THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (AFP) - (AFP) - Terrified passengers jumped out of a plane in India on Monday after it skidded to halt on landing, trying to escape before emergency ladders were put in place, officials said.
Seven passengers were injured in the pre-dawn incident when the Gulf Air flight from Bahrain to Kochi in the southern Indian state of Kerala landed badly in wet weather conditions [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - (AFP) - A senior Saudi member of Al-Qaeda warned the interior minister that he should expel non-Muslims from the kingdom, among other demands to stop considering him a target, in an online audio message.
Ibrahim al-Rubeish, a former Guantanamo detainee, addressed Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz with seven measures which he considered essential for "reform" in the ultra-conservative Gul [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - Iranian HIV doctor Arash Alaei has been released from jail in Tehran after spending more than three years behind bars for allegedly conspiring against the regime, his US-based brother said Monday.
"He got released today," Kamiar Alaei told AFP in an email. "He was among 100 Iranian political prisoners who got a pardon today due to the coming end of the Ramadan religio [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Seven people were wounded early Monday when a Palestinian crashed a stolen taxi into a group of border guards outside a Tel Aviv nightclub, then attacked them with a knife, police said.
Four border guards and two would-be club goers were hurt in the attack which took place outside HaOman 17 nightclub in south Tel Aviv, police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP, saying one [...]
DUBAI (AFP) - (AFP) - Saudi Arabia announced Monday that the Eid al-Fitr feast marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan will be on Tuesday, in a statement aired on state television Al-Ekhbariyah.
Religious authorities in Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest shrines, said the new moon had been sighted and that Ramadan ends on Monday with the feast to follow the next day.
The Islamic cal [...]
LONDON (AFP) - (AFP) - Scotland will not seek the extradition of the Lockerbie bomber from Libya's new government, First Minister Alex Salmond said Monday, adding many felt he should be left to die in peace.
Salmond spoke after the brother of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of the 1988 atrocity, said the cancer-stricken bomber was drifting in and out of a coma and CNN r [...]
ANKARA (AFP) - (AFP) - Turkish jets bombed bases in northern Iraq used by the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in a fresh campaign last week that killed as many as 160 rebels, the military said Monday.
"Based on the results of exploration and target analysis work held between August 23-24, Turkish air force jets efficiently hit targets of the separatist terror organisation in the Zap a [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran will no longer negotiate a nuclear fuel swap with some of the world powers, its atomic chief said on Monday, adding however that it is ready for closer cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.
"We will no longer negotiate a fuel swap and a halt to our production of (nuclear) fuel," Iran Atomic Energy Organisation chief Fereydoun Abbasi Davani said in an interview wi [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syrian security forces killed six people on Monday, activists said as a Russian envoy visited Damascus and the EU moved to ban oil imports from the country over its brutal crackdown on protesters.
A child was among five people killed when troops and security forces opened fire during search operations in the Sarmin district of northwestern Idlib province, said the Syria [...]
BAGHDAD (AFP) - (AFP) - Dozens gathered at Baghdad's biggest Sunni mosque on Monday for the funeral of one of at least 28 people, including a lawmaker, killed in a suicide blast that has been blamed on Al-Qaeda.
The attack, the deadliest in Iraq in two weeks, came just days before the conclusion of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and the Eid al-Fitr festival that marks its end, and lef [...]
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