- NGO says Israel army targets photographers at protests AFP - AFP - 2 hours 30 minutes ago
International press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders on Tuesday accused the Israeli military of deliberately targeting news photographers covering Palestinian … More »NGO says Israel army targets photographers at protests
- Iranian suspect held as blasts rattle Bangkok Anusak Konglang - AFP - 3 hours ago
A suspected Iranian bomber had his legs blown off as he hurled a grenade at Thai police Tuesday, officials said, with Israel accusing Tehran of being behind the third … More »Iranian suspect held as blasts rattle Bangkok
- Palestinian hunger striker to petition top Israel court AFP - AFP - 3 hours ago
The lawyer for an interned Palestinian who has been on hunger strike for 59 days said on Tuesday that he would ask Israel's supreme court to overturn a military order … More »Palestinian hunger striker to petition top Israel court
- Syrian activists resort to pigeons to communicate Jocelyne Zablit - AFP - 4 hours ago
Cut off by a relentless barrage of government shelling, activists in the besieged Syrian city of Homs have reverted to the age-old practice of using carrier pigeons to … More »Syrian activists resort to pigeons to communicate
- Jordan Pledges Fair Trial For Abu Qatada Mark White, home affairs correspondent - Sky News - 4 hours ago
A senior Jordanian government minister has told Sky News that the radical cleric Abu Qatada will receive a new, fair trial with full rights, if he is extradited to J … More »Jordan Pledges Fair Trial For Abu Qatada
- Bahrain police disperse protests on uprising anniversary AFP - AFP - 4 hours ago
Bahraini police dispersed protesters who made several attempts Tuesday to mark the anniversary of last year's uprising by marching to the site of the protest that was … More »Bahrain police disperse protests on uprising anniversary
- Egypt repeals death sentence of bombing suspects AFP - AFP - 4 hours ago
Egypt has quashed death sentences against three men convicted of involvement in attacks in the Sinai Peninsula after their trials were deemed unfair, the Egyptian Initiative … More »Egypt repeals death sentence of bombing suspects
- U.S. clarifies Iran sanctions bill enforcement Reuters - 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Tuesday clarified how it would enforce recently passed Iran sanctions legislation, including how the United States … More »U.S. clarifies Iran sanctions bill enforcement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Tuesday clarified how it would enforce recently passed Iran sanctions legislation, including how the United States would determine if another country has significantly reduced oil purchases from Iran. "We are working intensively to implement the (National Defense Authorization …
- Syria rejects UN charges as Homs battered AFP - AFP - 5 hours ago
Syria flatly rejected UN charges of crimes against humanity on Tuesday, even as monitors said troops killed at least 18 civilians, six in the heaviest shelling of the … More »Syria rejects UN charges as Homs battered
- Bombing puts India's trade ties with Iran to the test Mayank Bhardwaj - Reuters - 5 hours ago
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's determination to pursue trade with Iran despite Western sanctions could be undermined as wary exporters back away from fresh deals after … More »Bombing puts India's trade ties with Iran to the test
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's determination to pursue trade with Iran despite Western sanctions could be undermined as wary exporters back away from fresh deals after a bomb attack in New Delhi blamed on Tehran, a trade association chief said on Tuesday. Up to now India has not gone along with new financial sanctions imposed …
- UN prosecutor to issue new Hariri indictment: PM AFP - AFP - 5 hours ago
A UN-backed court probing the assassination of Lebanon's ex-premier Saad Hariri will issue a new indictment in the case by the end of this month, Lebanese Prime Minister … More »UN prosecutor to issue new Hariri indictment: PM
- Conflict flares across Syria, Arabs mull arms support Erika Solomon and Angus MacSwan - Reuters - 5 hours ago
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Government forces and opponents of President Bashar al-Assad clashed in cities and countryside across Syria Tuesday and Arab officials confirmed that … More »Conflict flares across Syria, Arabs mull arms support
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Government forces and opponents of President Bashar al-Assad clashed in cities and countryside across Syria Tuesday and Arab officials confirmed that regional governments would be ready to arm the resistance if the bloodshed did not cease. The western city of Homs, heart of the uprising against Assad's …
- Life in Syria unbearable, say refugees in Jordan Kamal Taha - AFP - 5 hours ago
Haurani fled Syria to escape a lethal crackdown in his country, joining some 3,000 compatriots who have taken shelter in Jordan. His brother, who stayed behind, was killed … More »Life in Syria unbearable, say refugees in Jordan
- Gaza power grinds to a halt for lack of fuel AFP - AFP - 6 hours ago
Gaza sole power plant ground to a halt on Tuesday after it ran out of diesel, an energy authority official said, calling on Egypt to intervene to resolve the crisis. More »Gaza power grinds to a halt for lack of fuel
- Boxer Klitschko fears Syria-like revolt in Ukraine AFP - AFP - 7 hours ago
Ukrainian boxing star Vitali Klitschko warned Tuesday that a "bloody uprising like in Syria" could start in his home country, which he said is now run by a "totalitarian … More »Boxer Klitschko fears Syria-like revolt in Ukraine
