Smuggled weapons and deadly explosives are still coming into Iraq from neighbouring Iran and continue to kill American soldiers, a top U.S. commander said on Thursday.

The chairman of the United Nations committee monitoring sanctions on Iran in relation to its uranium enrichment activities briefed the Security Council today on Member States’ implementation measures.

It took exactly half a century for the Metzger family to reclaim ownership of the Cecil Hotel, the illustrious palace overlooking Egypt’s Mediterranean and immortalised in Lawrence Durrell’s classic, “The Alexandria Quartet.” “I can’t believe it, after all these years of lost hope,” said Patricia Metzger, the British daughter in-law …