Ultra-Orthodox Jews shout slogans as they demonstrate in Jerusalem against any plans to make them undergo military service. More than 300,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews...
Ultra-Orthodox Jews shout slogans as they demonstrate in Jerusalem against any plans to make them undergo military service. More than 300,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews...
Residents of the coastal city of Tripoli in northern Lebanon perform during a parade at the annual carnival of Zambo, preceding Clean Monday,...
Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin (second left), the new spiritual leader of Dawoodi Bohra Muslims, gives blessings to his followers at the Imam Ali shrine,...
ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erodogan yesterday called on Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, a one-time ally who has become a bitter foe,...
JERUSALEM: Israel’s prime minister pledged yesterday to resist “pressures” as he left for Washington on a visit expected to centre on peace talks...
CAIRO: A son of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi was freed yesterday a day after being arrested on suspicion of possessing hashish, judicial...
CAIRO: Egypt’s new prime minister said yesterday that security was his top priority, as police and soldiers have faced near daily attacks since...
RIYADH: Saudi women activists have petitioned the country’s consultative council to back a demand to curb the “absolute authority” of male guardians over...
ADEN: Anti-government tribesmen kidnapped the six crew members of a Yemeni military plane yesterday after it made an emergency landing in an eastern...
TEHRAN: Iran will not be able to keep up forever its ban on legal access to Internet hubs such as Facebook, which has...
BEIRUT: Firefights and shelling rocked the Palestinian camp of Yarmuk in southern Damascus yesterday, killing a man and breaking a weeks-old truce, said...
BENGHAZI: Gunmen shot dead a French engineer in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi yesterday, a medical source said, and France’s foreign minister...
AMMAN: Millions of children in the Middle East will be vaccinated against polio this month after the crippling disease resurfaced in conflict-hit Syria,...
A Ukrainian woman holds placard reading ‘Putin go away!’ at a rally on the Independence Square in Kiev yesterday. KIEV: Ukraine warned yesterday...
A resident clears snow following an overnight snow storm in Toronto, Ontario. An extreme cold weather alert is in effect in the Toronto...
BOUAR: A food crisis is looming in the Central African Republic after nearly a year of inter-religious violence, a UN humanitarian official warned...
NEW YORK: A son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and former Al Qaeda spokesman goes on trial here today, accused of conspiracy to kill...
LONDON: James Bond star Sean Connery urged his fellow Scots yesterday to vote for independence in their referendum later this year, saying it...
