DUBAI: Iran faces a shortfall of one-third in this year’s budget due to lower than expected revenues and spending plans will be revised...
DUBAI: Iran faces a shortfall of one-third in this year’s budget due to lower than expected revenues and spending plans will be revised...
AMMAN: The family of radical cleric Abu Qatada, who faces terror charges in Jordan following his deportation from Britain, has arrived in the...
Visitors walk around Chavy Land amusement park in Sulaimaniya province, 330km northeast of Baghdad. The amusement park is part of a plan by...
A child is vaccinated at the Children’s Medical Center in Jerusalem yesterday. JERUSALEM: Israel took its polio vaccination campaign nationwide yesterday, saying a...
DAMASCUS: UN inspectors tasked with investigating alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria arrived yesterday in Damascus as fierce fighting raged in the...
BEIRUT: Opposition leader Ahmad Jarba says Syria is now being run by regime allies Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, with President Bashar Al Assad...
TRIPOLI: Libyan Interior Minister Mohamed Khalifa Al Sheikh tendered his resignation yesterday, just three months into the job, his spokesman said, as unrest...
BEIRUT: Lebanese security forces seized a car loaded with explosives and arrested four men suspected of preparing bombs, days after a deadly bombing...
DUBAI: Five Bahraini police were wounded late on Saturday as security forces clashed with opposition protesters in a Shia village north of the...
TUNIS: Ruling Islamist movement Ennahda and the opposition Nidaa Tounes said yesterday they have held secret talks in Europe to try to find...
BAGHDAD: Attacks in Iraq killed at least eight people including an anti-Al Qaeda militia leader yesterday, officials said, the latest in a surge...
Leoncio Fernandez, head of the La Linea fishermen group, holds a red flare to mark the end of their protest at the site...
RIMINI: Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta yesterday warned that the collapse of his government would undermine economic recovery and anger voters after local...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s struggling rival in next month’s general election attempted to revive his campaign at the weekend by attacking her...
BAKU: Thousands of Azerbaijani opposition supporters held a rare authorised rally yesterday to demand a free-and-fair presidential election scheduled for October in the...
Supporters of ousted president Mohammed Mursi during a protest in Roxy Square in Cairo yesterday. Supporters marched across Egypt in defiance of a...
The Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah with his French counterpart Laurent Fabius at the Foreign Ministry in Paris,...
Visitors and officials at the new Justice Ministry service centre at the Industrial Area. DOHA: The Ministry of Justice is decentralising its various...