Kerry off to Vienna for Iran nuclear talks as deadline looms
WASHINGTON : With next week’s deadline for an Iran nuclear deal fast approaching, Secretary of State John Kerry headed back to the talks in Vienna on Friday, this time leaning on crutches. On his first...
View ArticleUN mediator to travel to Riyadh and Sana’a seeking Yemen deal: spokesman
GENEVA: The United Nations envoy for Yemen will go to Kuwait on Saturday and then spend a week each in Riyadh and Sana’a to discuss a draft peace proposal on Yemen “until we reach a preliminary...
View ArticleIslamic State kills at least 145 civilians in Syria’s Kobani: monitor
BEIRUT: Islamic State fighters killed at least 145 civilians in an attack on the Syrian town of Kobani and a nearby village, in what a monitoring group described on Friday as the second worst massacre...
View ArticleSaudi-led jets bomb Yemen as Hadi government rejects new talks
SANAA: Air strikes by a Saudi-led force hit military bases across Yemen on Friday, residents told Reuters, and the country’s foreign minister was quoted as saying there was no need to convene another...
View ArticleTurkish foreign minister, U.S. Kerry discussed Kobani attack: Turkey officials
ANKARA: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have discussed the Islamic State attack on the Syrian town of Kobani and regional cooperation in a telephone...
View ArticleFrench beheading victim was boss of suspect – source
SAINT-QUENTIN FALLAVIER, France: The person found beheaded by the site of an industrial gases company in southeastern France was the manager of the man suspected of then ramming their delivery vehicle...
View ArticleBomber who ran away feeds fears extremists using captives
MAIDUGURI: A teenage girl strapped with explosives ran away from a crowded mosque this week, killing only herself and cementing suspicions that Boko Haram is using unwilling captives in its terror...
View ArticleGermany’s TUI offers to fly Tunisia tourists home
FRANKFURT: German tour operator TUI said on Friday that it is organising flight for tourists wishing to return from Tunisia after at least 27 people were killed in a gun attack at a Tunisian beachside...
View ArticleGunman kills at least 39, including Europeans, at Tunisian beachside hotel
TUNIS: A gunman disguised as a tourist opened fire at a Tunisian hotel on Friday with a weapon he had hidden in an umbrella, killing 39 people including Britons, Germans and Belgians as they lounged at...
View ArticleEGX shed 4B EGP in a week, benchmark dips 2%
CAIRO: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) lost ground and equities lost around 4 billion EGP ($524.88 million,) coupled with thin liquidity during the first week of Ramadan. Market capitalization declined to...
View Article31 tax evasion cases, valued at $14 m detected in 1 day: MoI
CAIRO: A total of 31 tax evasion cases valued at 103 million EGP ($14 million) were tracked on Friday, Interior Ministry said in a statement. The commercial and business-related tax evasion cases were...
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PM: Tunisia attacker had never traveled abroad
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The latest news from an attack on a beach resort in Tunisia (all times local): Tunisia’s Prime Minister says an initial investigation shows the gunman who killed at least 39...
View ArticleEgypt’s presidency condemns attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France
CAIRO: Egypt condemns the Friday “abhorrent terrorist attacks” that killed 67 people in Kuwait, Tunisia, and France offering sympathies and condolences for the victims of these “brutal terrorist...
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Police release 1 of 4 suspects held over France attack
LYON: A spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s office says one of the four suspects detained over an explosion and beheading in southeast France has been released, while the suspected assassin isn’t...
View ArticleKerry, Zarif see hard work ahead as nuclear talks begin
VIENNA: Senior U.S. and Iranian officials said much hard work still needs to be done to bridge significant differences on an agreement to curb Iran‘s nuclear program. With a deadline approaching on...
View ArticleEgypt slams annual U.S. human rights report, says “it lacks credibility”
CAIRO: Egypt rejected the annual report released Thursday by the U.S. department of state on human rights practices in Egypt in 2014, saying “it is inaccurate and lacks credibility.” “No country has...
View ArticleSyrian Kurdish forces expel Islamic State from Kobani: monitor
BEIRUT: Kurdish YPG forces expelled Islamic State fighters from Syria’s Kobani on Saturday and took back full control of the town on the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
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