Baghdad - Iraqi lawmakers on Monday decided not to override Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi's veto of the country's elections law, al-Arabiya television reported. Instead, they sent an amended version of the law back to the Iraqi presidency for appro...
Baghdad - Iraqi lawmakers on Monday decided not to override Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi's veto of the country's elections law, al-Arabiya television reported. Instead, they sent an amended version of the law back to the Iraqi presidency for appro...
From Al-Arabiya: The Arab League is currently mulling several proposals after it was forced to step in, rebuffing a provocative Israeli offer, to end a bitter tit-for-tat spat between Egypt and Algeria following their 2010 World Cup qualifier playoff match in Sudan. An Arab League spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that since the tension has been rising Secretary General Amr Moussa...
According to the Saudi Network, al-Arabiya (via Ynet ), Gilad Shalit, Kidnapped by Hamas over three years ago, may be coming home as soon as this coming Friday. It will be a four-stage deal. Israel will release 450 terrorists, custody of Shalit will be transferred to the Egyptian Government. Israel will follow up by releasing the another 650 terrorists and Egypt will transfer Shalit to the Israel....
Remember how Abu Bluff said that he wasn't going to run again to be 'Palestinian President'? Well, he didn't tell a lie. Yet. You see, there aren't going to be 'Palestinian elections' anytime soon. This is from a Google translation of an al-Arabiya article in Arabic, hence the poor English: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that the presidential and legislative elections Palestinian was
Al Arabiya Meanwhile, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei rejected earlier on Friday imposing sanctions on Iran, saying they would make Tehran more hawkish. ElBaradei added that he hoped for an agreement with Iran on an offer to send enriched uranium abroad for further processing before the end of the year. “It is a unique [...]
Quote: "The call of the muezzin will not sound here" Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz on Tuesday told voters that the call of the muezzin, or Muslim imam who calls people to prayer, would not sound in Switzerland, as he campaigned against a referendum motion seeking to ban the building of minarets. "Muslims should be able to practice their religion and have access to minarets in Switzerland...
Barack Obama has talked about 'respect' on his Asian tour, but risks getting into a muddle over its meaning After respectfully bowing to the emperor of Japan last week, President Obama travelled on to China where both countries agreed that "the fundamental principle of respect for each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity" was at the core of China-US relations. Obama is big on respect....
Yemen's Houthi rebels have Pakistani fighters in their ranks, press reports revealed Sunday, as Saudi Arabia arrested a sorcerer on its border with Yemen attempting to plant magic spells in the conflict zone in support of the rebel group. Pakistani fighters are helping the Houthi rebels with their conflict against Saudi Arabia, Al Arabiya TV reported, [...]
Saudi, UAE top gulf cyber-crime victims Saudi Arabia was ranked first and the United Arab Emirates second as the most vulnerable of the Gulf countries to fall victim to cyber crimes, such as website hacking, according to a statistics report recently published by Trend Micro. In Saudi Arabia 796,000 cases of computer system crashes instigated by hackers were recorded in the past nine months, accounting...
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent a message to Syria that Israel would discuss a Golan Heights pullout to advance peace, Arab media reported. Satellite television channel Al Arabiya reported Thursday that the message, expected to be delivered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Syrian President Bashar Assad, indicates Israel’s willingness to withdraw from the Golan [...]
During a week in which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pay visits to Paris successively, both men have talked about the possibility of renewing peace talks between their countries. Arabic-language satellite TV channel al-Arabiya reported, citing "knowledgeable sources", that Netanyahu told his host, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on Wednesday...
Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office denied a report in the Arabic-language newspaper al-Arabiya that Israel would agree to surrender the strategic Golan Heights in return for a peace treaty, Arutz 7 reports. The platform of the Prime Minister’s Likud party specifically states that his Government will not withdraw from the area. “The subject of the negotiations...
UK's Oxford defends Iran protester scholarship from al-Arabiya reports that Oxford University has set up a scholarship in honor of Neda Agha Soltan, the young Iranian woman murdered during the Iranian election protests. Why don't American Ivy League schools do...
Angelina Jolie has reportedly begun the process to adopt a seventh child from Syria. But she signed the papers alone, which naturally leads to some speculation. Al Arabiya reports: After making it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]