JERUSALEM: Israeli police on Sunday sealed up the east Jerusalem home of a Palestinian attacker who killed seven people and wounded three outside a synagogue, one of several punitive measures approved by Benjamin Netanyahu‘s Cabinet overnight. The move came following a deadly weekend in which seven people were killed and five others wounded in two […]
JERUSALEM: Israel‘s military said it was boosting its forces in the occupied West Bank a day after a Palestinian gunman shot dead seven people on the outskirts of Jerusalem, and another shooting attack in the city on Saturday wounded two people. The attacks come towards the end of a month of growing confrontation and follow […]
ALEPPO: A building collapsed Sunday in Syria‘s war-damaged second city of Aleppo, killing 16 people including children, authorities and media reported. Much of Aleppo was destroyed during Syria’s conflict that began nearly 12 years ago and left many of the remaining structures in a decrepit state. “The number of victims of the residential building collapse… […]
NICOSIA: Cyprus has frozen about 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) in Russian-linked deposits and assets in accordance with European Union sanctions over the war in Ukraine, the island nation’s finance minister said Thursday.Constantinos Petrides also told a press conference that Russian deposits in Cypriot banks have fallen from a stunning 40% of the total before […]
NICOSIA: It is no secret that over the years almost all Middle East countries have been facing a huge brain drain, as a big proportion of their best and brightest students and scientists decide to leave their country forever and continue their career abroad.This means that Middle East countries lose thousands of talented people who […]
JERUSALEM: A hundred years after taking in scores of children whose parents were killed in the Armenian genocide, a 19th-century orphanage in Jerusalem‘s Armenian Quarter has reopened its doors as a museum documenting the community’s rich, if pained, history. The Mardigian Museum showcases Armenian culture and tells of the community’s centuries-long connection to the holy […]
CAIRO: An Egyptian military court on Sunday sentenced in absentia a Spain-based critic of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to life in prison over calls for anti-government protests, state media reported.Mohamed Ali, a construction contractor and fledgeling actor, burst onto Egypt’s political scene in 2019 when videos he posted on social media accusing Sisi and the […]
WASHINGTON: Republicans have launched an investigation into the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan that sparked a lightning takeover of the war-ravaged country by the Taliban and the death of 13 American troops in a terror attack.Michael McCaul, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, said Friday he had written to secretary of state Antony […]
TEHRAN: Iran executed a British-Iranian citizen, Alireza Akbari, over accusations of corruption and extensive cooperation with the British intelligence officers, CNN reported citing the Iranian judiciary-affiliated outlet Mizan on Saturday.The outlet posted two tweets, informing about the execution.Akbari was charged with “extensive cooperation with British intelligence officials” for which he was paid “large sums of […]
DUBAI: Iranian state media published a video on Thursday which they said showed that British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, who is in detention and sentenced to death for spying, played a role in the 2020 assassination of the country’s top nuclear scientist.In the video, Akbari did not confess to involvement in the assassination of scientist Mohsen […]
