Middle Orient

King visits Talabani at hospital, doctor says president suffers from extreme exhaustion, dehydration BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s Shiite vice president narrowly escaped assassination Monday as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it was searched by US teams with bomb-sniffing dogs. At least 10 people were …

Mishaal in Moscow to enlist Russian help to end sanctions RAMALLAH — One Palestinian was killed yesterday in an ongoing Israeli military incursion into Nablus that started Sunday and which the Israeli army has described as “open-ended”. It is the largest Israeli incursion into the West Bank in months, with …

KING ABDULLAH AND Saudi King Abdullah on Monday held talks on developments in the Palestinian territories and Iraq, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. During talks in Riyadh, the two leaders stressed the importance of unifying Palestinian ranks and working with the international community to end the suffering of the …

Motivele” invadarii Irakului se razbuna acum, cand Administratia Bush incearca sa pregateasca terenul pentru o interventie impotriva Iranului * Mecanismul dezinformarii a fost demontat de celebrul Zbigniew Brzezinski si de o ancheta a Pentagonului Campania de dezinformare care a oferit Administratiei Bush justificarea atacarii Irakului a fost pregatita la Pentagon, …

Syria denied a published report that it is building up its troops along the Israeli border.Israeli Radio reported that Syrian Parliament member Mohammed Habash told Al Arabiya television that the country has not changed its troops along the border, denying a report from the Haaretz news service.

MP Mikhail Margelov, the chairman of the Federation Council (upper house of the Russian parliament) International Affairs Committee, met with the Iranian chairman of the Iran-Russia Parliamentary Friendship Group, MP Kazem Jalali, here on Tuesday.

Labor leadership candidate Ophir Paz-Pines launched his campaign on Wednesday by accusing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of being corrupt, Defense Minister Amir Peretz of causing damage and his party of being “addicted to power.”

Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, is getting his wish to serve in Iraq.The Ministry of Defence ended speculation that had been swirling for about a week by announcing Thursday the 22-year-old prince will be sent to Iraq with his Blues and Royals regiment in May or …

Close to half of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza suffer from malnutrition, according to a UN report that’s expected to come out soon,

Egyptian security forces arrested one of the two suspected Palestinian terrorists believed to be plotting suicide attacks on tourist sites in Sinai, Al-Arabiya television network reported on Thursday evening.