WASHINGTON: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani arrived in Washington last evening on an official visit to the US. The Emir is accompanied by the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani.
QNA
BEIRUT: The Syrian National Coalition named veteran dissident George Sabra as caretaker leader of the main opposition grouping yesterday, following the resignation of Ahmed Moaz Al Khatib.
Sabra “was assigned today to carry out the functions of the head of the Coalition until elections for a new president,” one of the Coalition’s main constituent groups, the Syrian National Council, said in a statement.
AFP
