DUBAI: Iran criticised Egypt yesterday for delays in issuing permits to bring in aid to Gaza and to transport wounded women and children...
DUBAI: Iran criticised Egypt yesterday for delays in issuing permits to bring in aid to Gaza and to transport wounded women and children...
BAGHDAD: Shia militia forces executed 15 Sunni Muslims and then hung them by electricity poles in a public square in a town northeast...
BYBLOS, Lebanon: Influential British band Massive Attack dedicated their only Middle East gig to the children of Gaza, openly condemning Israel’s “massacre” of...
UNITED NATIONS, United States: The United Nations is pressing on with cross-border aid convoys to Syria from Turkey and Jordan but is reviewing...
TUNIS: Tunisia cannot cope with any massive influx of refugees who might seek to enter the country from strife-torn neighbouring Libya and will...
ISTANBUL: Hundreds of Turkish women posted pictures of themselves laughing on Twitter yesterday to protest comments by Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, who...
BEIRUT: Human Rights Watch sharply criticised the Syrian air force yesterday for intensifying strikes on Aleppo, despite a UN Security Council resolution ordering...
KHARTOUM: Crude camps housing South Sudanese have been flooded by heavy rains that inundated the Sudanese capital over the Eid Al Fitr holiday,...
US President Barack Obama (left) orders iced tea and samples some food while at Parkville Coffee during an unscheduled stop in Parkville, Missouri,...
WASHINGTON: The White House in the next few days is expected to declassify the long-awaited summary of a US Senate committee study of...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin chairs a Cabinet meeting in his Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, yesterday. MOSCOW: A defiant Russia said yesterday unprecedented Western...
BRUSSELS: With only 24 hours to go, Jean-Claude Juncker, president-designate of the next European Commission, is still very short of female candidates for...
A combo picture shows four pairs of shoes by artist and designer Svenja Ritter, on display at the exhibition ‘Art Shoes - Shoes...
Britain’s Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, emerges from a fortified bunker during a tour of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) yesterday in Scarborough....
WASHINGTON: The United States plans to sell 5,000 Hellfire missiles to Iraq in a $700m deal, officials said, as Washington tries to help...
LONDON: On the eve of World War I, Britain’s foreign minister, Edward Grey, observed: “The lamps are going out all over Europe. We...
LONDON: Two former senior journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s defunct British tabloid the News of the World will be charged with conspiring to hack...
VAIDEENI, Romania: One person died and three others were missing after heavy rain caused floods in southwest Romania over the past three days,...
