Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit has
dismissed concerns in Arab countries that a proposed Euro-
Mediterranean union is a European attempt to control them and merge
them into an unwanted alliance with Israel, a local newspaper reported
Wednesday.
Abul-Gheit told Egypt's semi-official daily
al-Ahram that the new union was an extension of the Barcelona...
Two suicide bombers killed 22 people and wound
57 others in an attack Tuesday at an army recruitment station in Diyala
province, officials said.
Medical workers said the two attackers detonated their explosive
vests about two minutes apart in the attack at the Saad military
barracks in Baquba, capital of the province.
Diyala,...
Former British prime minister Tony Blair
cancelled a visit to the Gaza Strip scheduled for Tuesday morning,
Israel Radio reported. The radio would give no reason, but
one official speaking on condition of anonymity said the Israeli
authorities had warned Blair at the last minute of new intelligence
information from Gaza, as he was...
German judges gave 10 years jail Tuesday to
the chief plotter in a failed attempt to assassinate a prime minister of post-Saddam Iraq during a visit to Berlin four years ago.
Ata R, aged 34, was convicted of membership in a foreign terrorist
organization, the radical Iraqi Muslim organization Ansar al-Islam.
His fellow plotters,...
The Israeli cabinet Tuesday gave final approval for a prisoners exchange deal with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement.
Under the deal, Israel is to hand over five Lebanese prisoners and the
bodies of some 199 fighters, in return for two Israeli soldiers
captured in a July 2006 cross-border raid by Hezbollah.
The head of the Palestinian Fatah movement in
southern Lebanon said Sunday that the expected swap between Lebanon's
Hezbollah guerrilla movement and Israel will include the bodies of
Palestinian guerrillas who fell in Lebanon or carried out attacks
inside Israeli territories during the 1970s. 'Among the
bodies that Lebanon will...
Iran is to appoint Mohammad-Mehdi Akhoundzadeh as new spokesman of the foreign ministry, Mehr news agency reported Monday.
An official source told Mehr that Akhoundzadeh would replace
Mohammad-Ali Hosseini, who has been appointed deputy foreign minister
for legal and international affairs. Akhoundzadeh is a former
ambassador...
Iran is unhappy about ongoing indirect talks
between Syria and Israel and believes that any ensuing peace agreement
would lead to radical changes in Syrian-Iranian relations, an Iranian
official said in remarks published Monday. Hussein
Shariatmadari, an advisor to Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, told the Saudi...
His political future becoming increasingly
uncertain, Ehud Olmert was probed for a third time Friday on suspicions
that he illegally accepted at least tens of thousands of US dollars in
cash from an American fundraiser. Police questioned Olmert
for more than two hours at his Jerusalem residence Friday morning,
Police Spokesman...
Israeli police Friday announced new, 'serious'
suspicions of corruption against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israel
Radio reported. Olmert is suspected of claiming travel
expenses for trips made around the world as a public figure from
various bodies at once, the radio said, quoting a joint statement
issued by the Israeli justice...
A cautious calm prevailed over the northern
city of Tripoli early Thursday as weary citizens waited for the army
and security forces to carry out a redeployment plan and halt clashes
that have killed five people and wounded more than 80. The
Mufti of Tripoli, Sheikh Malek Shaar, told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa
that an 'agreement...
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