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 [...]
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 [...]
