Israel to free 26 Palestinians on Monday: Source

JERUSALEM: The 26 Palestinian prisoners Israel has agreed to free as part of ongoing peace talks will be released on Monday, a source in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said.Netanyahu had agreed to the release of 104 Palestinian prisoners...

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Syria 'unlikely' to meet chemical deadline: UN

UNITED NATIONS (United States): Syria is "unlikely" to meet a December 31 deadline to move its most dangerous chemical arms out of the country, the United Nations acknowledged for the first time on Saturday.The UN and the Organization for the Prohibition...

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Tens of thousands protest in Ukraine's Kiev

KIEV ( Ukraine): Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have gathered on the central square of Ukraine's capital, maintaining more than a month of rallies protesting the government's decision to shelve a key deal with the European Union.The...

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EU condemns attack on Iran exile camp in Iraq

BRUSSELS: The European Union called on the Iraqi government on Saturday to investigate last week's rocket attack on a camp holding exiled Iranian dissidents which left several people dead and many injured.A statement from EU foreign policy chief Catherine...

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Will attack rebel stronghold if ceasefire rejected: S Sudan

JUBA: South Sudan troops will attack the main stronghold of rebel forces loyal to former vice-president Riek Machar if the government's offer of a ceasefire is rejected, a senior minister said on Saturday.The government offered an olive branch to the...

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500 Chinese lawmakers quit over graft

HONG KONG: More than 500 municipal lawmakers in one Chinese province have stood down following an electoral fraud scandal, as Beijing ramps up its sweeping anti-corruption crackdown, state media reported on Saturday. The 512 municipal officials in China's...

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Iran developing new centrifuges

TEHRAN: Iranian nuclear chief said on Friday the country is developing a new generation of centrifuges for uranium enrichment.The Islamic republic currently has 19,000 centrifuges and is developing a new generation of centrifuges which needs all kinds...

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More Greenpeace activists leave Russia: Group

SAINT PETERSBURG: Five British Greenpeace activists and one Canadian flew out of Russia on Friday following an amnesty which halted their prosecution for a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic, the environmental group said.The activists took off...

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Thai army chief fails to rule out coup

BANGKOK: Thailand's army chief on Friday urged both sides in the country's bitter political dispute to show restraint, but did not explicitly rule out the possibility of a coup.Thailand has been wracked by two months of political tensions and occasionally...

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Thai poll body urges election delay after clashes

BANGKOK: Thailand's election commission urged the government Thursday to postpone February polls after dozens of people were injured in clashes between police and opposition protesters trying to disrupt preparations for the vote.Prime Minister Yingluck...

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6 Chadian peacekeepers killed in Central Africa

BANGUI: Six Chadian peacekeepers were killed by militia in the capital of Central African Republic during hours of sporadic fighting on Wednesday, a spokesman for the African Union peacekeeping mission (MISCA) said.The Chadians were attacked by "anti-balaka"...

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New MERS death raises Saudi toll to 57

RIYADH: Saudi health authorities announced Thursday a new MERS death, bringing to 57 the number of people killed by the coronavirus in the country with the most fatalities. The health ministry said in a statement on its website that a 73-year-old Saudi...

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3 Turkish Cabinet ministers resign over probe

ANKARA, Turkey: Three Cabinet ministers resigned in Turkey on Wednesday, days after their sons were taken into custody in a sweeping corruption and bribery scandal that has targeted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's allies in one of the worst political...

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Pope's Christmas wish: Hope for a better world

VATICAN CITY: In his speech on Christmas Day, Pope Francis said he hopes for a better world, including successful Middle East negotiations in the land of Jesus' birth, peace for Syria and several war-torn African countries, and dignity for refugees fleeing...

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Another dark Xmas for Iraq's Christians

BAGHDAD: It's Christmas in Baghdad, and once again Iraq's Christians are celebrating behind blast walls and barbed wire.At least 34 people died in bomb attacks in Christian areas on Wednesday, some by a car bomb near a church after a Christmas service....

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Russia closes first case against Greenpeace activists

MOSCOW: Russia has closed the criminal case against one of the 30 crew of a Greenpeace ship who were charged with hooliganism over a protest against Gazprom oil drilling in the Arctic, the group said Tuesday.The move, part of a Kremlin-backed amnesty,...

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China investigates vaccine maker after baby deaths

BEIJING (AP) _ China sent health experts to investigate a drug maker Tuesday to see if several recent deaths of babies were related to a vaccine they received in a government immunization program.A team of government investigators was sent to Biokangtai,...

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Israel launches airstrike in Gaza

JERUSALEM: The Israeli military says it has carried out an airstrike in the Gaza Strip in response to the deadly shooting of an Israeli civilian who was working along the border fence.The military gave no immediate details on the target of the airstrike...

