BEIRUT (AFP) - A landmark visit by Syrian and Saudi leaders may have helped to ease tensions in Lebanon, but did little to address the crux of the problem in the long-run, analysts said on Saturday.
The Shiite militant group Hezbollah continues to warn against its implication in the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri, however, sparking fears of yet another conflict in the t [...]
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) - A Lufthansa cargo plane that crashed at Riyadh's airport this week did so due to a bad landing by its pilots, the first results of a Saudi probe showed on Saturday.
"When landing at King Khaled International Airport, the aircraft struck the runway which destroyed the undercarriage and caused it to slide off the track," the head of Saudi Arabia's civil aviation s [...]
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SANAA (AFP) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday accused the northern Shiite rebels of rejecting a February truce, through repeated acts of aggression.
"In their latest acts of aggression, the Huthi rebels attacked the MP Saghir Bin Abdel Aziz in his home and army units," Saleh said in a speech reported by the state news agency Saba.
"The state has abstained from all militar [...]
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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi soldiers arrested two suspected insurgents behind a brazen series of attacks in Baghdad this week that killed 16 people and wounded 14 others, a security official said on Saturday.
The pair were arrested as a result of security camera footage that showed insurgents setting alight three dead soldiers and planting Al-Qaeda's flag, a defence ministry official said, spea [...]
BINT JBEIL, Lebanon (AFP) - Qatar's emir on Saturday made a high-profile visit to south Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold destroyed in a 2006 war with Israel and whose rebuilding the emirate is helping finance.
"Lebanon is still facing many challenges, primarily the choice of its citizens to maintain the nationalism and Arabism of Lebanon," said the emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani.
L [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - More than three years after he was arrested on vague allegations, Saudi political detainee Suliman al-Reshoudi who has yet to be tried or even charged with a crime is now taking on the system.
Although his situation is not unusual for political prisoners in Saudi Arabia, the former judge is suing the security police and interior ministry to either charge him or release him. [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Hamas vowed revenge on Saturday after Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed a senior militant and wounded eight other people.
The overnight Israeli raids came after a rocket fired from the strip hit a southern Israeli city.
One Hamas militant was killed in an airstrike on a caravan near the Magazhi refugee camp in the centre of the Palesti [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's main economic partner China has invested around 40 billion dollars in the Islamic republic's oil and gas sector, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday.
Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Noqrehkar Shirazi also said that Tehran's oil exports to China fell by 30 percent in the first six months of 2010 compared with the corresponding period last year.
"The volume (of Chi [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanon's press on Saturday appeared unimpressed by the outcome of a historic Syria-Saudi-Lebanon summit, saying it failed to address key issues linked to rising tensions in the country.
"The core problem in Lebanon of how an Iranian-Syrian-allied armed Hezbollah can coexist with the Lebanese state remains unresolved and will rear its head again soon," wrote journalist Rami [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has hanged a convicted rapist and three drug traffickers, the hardline Kayhan newspaper reported on Saturday.
Yousef Fardi was found guilty of rape and hanged on Thursday in the northern city of Qazvin, the newspaper said.
It said the others, identified only by their initials as A.A., S.Z. and S.M., were hanged in the city of Ahvaz in the southwestern province of Kh [...]
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