Iran summoned Denmark’s ambassador to Tehran, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union (EU), on Tuesday to voice protest against the 27- nation bloc’s oil sanction against Tehran, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. During the meeting with the ambassador, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali-Asqar Khaji voiced Tehran’s protest against what he [...]
Iran’s Oil Ministry said the European Union’s (EU) oil embargo on the Islamic republic is a political game, the local satellite Press TV reported Tuesday. The EU has used the non-political issue of oil as a tool for political objectives, the ministry said in a statement on Monday, adding that such “hasty” decisions will impact [...]
Hamas allowed Palestinian Central Elections Commission (CEC) to open its offices in the Gaza Strip Tuesday, practically implementing an article of a reconciliation deal with rival Fatah movement, a CEC official told Xinhua. The official said that Hamas gave the keys to the offices to a representative of the commission. Hamas took over the CEC [...]
Visiting Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmoud Abbas said here on Sunday that the Palestinian authorities are ready to continue peace talks with Israel. “We will continue the dialog and we will continue the (peace) talks because we consider this to be the only way to a peaceful resolution,” Abbas told reporters after his meeting [...]
The Saudi administrative investigation department is investigating an Asian worker who remitted some SR800 million. The Asian worker was caught red-handed while conducting several bank wire transfers through Saudi banks. He managed to wire the money to various destinations in Dubai, Malaysia, India and Syria by depositing checks in different bank branches. Three other suspects [...]
The Kingdom has decided to withdraw its observers from Syria because the mission has failed to end 10 months of bloodshed. Saudi Arabia will call on the international community to apply “all possible pressure” on Damascus to end the violence, said Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal. Hundreds of Syrians have been killed since the observers [...]
Iraqi authorities banned Sunday visits by individuals to ex-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussien’s grave after more than two years of banning organized visits in Salahudin province, a provincial police source said. “The Iraqi cabinet directed authorities of Salahudin province to take all necessary measures to prevent any visit to Saddam Hussein’s grave,” a source from the [...]
A total of 17 people died after a passenger boat sank off the Iranian coast, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday. The boat with 22 passengers and crew members on board, moving from Hormuz Island to the port city of Bandar Abbas in the Persian Gulf, sank due to the stormy weather condition [...]
Egypt’s newly-elected People’s Assembly (lower house of parliament) started its first session on Monday with the main agenda of selecting its speaker and two deputies, state TV reported. The Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, has nominated the party’s Secretary General Mohamed Saad Katatni as its candidate for the speaker [...]
Five people were killed in a fire that broke out in a three-story building at the Fatih district of Turkey’s largest city Istanbul on Monday, local newspaper Today’s Zaman reported on its website. The building, which is located in Kucuk Dolap Street at the Yavuz Sinan neighborhood of the district, was engulfed in flames within [...]
