Blog List Layout

CAIRO — In almost three years as supreme guide of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Mehdi Akef has changed the face of the underground movement into an openly active player on the political scene. “He is definitely the most audacious leader,” Diaa Rashwan, senior researcher at the Ahram Centre for Strategic …

Speaking to FNA on Saturday, assistant mayor of Mashhad for planning Mansour Mahdizadegan said that the decision was made during a visit to the Malaysian capital by a high-ranking delegation from Mashhad’s municipality. He said the 6-day visit was aimed at discussing potentials and appropriate opportunities for the two sides’ …

LONDON (AP) — The detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay is unacceptable and counterproductive, Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Thursday, underlining an increasingly critical British line on the US camp in Cuba.

FATA BORNO  (AP) — A 10-year-old boy huddled behind African Union soldiers as half a dozen pickup trucks full of armed Arab militiamen screeched through the dusty riverbed outside his North Darfur refugee camp Wednesday. “These Janjaweed aren’t the most dangerous ones,” Najmaddin Idriss whispered as he stood behind the …

According to a statement released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Information and Press Bureau, Per Stig Moller made the remarks in a phone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki on Tuesday. The top diplomat further stressed that the Danish Premier has also described the measure as unacceptable and improper.

“The world will enjoy true peace and security in case the big powers, the US in particular, are disarmed. Hence, worldwide nuclear disarmament is the solution to the establishment of global peace and security and this must first start with those world powers who own such weapons,” Gholam Hosein Elham …

During the one-day meeting, Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi is due to brief the convention about the measures the Islamic Republic has so far taken for the settlement and management of the affairs of foreign immigrants in Iran.

“Utilization of divine blessings is the legal and international rights of all the world nations and the superior powers should not deprive them of this right on futile excuses,” Rafsanjani stated during a meeting with a group of medical students here on Monday. He further praised the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), …

The comments by Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hameneh came after a swathe of conflicting reports over Inpex’s final stake in Azadegan oil field, which was agreed at 75% when the two-bln-dollar deal was signed in 2004. The share of Inpex “has been cut from 75% to 10% in the project …

China has beamed a ground-based laser at U.S. spy satellites over its territory, a U.S. agency said, in an action that exposed the potential vulnerability of space systems that provide crucial data to American troops and consumers around the world.