Saudi Arabia appealed Monday to the international community to beef up efforts to find a solution to the Syrian bloodshed even though the UN Security Council failed to support Arab efforts to end the crisis. “The failure of the deliberations of the Security Council to take a decision in support of the Arab initiative should [...]
Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas agreed at a meeting in Qatar on Monday to form a unified Palestinian government for the West Bank and Gaza headed by Palestinian President and Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas, a senior Palestinian official said. Abbas and Khaled Meshaal, head of the Islamist Hamas, said they were serious about implementing [...]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in the Syrian capital of Damascus Tuesday along with Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Director Mikhail Fradkov for talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the current situation in Syria, state-run media reported.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday that the European Union (EU)’s embargo on Iran’s oil exports to its member states will hit the European people. “I think more than anybody else this is for the loss of the European people,” the spokesman told reporters in his weekly press briefing. Asking the European officials [...]
A massive dust storm hit Jeddah Tuesday, disrupting road traffic and bringing public life almost to a standstill. Many schools suspended classes and informed parents to take their kids home well before the school day had ended, while some school authorities have declared there will be no classes on Wednesday. There were reports of intense [...]
Iraq has agreed with the Arab League (AL) to host the Arab summit in Baghdad on March 29, AL Deputy Secretary General Ahmed bin Helli said here on Wednesday. “I have agreed with the Iraqi leadership that the next Arab summit to be held on March 29,” bin Helli said at a joint press conference [...]
Iraq has again delayed an auction for a dozen oil and gas exploration blocks, because of changes in contract terms, a top official said on Tuesday. The bidding round had initially been scheduled for January, but theoil ministry delayed the auction to early March, then to April. “It will be held from May 30-31, due to [...]
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday officially launchedIran’s latest foreign-language news channel, a 24-hour satellite broadcaster aimed at Spanish speakers worldwide. “Viva España, viva America Latina,” he said in Spanish at the end of a televised speech to dignitaries attending the launch ceremony in Tehran. The state-funded channel, HispanTV, has already been test-broadcasting since mid-November from its offices [...]
The Palestinian leadership on Monday night held Israel responsible for the failure of the Jordan- sponsored exploratory talks that were launched in Amman on Jan. 3. The leadership of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said in a statement that the failure was because Israel insisted on the continuation of settlement and rejected the two-state solution based [...]
Iran will unveil a new domestically- built unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with high capabilities and versatile features, the local satellite Press TV reported on Monday. Mehdi Iraji, the aeronautics engineer in charge of the project, said that the new remote-controlled aircraft, called A1, has a maximum flight level of 10,000 feet, said the report. It [...]
