LONDON (AFP) - (AFP) - A Saudi prince accused by a British newspaper of ordering police to gun down unarmed demonstrators during this year's Arab uprisings won "substantial" libel damages Wednesday over the allegations.
Independent Print Ltd, publishers of The Independent newspaper, and its Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk expressed "sincere apologies" at London's High Court over claims ma [...]
LONDON (AFP) - (AFP) - Mohamed Bin Hammam tried to bribe officials in his campaign to oust Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, according to a secret report by the organisation's ethics committee obtained by Britain's Press Association.
There was "comprehensive, convincing and overwhelming" evidence against Bin Hammam, the head of the Asian Football Confederation, and former FIFA vice-pr [...]
LONDON (AFP) - British Prime Minister David Cameron was expected to discuss the crackdown on anti-regime protesters in Bahrain during talks with the Gulf state's crown prince on Thursday.
Bahrain has been strongly criticised by international human rights groups for its crackdown, which has included requesting troops from neighbouring Saudi Arabia to help put down protests against th [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Britain and France next week for talks on the peace process, his office said on Tuesday.
"The prime minister will meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and discuss diplomatic issues with them," the statement said.
No dates or other details were given in the state [...]
MISRATA, Libya (AFP) - A rebel official in Libya's besieged city of Misrata desperately pleaded Tuesday for Britain and France to send in troops to help against the forces of strongman Moamer Kadhafi, saying "if they don't, we will die."
In what was the first request by any insurgents for boots on the ground, a senior member of Misrata's governing council, Nuri Abdullah Abdullati, s [...]
TRIPOLI (AFP) - The leaders of Britain, France and the United States said a Libyan future including Moamer Kadhafi is "unthinkable", as Russia charged Friday that NATO was exceeding its UN mandate in Libya.
On the ground, Libyan rebels fired off barrages of rockets from the edge of Ajdabiya as they advanced towards the key eastern oil refinery town of Brega, while Kadhafi's forces w [...]
LONDON (AFP) - Britain warned Tuesday against all but essential travel to Syria after a bloody weekend crackdown on anti-regime demonstrators.
"In light of the deteriorating security situation in Syria we have decided to change the overall level of our travel advice: we now advise against all but essential travel to Syria," Foreign Office Minister for Middle East and North Africa Al [...]
LONDON (AFP) - Libyan former foreign minister Mussa Kussa is leaving Britain on Tuesday for talks in Qatar ahead of a meeting there of an international contact group on Libya, the Foreign Office said.
"We understand that he is travelling today to Doha to meet with the Qatari government and a range of other Libyan representatives to offer insights in advance of the contact group meeting," a Fore [...]
LONDON (AFP) - A British court ruled Friday in favour of a Jordanian man jailed for 45 years in 1986 over a plot to bomb an Israeli airliner who is challenging government attempts to block his early release.
Two judges at the High Court in London decided that Nezar Hindawi, who is serving what is thought to be the longest jail term ever imposed by an English court, had been subjected to f [...]
TRIPOLI (AFP) - Colonel Moamer Kadhafi urged world powers meeting Tuesday in London to end their "barbaric" offensive against his oil-rich country as his forces beat back a rebel push on his home town Sirte.
The Libyan strongman likened the NATO-led air strikes targeting his artillery and ground forces to military campaigns launched by Adolf Hitler during World War II.
"Stop your barbari [...]
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