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 [...]
A senior Israeli minister on Thursday said he planned to raise objections to a new European Union (EU) report calling for forbidding “violent Israeli settlers ” from entering member countries. “… I will be in the European Parliament at the European Union in Brussels, and I hope to present the real picture to European leaders,” [...]
Palestinians on Friday condemned the detention of their parliament speaker Aziz al-Dewik by Israel a day earlier. “This is part of Israeli pressure on the Palestinians to obstruct or affect the reconciliation,” said Nabil Abu Rdienh, spokesman for the Palestinian presidency, describing the arrest of al-Dewik as “piracy” and accusing Israel of using ways of [...]
The toll of the injured rose to 228 in Thursday’s earthquake in the northeast of Iran, the semi- official Mehr news agency reported Friday. An official in Iran’s northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi told Mehr that by 14:00 local time (10:30 GMT) on Friday, 228 people were reported as injured in Thursday’s earthquake. An earthquake [...]
Children, who have been smuggled into the Kingdom from neighboring countries, are making a lot of money through begging and do not want to leave Saudi Arabia, local daily Al-Eqtisadiah said Friday in an investigative report about the phenomenon. Many of these children, who were caught by the anti-begging security forces and placed into a [...]
Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said that Tehran is ready for nuclear talks with the world’ s major powers, the local satellite Press TV reported Wednesday. Iran is ready for multifaceted talks with world powers despite the recent assassination of an Iranian nuclear official, Salehi was quoted as saying. Earlier this month, the foreign minister [...]
Israeli bombing killed a Palestinian and wounded two in northeast Gaza Strip Wednesday, witnesses and security sources said. The witnesses said that helicopters and tanks fired shells at a group of Palestinians near the boundary between Gaza and Israel in Beit Hanoun town. Adham Abu Selmia, a medical spokesman, told Xinhua that the bombing killed [...]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal in Cairo next month, an official of Abbas’ Fatah party said Wednesday. Azzam al-Ahmed, a Fatah official, told Voice of Palestine Radio that the two leaders will meet to settle obstacles that delay the implementation of a reconciliation agreement brokered by Egypt in May [...]
