BEIRUT: Lebanon’s parliament gave a newly-formed cabinet a vote of confidence yesterday, ending almost a year of political deadlock during which the country...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s parliament gave a newly-formed cabinet a vote of confidence yesterday, ending almost a year of political deadlock during which the country...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama yesterday called on the “entire” government in Tehran to seize on nuclear talks with world powers to end...
BEIRUT: More than half of Syria’s declared chemical weapons arsenal has been shipped out or destroyed within the country, the head of the...
VIENNA: Iran is still sticking to a partial nuclear freeze agreed in a November interim deal with world powers, the UN atomic watchdog...
BAGHDAD: Attacks killed eight people across Iraq yesterday. The violence, Iraq’s worst since 2008, has been primarily driven by discontent in the minority...
ANKARA: A commuter train smashed into a minibus on a railway track in southern Turkey on Thursday, killing 10 people and injuring several...
CAIRO: A satirist renowned for attacking what he calls unprofessionalism in Egypt’s media has been pilloried on Twitter for plagiarism after he admitted...
TRIPOLI: Libya’s government yesterday announced it was mobilising its security forces after acknowledging for the first time that “terrorist groups” were behind dozens...
Kuwait: Kuwait’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah yesterday said the 25th Arab summit would...
RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demanded in talks with US President Barack Obama that Israel free key Palestinian prisoners, including Marwan Barghuti, a...
JERUSALEM: Israel has progressed with plans for more than 2,000 new homes in six West Bank settlements, an official said yesterday, in a...
GAZA CITY: The European Union and Unicef launched a project yesterday to build a desalination plant in the Gaza Strip to provide 75,000...
Russian Black Sea Fleet submarines at the Crimean port of Sevastopol. Russia’s Lower House of parliament yesterday overwhelmingly approved a treaty to annex...
A three-day-old female elephant (right) takes one of her first trips out into the elephant enclosure with mother Califa and two of her...
NEW YORK: A teenage boy was arrested after sneaking into One World Trade Center, which is still under construction in New York City...
MOSCOW: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday called for UN and OSCE rights monitors to deploy in Ukraine and urged an “honest and...
JOHANNESBURG: Oscar Pistorius will sell the luxury Pretoria home in which he shot and killed his girlfriend to pay his legal expenses due...
LONDON: Around 40 percent of Scots plan to vote for independence in this year’s referendum, according to a poll yesterday which showed a...
