Six people were killed and two others injured in a fire that took place Tuesday in a village in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir, the provincial governor said. The fire occurred early Tuesday in a house in Ilgin village of Diyarbakir’s Egil town, leaving six people, including four children, dead and two children injured, Diyarbakir [...]
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the British throne, opened the exhibition of “Haj: Journey to the Heart of Islam” in London’s British Museum Thursday night. “I wanted to pay tribute, if I may, to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques who, in accordance with Islamic teaching, generously hosts Hajis making the [...]
Powerful snowstorms hit most parts of Turkey, causing avalanches and fatal accidents on highways in Anatolia as well as grounding a ship in Istanbul on Friday and Thursday. One passenger was killed and more than 30 others injured when a bus skidded off the road and rolled over on its side near the Emirdag district [...]
Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) is to discuss a bill on Sunday that seeks to halt its oil exports to the European Union (EU), local satellite channel Press TV reported on Friday. Iranian lawmakers will discuss the bill that calls for a ban of oil exports to the EU as early as next week, Hossein Ebrahimi, deputy [...]
Chairman of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA) Prince Sultan bin Salman and Mayor of Berlin Klaus Wowereit Wednesday opened the “Roads of Arabia Exhibition” at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The exhibition aims to demonstrate the archeological richness and historical heritage of the Kingdom. The exhibition has so far traveled to France, [...]
Under the magnificent domed ceiling of the British Museum’s Reading Room the largest exhibition ever mounted on the subject of Haj opened Thursday morning. Soon after the doors opened visitors had already begun to fill the aisles and pause to wonder at the exhibits. “This is something very special,” said 22 year-old Tamara Smith from [...]
In a bid to stave off divisions within his cabinet, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday that he would bring a controversial military service law for parliamentary review. Earlier in the day, media reports emerged that the cabinet is expected to vote in favor of extending the Tal Law — which exempts the country’s [...]
China on Thursday criticized the European Union for banning oil imports from Iran, Beijing’s third biggest crude supplier and a major trading partner. The European Union agreed on Monday to ban imports of oil from Iran and imposed a number of other economic sanctions, joining the United States in a new round of measures aimed [...]
An Iranian F-14 fighter jet crashed in the country’s southern province of Bushehr on Thursday, both the pilot and the co-pilot were killed, local media reported. According to semi-official Mehr news agency, the plane crashed in the suburban of Bushehr city at 4:33 local time due to the technical problems.
Syria’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Damascus accepted the Arab League’s (AL) request of extending the Arab observers’ mission in Syria for another month, the state-run SANA news agency reported. Syria’s approval was conveyed in a message sent Tuesday by Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem to the AL chief Nabil al-Arabi, said SANA. The AL started [...]
