JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel announced it will allow all strictly "civilian" goods into Gaza while preventing certain weapons and dual-use items from entering the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave.
The new policy is a response to mounting calls to ease Israel's four-year siege on the coastal enclave after Israeli forces killed nine activists during a May 31 raid on a flotilla of aid ships attemp [...]
LONDON (AFP) - Former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi, who is locked in a struggle to form a new government after inconclusive polls, said in an interview Monday he had been warned of plots to assassinate him.
Allawi, who won the most seats in March elections but not enough to form a government on his own, told Britain's The Times newspaper that he had received warnings from American gen [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian police clashed with dozens of activists in central Cairo and arrested at least 30 on Sunday at a protest over the death of a man reportedly beaten by police, a police official said.
The confrontation took place when police moved in to break up the protest, the latest in a string of demonstrations over the death of 28-year-old Khaled Said.
Witnesses said police beat prote [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama will host Saudi King Abdullah in Washington on June 29, the White House announced Sunday.
Obama "looks forward to discussing with King Abdullah the strengthening of bilateral ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia as well as a range of common concerns related to Gulf Security, peace in the Middle East, and other regional and global matter [...]
SANAA (AFP) - Yemeni authorities have captured the mastermind of a suspected Al-Qaeda attack on the intelligence headquarters in the southern city of Aden that killed 11 people, the defence ministry said on Sunday.
"The security services have ... (captured) the leader of the terrorist gang that attacked the intelligence headquarters costing the lives of intelligence agents, women and chil [...]
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Kuwaiti MPs on Sunday approved a recommendation urging the government to shorten summer working hours to save electricity, as the emirate grappled with record heat and a major power crisis.
The non-binding recommendation that followed an emergency parliamentary session to discuss the power crisis called working hours for government employees to be changed from the pres [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel will allow all "civilian" goods into the Gaza Strip while still preventing weapons from entering the Hamas-run territory, a senior Israeli official said Sunday.
The new policy is a response to mounting calls to ease the four-year siege on the impoverished enclave after Israeli forces killed nine activists during a May 31 raid on a flotilla of aid ships attempting [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel on Sunday released one of several Hamas MPs arrested after Gaza militants captured an Israeli soldier in a deadly cross border raid in June 2006, prison authorities said.
Naif al-Rajoub was released into the occupied West Bank because it was "the end of his sentence," a spokesman said, without providing further details.
He was among more than 60 Hamas elected off [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - An oil spill off the Egyptian Red Sea coast of Hurghada threatening to damage marine life in the area has prompted environmental agencies to demand tighter regulation of offshore oil platforms.
Large quantities of oil have appeared in recent days around the resorts of Hurghada which draw millions of tourists who come to dive or snorkle, according to the Hurghada Environmenta [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Suicide bombers in two cars killed 26 people and wounded 53 in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday when they drove down a crowded street and blew themselves up simultaneously, security officials said.
The morning bombings, which came hot on the heels of attacks late on Saturday that killed seven people and wounded 20, underlined the dangers of a resurgence of violence amid [...]
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