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WASHINGTON: US air marshals subdued a Qatari diplomat on a flight to Denver Wednesday in a bomb scare triggered after he reportedly smoked a cigarette and joked he was trying to light his shoes, officials said. There were no reports of an explosion on the plane, which landed safely at Denver International Airport from Washington’s [...]
BAGHDAD: The case of “collateral murder,” the WikiLeaks today released harrowing until-now secret video of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter in Baghdad in 2007 repeatedly opening fire on a group of men that included a Reuter’s photographer and his driver. This is the most shocking footage to come out of Iraq. None of the members [...]
TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that world pressure on Iran, including talk of new sanctions, makes the Islamic republic more determined than ever to pursue its nuclear programme. His defiance came after US President Barack Obama vowed to ratchet up global pressure on Tehran to abandon its controversial atomic programme which he said [...]
RIYADH: Muslim scholars from around the world who met this week in Saudi Arabia’s holy city Medina have denounced “terrorism” and appealed to “extremists” to repent, a statement said on Thursday. The four-day Islamic conference, sponsored by Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz and organised by the Islamic University of Medina, drew some 500 [...]
DUBAI: Seventeen Indian nationals have been sentenced to death for killing a Pakistani man in a turf dispute between bootleg liquor gangs in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, local media reported on Monday. The Pakistani man was beaten to death with metal bars in January 2009, while three others were injured in the attack, [...]
JERUSALEM: Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has moved to ease tensions with the US, describing the two countries’ relations as those of “allies and friends”. Mr Netanyahu also dismissed reports one of his confidants called US President Barack Obama a “disaster” for Israel. The US has criticised the building of Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, which [...]
BAGHDAD: Former premier Iyad Allawi on Saturday began talks which could last months to form a government after narrowly edging out incumbent Nuri al-Maliki in Iraq’s parliamentary elections. “There must be a strong government, capable of taking decisions which serve the Iraqi people, and bring peace and stability to Iraq,” Allawi told a press conference [...]
JERUSALEM: Four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers died in clashes on the Gaza border on Friday, an army general said, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu consulted his security cabinet on US pressure on settlement building. “An officer and a soldier were killed and two others slightly wounded in an exchange of fire with terrorists planting [...]
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Tuesday in a bid to ease strained ties but with dim hopes for any breakthrough in the
LONDON: Britain announced Tuesday it was kicking out an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake British passports in the killing of a Hamas chief in Dubai, in a sharp escalation of tension triggered by the murder. Foreign Secretary David Miliband said there were “compelling reasons” suggesting that Israel was to blame for the forgeries [...]
GAZA CITY: An Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip overnight injured four people, Palestinian security officials and witnesses said Tuesday. The Israeli army confirmed the air raid and said it hit a weapons storage facility. The four casualties, including a woman, were slightly hurt by shell fragments when an Israeli aircraft fired a missile [...]
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s president on Sunday called for a recount in this month’s parliamentary elections, which have turned into a tight race between the prime minister and a secular rival amid accusations of fraud. A new count could further extend political wrangling in the contentious race. The demand from President Jalal Talabani came a day after [...]
RAMALLAH: UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday that the international community “strongly supports” Palestinian efforts to build a state and branded all Israeli settlement activity illegal. He kicked off a two-day visit to the Palestinian territories and Israel aimed at restarting peace talks by meeting Palestinian premier Salam Fayyad in the West Bank political [...]
JERUSALEM: Israeli aircraft hit a disused airport in southern Gaza on Friday night, injuring 11 people, two of them seriously, Palestinian medical officials and witnesses said. Four missiles hit the site, the witnesses said. The injured were all in the vicinity of the airport, near the town of Rafah. The facility itself has long been [...]
MOSCOW: The United States and Russia clashed over Iran’s first nuclear plant which Russia is helping build after strongman Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the station would come online this summer. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Moscow hoping to secure Russia’s support for a tougher line on Iran, said such a move would [...]
JERUSALEM: Riots broke out in Jerusalem and the West Bank yesterday as Palestinians staged a “day of rage” in protest at Israeli plans to build 1,600 new homes in the disputed east of the city. The announcement of the planned construction caused the worst diplomatic crisis in decades between Israel and its most important ally, [...]
TEHRAN: Iran has busted what it says was a US-funded cyber network group linked to an exiled opposition movement that collected data on its nuclear scientists, state media reported on Saturday. Thirty members of the network with links to the outlawed People’s Mujahedeen and monarchists have been arrested, Fars news agency said, quoting a statement [...]
DUBAI: Dubai’s police chief has accused Israel of “vast falsification” of travel documents, noting that dozens of false passports were uncovered following a Hamas leader’s murder in the emirate. “I ring alarm bells. Israel is falsifying Western passports on a large scale. We discover forged passports on a daily basis,” Dahi Khalfan told AFP. “The world [...]
OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS: US Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Israel and the West Bank , assuring Israelis in a newspaper interview that Washington would close ranks with them against any threat from a nuclear-armed Iran. Biden, the most senior US official to visit Israel since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, is [...]
TEHRAN: Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad on Saturday dismissed the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States as a “big lie,” state media reported. Ahmadinejad has on several occasions questioned the accepted version of the terror strikes on New York and Washington carried out by Al-Qaeda militants, which killed nearly 3,000 people. “September 11 was [...]
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