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Five UAE Officials among Dead in Kandahar Bombing

Five officials from the United Arab Emirates were among the dead in a bombing in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the Emirates’ official WAM news agency said on Wednesday. The officials were “on a mission to carry out humanitarian, educational and development projects”, the news agency said. UAE President ...

January 11, 2017

Europe

Lavrov, Turkish FM Cavusoglu Discuss Syria Ceasefire in Phone Call

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu discussed in phone talks on Tuesday the implementation of the nationwide ceasefire regime in war-torn Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. After Moscow-Ankara-Tehran negotiations on Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on December 29 that the Syrian government and ...

January 10, 2017

Lebanon

Lebanese President Michel Aoun and Saudi King Salman

Saudi Unblocks Military Aid to Lebanon: Lebanese Source

The Lebanese-Saudi Summit has winded up with both sides voicing eagerness to bolster bilateral ties in an attempt to “bring back relations to their normal course,” NNA field reporter said on Tuesday. The Saudi King confirmed his country’s refusal to meddle in internal Lebanese affairs, and reiterated his country’s keenness ...

January 10, 2017

Middle East

Cassation Court Upholds Death Sentences against 3 Defendants over Al-Daih Blast

Bahrain’s Court of Cassation upheld on Monday (January 9, 2017) the death sentence against three defendants over Al-Daih blast that killed an Emirati officer and two policemen. Advocate General at the Public Prosecution’s Technical Office Haroon Al Zayani said that the Court of Cassation upheld the death sentence against three ...

January 10, 2017

Live News

New UN chief calls for ‘whole new approach’ to prevent war

New UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for a “whole new approach” to prevent war, in his first address to the Security Council since taking office. Guterres took over from Ban Ki-moon on January 1 with a promise to shake up the world body and boost efforts to tackle ...

January 10, 2017

Middle East

ISIL claims deadly attack on Egypt police in Sinai

ISIL terrorist group said Tuesday that it was behind the car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula that killed eight people a day earlier. The group’s Egyptian branch, Sinai Province, said in a statement that “soldiers of the caliphate” had staged the assault on the checkpoint ...

January 10, 2017

Middle East

Suspect Killed in Attempted Attack on Turkish Police Station

A man suspected of trying to force his way into a Turkish police station in a city near the Syrian border was shot dead on Tuesday, local officials said. An officer was lightly wounded in the shootout at a security checkpoint outside the police headquarters in the southeastern city of ...

January 10, 2017

World

Russian chief of general staff Valery Gerasimov

Moscow Says US-led Action in Syria Ineffective

Russian military officials on Tuesday slammed US-led coalition action against ISIL ‘jihadists’ in Syria as having had “less than zero” impact, and added that a US air strike killed 20 Syrian civilians this month. Russia’s involvement in that country since September 2015 had “changed the course of fighting terrorism in ...

January 10, 2017

World

Blast in Afghan capital, Kabul (archive)

Twin Blasts Kills, Injures Dozens near Afghan parliament in Kabul

At least 21 people were killed and 45 wounded in twin bombings near the Afghan parliament in Kabul on Tuesday, a security official told AFP. “The blasts left 21 people dead and 45 others wounded, most of them civilians including parliament employees,” the official told AFP, requesting anonymously.

January 10, 2017

Lebanon

President Aoun Talks Cooperation during Saudi Visit

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Monday that his visit to Saudi Arabia was aimed at improving Lebanese-Saudi ties and expanding cooperation between the two countries in all fields. “I came to the kingdom to dispel ambiguities. I carry (nothing but) friendliness and honesty towards the Saudi people,” Aoun told ...

January 10, 2017