TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - A top Iranian lawmaker denied Wednesday he had said the oil-rich country had decided to resume petrol imports, after the oil minister said Iran was "self-sufficient."
"I do not confirm the report regarding petrol imports into the country," Nasser Soudani, deputy chairman of parliament's energy commission, was quoted by the state television's website as saying.
"Unfortuna [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt's leading human rights groups said on Wednesday they will complain to the United Nations that the ruling military and cabinet are cracking down on civil society groups.
The military has accused its critics of receiving foreign financing and the government earlier this month announced an investigation into their funding.
The complaint, provided to journalists, said " [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - A senior Palestinian official said on Wednesday that he hoped the great majority of countries would back a Palestinian membership application to the UN next month.
"We hope for the vote of more than 150 countries for recognition of the state of Palestine on the 1967 borders with its capital in east Jerusalem as a full member at the United Nation [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Twelve people, among them six policemen, were killed and 14 others wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq on Wednesday, security and hospital officials said.
Six policemen were killed when a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives Wednesday night at a police checkpoint in Ramadi, 100 kilometres (60 miles) west of Baghdad, an officer said, adding tha [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Security forces shot dead a woman and beat up Syria's best-known political cartoonist on Thursday, a day after violence in which 11 civilians and eight soldiers were killed, activists said.
The woman was shot dead during a military operation in a village near the eastern oil hub of Deir Ezzor, 460 kilometres (285 miles) northeast of Damascus, said the Britain-based Syri [...]
ADEN (AFP) - (AFP) - An air strike Wednesday in Yemen's southern restive province of Abyan killed six suspected Al-Qaeda fighters, a tribal source said, but failed to confirm whether it was a Yemeni or a US raid.
The raid was carried out in Al-Arkub, a stronghold of the extremist network, the source said.
"Six fighters of Al-Qaeda were killed in an air strike on Al-Arkub," a mountainous area n [...]
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - (AFP) - Ousted Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam has appealed his lifetime ban from football over accusations he sought to buy votes in this year's FIFA presidential election, he said Thursday.
Writing on his personal blog, bin Hammam vowed defiantly to fight on in an ugly split with FIFA President Sepp Blatter that has tarnished the football body's reputation and hig [...]
GENEVA (AFP) - (AFP) - World governments should do more to help the 12 million "hidden population" of stateless people often living without basic rights, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said Thursday.
"A stateless person is effectively someone who does not exist," Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Erika Feller told reporters.
"We assess there are around 12 million [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Eight Syrian soldiers, including an army officer, have been killed in separate attacks in the country's central province of Homs, the official SANA news agency reported Thursday.
"In an ambush Wednesday afternoon at (the town of) Talbisa, terrorists fired on a military bus killing one officer and two soldiers and wounding seven others," said a military official quoted b [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Security forces shot dead a woman and beat up Syria's best-known political cartoonist on Thursday, a day after violence in which 11 civilians and eight soldiers were killed, activists said.
The woman was shot dead during a military operation in a village near the eastern oil hub of Deir Ezzor, 460 kilometres (285 miles) northeast of Damascus, said the Britain-based Syri [...]
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