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South Sudan prepares to wrest back rebel-held town

JUBA: South Sudan's army was poised for a major offensive against rebel forces, the president said Monday, as the country slid towards civil war despite international peace efforts.Expectations of a major upsurge in fighting came as the United Nations...

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Graft probe: Turkey PM vows to go after rivals

ANKARA: Turkey's prime minister on Sunday warned his rivals he would "break their hands" if they used a widening graft scandal to undermine his rule, as thousands of angry protesters called for the government's resignation."Everyone will know their place,"...

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Al-Qaida in Yemen apologizes for hospital attack

CAIRO: In a rare public apology, the militant leader of al-Qaida's branch in Yemen has said that one of his fighters disobeyed orders and attacked a hospital attached to the defense ministry during a December assault that killed 52 people.Qassim al-Rimi,...

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Al-Qaida apologizes for hospital attack in Yemen

CAIRO: In a rare public apology, the militant leader of al-Qaida's branch in Yemen has said that one of his fighters disobeyed orders and attacked a hospital attached to the defence ministry during a December assault that killed 52 people.Qassim al-Rimi,...

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Egypt court jails activists over protest

CAIRO: Three of Egypt's most prominent secular activists from the 2011 revolution against Hosni Mubarak were convicted on Sunday of holding a rally without authorization and attacking police officers, receiving a three-year prison term in the first use...

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13 charged over Bangladesh garment factory fire

DHAKA: Charges have finally been pressed against 13 people, including the owner of a garment factory, over a devastating fire that left 112 people dead as officials wrapped up an investigation more than a year after the horrendous tragedy.In November...

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Thai opposition to boycott polls

BANGKOK: Thailand's main opposition Democrat Party on Saturday announced it would boycott snap elections in the crisis-gripped kingdom, piling further pressure on the government as protesters prepared to ramp up rallies aimed at suspending democracy.Members...

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Greek Parliament passes property tax reform

ATHENS ( Greece): Greek lawmakers have passed a law on property tax, as demanded by the country's creditors, but the ruling coalition of conservatives and socialists has lost another member when a former conservative minister voted against it and was...

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Probe begins into ISI's rigging of 1990 Pakistan polls

ISLAMABAD: A probe has begun into the distribution of money among politicians by Pakistan's intelligence agencies in their bid to prevent Benazir Bhutto's party from winning the 1990 general elections, a media report said.The Federal Investigation Agency...

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Pregnant girls freed in Nigeria 'baby factory' raid

LAGOS: Nigeria's police said on Friday they had raided a home where 19 pregnant women were staying with plans to sell their newborns, in the latest discovery of a so-called baby factory.The owner of the property, suspected of being a broker in a child...

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British chef Nigella Lawson's staff cleared of fraud

LONDON: Two assistants to celebrity chef Nigella Lawson were cleared on Friday of defrauding her and her millionaire ex-husband after a trial that gripped Britain with tales of drug use and marital strife.Sisters Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo were...

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Hezbollah vows to 'punish' Israel

BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned on Friday that his Lebanese Shia movement will "punish" Israel for the killing of a top leader earlier this month."The killers will be punished sooner or later... Those who killed our brothers will not...

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UK royals' phones hacked by paper

LONDON: The phones of Prince Harry, Queen Elizabeth's grandson, and Kate Middleton, the wife of his elder brother Prince William, were hacked by staff working for Rupert Murdoch's defunct News of the World tabloid; it was revealed in a London court on...

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South Sudan unrest continues as army loses town

JUBA, SOTH SUDAN: South Sudan's military said on Thursday it no longer controls a key town in an oil-producing state where fighting has spread following what the president described as an attempted coup by soldiers loyal to a former deputy president."We...

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Shiites attacked in Iraq, toll rises to 22

BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt among Shiite pilgrims in Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 17 people, while militants shot dead a family of five, officials said.The attack on the pilgrims in the Dura area of south Baghdad took...

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Syrian planes pound Aleppo for fourth straight day

BEIRUT: Syrian warplanes dumped explosive-laden barrel bombs over opposition-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, the fourth day of a relentless offensive to drive rebels out of the contested city, activists said.The assault has killed...

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In US, dog saves blind owner

NEW YORK: Gallant guide dog Orlando, a black Labrador retriever, bravely leapt on to the tracks at a Manhattan subway platform on Tuesday after his blind owner lost consciousness and tumbled in front of an oncoming train.Cecil Williams, 61, and Orlando...

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$4.5m seized from bank chief's home in Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey: Istanbul police leading a major corruption and bribery investigation targeting allies of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have seized shoe boxes stashed with money totaling some $4.5 million in the home of the chief executive of a...

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