- Iraq aims to more than double northern oil output AFP - AFP - 7 hours ago
Iraq aims to more than double northern oil production from around 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) to about 1.3 million bpd by the end of 2014, executives from the Northern … More »Iraq aims to more than double northern oil output
- Iran to unveil nuclear 'achievements' Wednesday AFP - AFP - 7 hours ago
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to unveil several unspecified nuclear "achievements" on Wednesday, his government's website said. More »Iran to unveil nuclear 'achievements' Wednesday
- Iraqi fighters, arms trickle into Syria as violence grows Khalid al-Taie - Reuters - 8 hours ago
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Weapons and Sunni Muslim insurgents are seeping from Iraq into Syria, Iraqi officials and arms dealers say, fuelling violence in a country that … More »Iraqi fighters, arms trickle into Syria as violence grows
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Weapons and Sunni Muslim insurgents are seeping from Iraq into Syria, Iraqi officials and arms dealers say, fuelling violence in a country that once sent guns and militants the other way. The revolt against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has struck a chord with Sunni tribes in Iraq's border provinces …
- Tunisia court acquits Libyan ex-PM AFP - AFP - 8 hours ago
A Tunisian court cleared Libyan former prime minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi on Tuesday on a charge he had crossed illegally into Tunisia as he fled Libya last year, … More »Tunisia court acquits Libyan ex-PM
- Oliver Stone's son converts to Islam in Iran AFP - AFP - 9 hours ago
US filmmaker Sean Stone, son of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, converted to Islam on Tuesday in Iran, where he is making a documentary, he told AFP. More »Oliver Stone's son converts to Islam in Iran
- Kuwait forms new cabinet with 10 fresh faces AFP - AFP - 9 hours ago
Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah named a new cabinet on Tuesday with 10 new faces, including the oil and defence ministers, and no women, despite objections … More »Kuwait forms new cabinet with 10 fresh faces
- Bomber Hunted As Tehran Denies Delhi Attack Sky News - 9 hours ago
Iran has denied being behind a bomb attack on an Israeli diplomatic car in India, as police hunt a "very well-trained" assassin. More »Bomber Hunted As Tehran Denies Delhi Attack
- Israel forces raze illegal settler outpost AFP - AFP - 9 hours ago
Israeli forces razed three temporary structures comprising a wildcat settler outpost near the West Bank city of Ramallah early on Tuesday, an Israeli spokesman told … More »Israel forces raze illegal settler outpost
- Dubai's Emaar posts 27% drop in 2011 net profit AFP - AFP - 10 hours ago
Dubai-based real estate giant Emaar Properties announced Tuesday a 27 percent drop in 2011 net profit to $489 million. More »Dubai's Emaar posts 27% drop in 2011 net profit
- UK minister seeks Qatada deal in Jordan AFP - AFP - 10 hours ago
A British minister headed to Jordan Tuesday to seek a deal that would allow London to extradite Abu Qatada, as the Islamist cleric once dubbed an aide to Osama bin Laden … More »UK minister seeks Qatada deal in Jordan
- Man killed planting bomb in Yemen polling booth Fawaz al-Haidari - AFP - 10 hours ago
A man was killed Tuesday when a bomb exploded as he was planting it in a polling booth in Yemen's southern city of Aden, a security official said, amid rising tension … More »Man killed planting bomb in Yemen polling booth
- 'Wax museum' offers window to Iraq's past Amelie Herenstein - AFP - 11 hours ago
Baghdad's version of a wax museum features figures who depict Iraq's past, rather than replicas of celebrities like Michael Jackson, offering a distinctly different experience … More »'Wax museum' offers window to Iraq's past
- Russian general: Iran's enemies to decide course soon Steve Gutterman - Reuters - 11 hours ago
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's top general said on Tuesday that he expects Iran's enemies to decide in the next few months how to deal with a nuclear programme that the … More »Russian general: Iran's enemies to decide course soon
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's top general said on Tuesday that he expects Iran's enemies to decide in the next few months how to deal with a nuclear programme that the United States and Israel have said they might attack. In remarks that come as Russia has been voicing its differences with the West on various issues in the …
- Valentine's Day finds a niche in Islamic Iran AFP - AFP - 12 hours ago
Iran may reject Western influences, but Valentine's Day has become a growing phenomenon thanks to the romantically minded youth of the Islamic state's affluent class … More »Valentine's Day finds a niche in Islamic Iran
- China's Wen says urgent to prevent chaos in Syria Lucy Hornby and Ben Blanchard - Reuters - 13 hours ago
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Tuesday it was urgent to prevent war and chaos in Syria and vowed to work through the United Nations to seek an … More »China's Wen says urgent to prevent chaos in Syria
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Tuesday it was urgent to prevent war and chaos in Syria and vowed to work through the United Nations to seek an end to civil strife in the country. His comments came days after China and Russia blocked a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that backed an Arab plan …
Israeli vice prime minister Silvan Shalom on Tuesday called on the international community … More »Israel vice PM calls for tougher Iran …


















































