statement issued early Monday on behalf of Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates said it expected Qatar to (...)
Baghdad - A twin suicide bombing struck a village wedding north of Baghdad as the wedding party gathered in the evening hours, killing at least 26 people and wounding dozens, a government spokesman said Thursday.
The attack, which took place late (...)
The World Health Organization is debating how to reform itself after botching the response to the Ebola outbreak, a sluggish performance that experts say cost thousands of lives.
On Sunday, WHO's executive board planned to discuss proposals that (...)
Just two days from the finish, President Barack Obama's campaign is mobilizing a massive get-out-the-vote effort aimed at carrying the Democrat to victory, as Republican Mitt Romney makes a late play for votes in Democratic-leaning (...)
ارتفعت الأسهم العالمية خلال تداولات اليوم الأربعاء عقب تحقيق شركة Apple Inc. وشركات أخرى أمريكية مكاسب كبيرة لتفوق بذلك كافة التوقعات، الأمر الذي من شأنه الابتعاد قليلاً عن الأزمات الاقتصادية والسياسية التي تعاني منها أوروبا بشأن أزمة الديون.
وعليه، (...)
GENEVA: The United Nations hopes to have 30 cease-fire monitors in Syria next week and plans are already being made for the deployment of up to 300, a spokesman for international envoy Kofi Annan said Friday, as France called on the international (...)
BAGHDAD: Iraq's Al-Qaeda branch claimed responsibility Friday for attacks that killed dozens in the capital and across the country the day before, the worst wave of violence in weeks.
The sudden spike dashed hopes that Iraq was calming and raised (...)
CAIRO: Hundreds of Egyptian demonstrators briefly blocked a main Cairo bridge over the Nile river Thursday to back their call for an end to military rule, a sign of growing concern that the generals might try to cling to power.
The protesters (...)
JUBA: South Sudan said Friday it will withdraw its troops from an oil town claimed by Sudan, pulling the two nations back from the brink of all-out war. Sudan said the withdrawal wasn't voluntary and that its troops routed the southern (...)
BEIRUT: Syrian troops clashed with army defectors in an eastern city Thursday, leaving at least one person dead, while government forces bombarded rebel-held neighborhoods of the central city of Homs, activists said.
The renewed violence comes as (...)
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday denounced a rare visit to Jerusalem by the nation's top Islamic theologian that broke with decades of opposition to traveling to areas under Israeli control.
Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa said his two-hour visit (...)
JUBA: The Arab League said Thursday it would hold an emergency meeting over the increasing violence between Sudan and South Sudan. The south reported new skirmishes even as Sudan's president increased his threats of war toward the south.
Sudan (...)
BEIRUT: Nearly a week after a cease-fire took effect, Syrian troops pounded a rebel stronghold Wednesday as the country's foreign minister met with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing during the latest round of talks aimed at preventing the truce (...)
BRUSSELS: The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending.
Top military and diplomatic (...)
ارتفعت مؤشرات الأسهم الأمريكية بقوة عقب إشارات واعدة فيما يتعلق بتقارير أرباح الشركات الأمريكية وعقب المزاد القوي لأذون الخزانة الإسبانية. واتجه مؤشر داو جونز الصناعي إلى تسجيل مكاسب هي الأكبر له في شهر.
وشهدت الأسهم الأوروبية يومًا هو الأفضل على (...)
CAIRO: The opening trial of those charged in connection to the deaths of 75 people killed in Egypt's worst football violence was briefly adjourned when defendants erupted in protest to proclaim their innocence.
The 73 defendants, among them nine (...)
BEIRUT: The Syrian regime widened shelling attacks on opposition strongholds Tuesday, activists said, targeting a second town in a new sign that a UN-brokered cease-fire is quickly unraveling despite the presence of foreign observers.
The truce (...)
JERUSALEM: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Tuesday his country has never promised the United States it would hold off from attacking Iran while nuclear talks were taking place.
The comments, in which Barak said that a diplomatic push to (...)
BAGHDAD: A Sunni lawmaker says he escaped an assassination attempt when gunmen ambushed his convoy north of the Iraqi capital.
Falah Al-Naqeeb, a member the Sunni-backed Iraqiya parliament bloc, said over the phone on Tuesday that gunmen sprayed (...)
Out behind a small farmhouse on a Long Island country road sits an old gray barn where a tormented artist dripped paint off brushes, sticks — even turkey basters — onto canvasses spread out on a wooden floor. Besides making quite a mess of things, (...)
تم اختيار جيم يونج كيم، الأمريكي الذي ترأس كليّة دارتماوث، ليصبح الرئيس القادم للبنك الدولي. وقد جاء اختياره ليواصل قبضة الولايات المتحدة على هذا المنصب الرفيع لتلك المنظمة التي تضم مئة وسبعة وثمانين دولة.
هذا، وقد تم اختيار كيم، المرشح المفاجئ الذي (...)
BEIRUT: An advance team of UN observers was negotiating the ground rules with Syrian authorities Monday for monitoring the country's 5-day-old cease-fire, which appeared to be rapidly unraveling as regime forces pounded the opposition stronghold of (...)
CAIRO: One person died and 24 were injured in Suez during a fire that raged for nearly 20 hours in the storage facilities of an oil company, local police chief Adel Refaat said.
Bashir Saad Bashir, 32, was driving a fire truck to help with (...)
JERUSALEM: After the death of their spiritual leader, more than 2,000 Egyptian Copts have poured into the Holy Land for the Easter holidays, defying a ban he imposed on visiting Jerusalem and other Israeli-controlled areas.
The influx — after (...)
CAIRO: The Cairo Administrative Court has ordered authorities to produce evidence of whether the mother of an Islamist presidential candidate has dual Egyptian-US citizenship, something that could disqualify him from running in the May (...)