Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of war, Amnesty International concluded in a new report published this week....

Qatar Airways will begin operating flights to Australia before Christmas and in time for the holiday season....

Twenty seven retail food outlets in a Saudi Arabian city have been shut down by health...

Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said in a report released this week....

Twenty convicted drug traffickers were hanged Saturday in a prison in Karaj, a suburb west of this Iranian capital, the Fars news agency...

North Korea fired six missiles from its eastern coast Saturday, the South Korean defence ministry...

The Myanmar junta Saturday snubbed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's requests to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, or even to visit the Nobel peace laureate, who is currently in a Yangon jail, sources...

Islamabad, July 4 : The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will contribute 500,000 dollars to the United Nations (UN) Trust Fund, for a UN commission enquiry into the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's...

London, Jul 4 : Brit singer Peter Andre has revealed that even though he has gone through many troubled times, he found his split from wife Katie Price, aka Jordan, to have been "the worst few months" of his...

Lahore, July 4 : A travel agency scam has stranded as many as 800 Pakistani pilgrims in Saudi Arabia after their travel agents refunded their tickets in...

July 4, 2009 · Iranian-American Marzieh Hashemi was born in New Orleans but moved to Iran a year ago and reports for Iran's Press TV. As one of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad supporters,...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spent the final day of his trip to Iraq celebrating the U.S. Independence Day holiday with American troops in ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq on Saturday ruled out foreign involvement in its efforts to reconcile rival factions, just after visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden urged Iraqis to do more to bury...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi government is hoping that a second major auction of oil and gas fields later this year will help revive a struggling oil industry where a first auction this week fell...

(Inergize Digital Media) SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - A Yemeni aviation committee says pieces of wreckage from the passenger jet that crashed off the Comoros islands have been recovered. The committee...

Amman - Jordanian officials on Saturday said initial results from uranium exploration being carried out in a joint venture with the French nuclear company Areva in central Jordan were "promising"....

JERUSALEM: An Israeli submarine crossed through the Suez Canal last month as a part of a military training exercise, defense officials said on Saturday. The move is believed to have been made...

MORONI, Comoros — Doe Cyrille and his crew searched for hours in crashing winds and waves up to 16 feet high for any sign of Yemenia Flight 626. Then they spotted a girl impossibly clinging to a...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A newspaper editor seen as close to Iran's top authority said on Saturday defeated election candidate Mirhossein Mousavi and a former pro-reform president had committed "terrible...

(AP) — DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria's Health Ministry has confirmed the country's first case of swine flu. The ministry says an Australian woman of Syrian origin arrived in the country five days...

The lawyer of a detained Iranian employee of the British embassy in Tehran said his client had been charged with "acting against national security". Lawyer Abdolsamad Khorramshahi said his client...

RAMALLAH, July 4 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) plans to press Israel to release frequencies for an Arab mobile services provider which demands its license fees back from the...

A recent Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) global survey of 227 executives-in government, education, professional services, life sciences, and financial services-suggests that organizations in the...

Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, arrives to deliver his sermon during Friday prayers at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 3, 2009. Jannati, who is the head of the...

TEHRAN - Iran is considering pressing charges against a British embassy staffer, a Newsweek journalist and several reformist leaders, lawyers said on Saturday, as the regime intensifies its crackdown...

TEHRAN - Iranian Kurdish journalists Abdolvahed Hiva Botimar and Adnan Hassanpour have been jailed on charges involving possession of military grade weapons and providing information on military...

U.S. Senator John McCain Saturday repeated his party's calls for stronger support of Iran's protesters from the U.S. government. Speaking on behalf of the Republican party for the weekly radio and...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Shelvin Mack scored 14 points and Darius Miller just missed a double-double in the United States' 112-55 rout of Egypt in the final game of pool play Saturday in the...

Marjorie Benbow holds a magazine cover featuring her husband, Col. Hector Henry, 70, who is now deployed to Iraq with the U.S. Army Reserves Medical...

July 3, 2009 · Iraq's military pilots once enjoyed elite status in the country's armed forces. Then Saddam Hussein blundered: He flew the entire fleet to Iran for safekeeping during the 1991...

Trade Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer voiced harsh criticism on Saturday over America's inaction in the face of what he called North Korea's "blatant provocation"...

Batelco launches FT2000 Plus Umniah unveils two new murals in cooperation with ... Zain Bahrain adds new tune to its 'jukebox' STC reduces rates on calls to US Iran turns down...

July 3, 2009 · A top Iranian cleric said Friday that some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial. Britain is seeking a clarification of the...

T he soldiers expressed their gratitude over and over to the NFL coaches who made the trip to Iraq. "They kept thanking us," said the Tennessee...

JOHANNESBURG - Captain Ahmed Hassan insists struggling Egypt can reach the 2010 World Cup in South Africa ahead of a crucial qualifier against Rwanda in Cairo...

(RTTNews) - The British Foreign Office on Friday said it is investigating on newspaper reports that one of U.K. embassy workers detained in Iran, accused of "acting against national security", has...

Baghdad - US Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday said the United States was committed to withdrawing its soldiers from Iraq by the end of 2011. Speaking from Baghdad on US Independence Day, less...

Kuwaiti Mobile Telecommunications Co (Zain) has reportedly landed in trouble in Iran as the government says the company failed to “fulfill its obligations”, according to a...

John McCain called for Americans to support Iranian election protesters. The one-time presidential rivals both cited the spirit of the nation's founders in their Fourth of July radio and Internet...

Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, on Friday warned that an Iranian atomic bomb could "wipe Israel off the map in a matter of seconds," and that the Iranians could "accomplish in...

CrediMax, Bahrain's leader in card business, is all set to woo shoppers this summer by announcing its partnership with Bahrain City Center, the largest shopping mall in Bahrain and Visa International...

Agility, the global specialist in integrated logistics for businesses and governments, is pleased to announce it has been awarded Best Logistics Services Provider (BLSP) at the 3rd Annual Middle East...

Jul 4, 2009 - 03:28 - WAM Abu Dhabi, Jul 04th, 2009 (WAM)--Emirates World Humanitarian Mobile Hospital, has opened door for volunteering UAE national medical cadres at the UAE public and private...

By the end of this week, customers can become members of UrFilez, the first only on-line and Mobile Phone Social Community devoted to the rich, local music of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. ...

Priority Banking at Emirates NBD, one of the largest banks in terms of assets in the region, organized a networking event at the Regus Business Centre for highly placed professionals working in their...

Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari and a number of reformist leaders in Iran are to face trial accused of "acting against national security," their lawyer Saleh Nikbakht...

Last updated: 2:34 amJuly 4, 2009 Posted: 2:17 amJuly 4, 2009 Iran will stage a show trial of British Embassy staffers arrested for allegedly instigating postelection chaos, a top cleric announced...

TEHRAN - A leading Iranian daily called on Saturday for Mir Hossein Mousavi to be tried for treason, as hardliners stepped up their attacks on the opposition leader over the unrest that followed last...

Bahraini officials visited Israel in an official capacity for the first time on Friday to collect five of their nationals Israel was deporting, a Bahraini news report and an Israeli official...

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama has been squabbling with West European leaders over how to handle issues such as the global economic crisis and climate change, and those differences appeared...