A senior European diplomat said on Friday the ICC's prosecutor would likely seek President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's arrest in a new war crimes case he will open on Darfur on Monday. Sudan has said any such move could undermine the
Tensions over the nuclear standoff have again surged in the past two days after Iran test-fired a broadside of missiles - including the Shahab-3 which it says puts Israel within range - in war games that provoked international concern. The
Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and his Lebanese counterpart Michel Suleiman will meet in Paris today ahead of a summit of EU and Mediterranean leaders, the French president's office said. It will be their first meeting since Suleiman was elected
Haidar Ayub's once-beautiful house lies in ruins, with images of skulls - the emblem of the Israeli unit which stormed the village - emblazoned on the walls, which are pockmarked by shrapnel and bullet holes. Israeli troops based their headquarters
They considered the move as a step backward that highlights the government's intention to control civic organisations. In a statement issued recently, Minister of Justice and Islamic Affairs Shaikh Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa announced his permission to grant law
After years of being shunned by former French leader Jacques Chirac, Assad will be welcomed at the Elysee palace for talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy before joining some 40 other foreign leaders for a Mediterranean summit on Sunday. Assad will
Up to now we have seen nothing from the government," Sheik Ayad Abdul-Jabar al-Jabouri, wearing traditional headdress and robe, said with more than a hint of disdain for the Shiite-dominated leadership in the capital. The central government has made limited
He spends less time worrying about roadside bombs and battling armed extremists than on his previous two tours to Iraq, and he and his soldiers are happy about that. But now they are digging into less violent, albeit more complex
Army Major General Jeffery Hammond said the shadowy group is small and has demonstrated an unusual degree of military skill and cunning. "It's the greatest threat right now that we face," Hammond said, adding that the threat is less significant
Three months after a security crackdown in Iraq's oil capital of Basra, there are signs of economic revival. But investment to help secure the peace faces hurdles from bureaucratic inertia, lack of technical skills and foreign businesses' uncertainty about whether
Bahrain's initiative to host the centre was unanimously approved by the Unesco's World Heritage Committee (WHC) at its nine-day 32nd session in Quebec, Canada, that concluded on Thursday. Information Ministry's Undersecretary for Culture and National Heritage Shaikh Rashid bin Abdul
Any aggression or military action against Iran is an idiocy whose repercussions would hurt all," Iranian government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters. "I don't think that such craziness and nonsense will prevail or is doable militarily," he added. Tensions
Sudan has made a request to the secretary general of the League of Arab nations to hold this meeting," Sudanese ambassador to Egypt Abdel Moneim Mabruk told the Egyptian news agency. The report did not detail the exact aim of
Police were treating the incident, which left one officer in a serious condition with a gunshot wound to the head, as a "terror" attack although on Saturday they were still hunting the assailant, who fired from a Muslim cemetery under
The Jam-e Jam newspaper identified the man only by his first name, Babak. The report, quoting police, said law enforcement officials had recovered the bodies of six women wrapped in bedsheets from the streets of Karaj in the past six
Police opened fire on a group of African migrants who were trying to cross the border into Israel south of Rafah," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "One of the migrants, whose identity has not yet been established,
The UAE real estate sector attracted US $8 billion (SAR30 billion) of investment in 2007 from Saudi Arabia-based businesses, according to Dubai-based property developer, Durar Properties.
The first primary infrastructure contract along with the first building contract for the US $3.2 billion (BHD 1.2 billion) Diyar Al Muharraq project in Bahrain is expected to be awarded late next year.
