Middle East News

Saudi floods claim 103 lives, 1,400 rescued

Reuters - 44 minutes ago

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi emergency services said on Sunday the death toll from floods that tore through the port city of Jeddah this week had risen to 103, with another 1,400 rescued, the state news agency reported on Sunday. More »

  • Iran speaker warns West on nuclear cooperation

    Reuters - 1 hour 17 minutes ago

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's parliament could move to reduce Tehran's cooperation level with the U.N. nuclear agency watchdog if the West continues to pressure the Islamic state over its nuclear programme, speaker Ali Larijani said on Sunday.

  • File picture shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a joint press conference with Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani (L). Larijani warned on Sunday that Tehran could

    Iran warns of 'serious' drop in cooperation with IAEA

    AFP - 1 hour 36 minutes ago

    TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) - - Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani warned on Sunday that Tehran could "seriously decrease" its cooperation with the UN atomic watchdog after it issued a resolution condemning the Islamic republic for building a second uranium enrichment plant.

  • The government's chief legal advisor informed then prime minister Tony Blair, pictured, in 2002 that deposing Saddam Hussein would contravene international law, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

    Blair was told Iraq war 'illegal': report

    AFP - Sunday, November 29

    LONDON (AFP) - - The government's chief legal advisor informed then British prime minister Tony Blair in 2002 that deposing Saddam Hussein would contravene international law, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

  • U.S. hopeful of breakthrough in Iraq vote deadlock

    Reuters - Sunday, November 29

    By Ross Colvin

  • Saudis claim key mountain win over Yemeni rebels

    Reuters - Sunday, November 29

    MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Saturday it had taken control of a strategic mountain on the Saudi side of the border with Yemen, clearing the area of Yemeni Shi'ite rebels.

  • Religious, secular Israelis hold opposing protests

    Reuters - Sunday, November 29

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Several hundred Israelis protested in Jerusalem on Saturday against a campaign by ultra-Orthodox Jews to shutter all businesses in the city on the Sabbath.

  • Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh speaks to journalists in Vienna, November 27. Soltanieh reiterated on Saturday that his country would in future limit its cooperation with the agency to the terms of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, of which it is a signatory.

    Iran will make own nuclear fuel if IAEA deal fails: cleric

    AFP - Sunday, November 29

    TEHRAN (AFP) - - Iran will produce its own enriched uranium for a medical research reactor in Tehran if the UN atomic watchdog fails to provide the nuclear fuel, a senior hardline cleric said on Saturday.

  • CORRECTED - Israeli minister "optimistic" on prisoner swap deal

    Reuters - Sunday, November 29

    (Corrects Nov. 27 story, changing Ben-Eliezer title to trade minister, 2nd paragraph)

  • Iranian lawmaker: Iran could leave nuclear treaty

    AP - Sunday, November 29

    TEHRAN, Iran - A conservative Iranian legislator warned Saturday that his country may pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty after a U.N. resolution censuring Tehran _ a move that could seriously undermine world attempts to prevent Iran from developing atomic weapons.

  • British soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) pictured during a patrol in Baba Ji district of Helmand province in July after retaking the town from the Taliban some 45 days ago. Britain will host international talks on the Afghan conflict next year with the aim of setting clear goals to allow British troops to withdraw, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday.

    Brown aims to set Afghan goals for troops' exit

    AFP - Sunday, November 29

    PORT OF SPAIN (AFP) - - Britain aims to set clear goals in international talks on Afghanistan next year to aid the withdrawal of British troops from the conflict, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday.

  • Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gives Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (L) a replica of Simon Bolivar's sword and decorates him with the Order of the Liberator at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. Abbas thanked Chavez for supporting the creation of a future Palestinian state as he rounded out a five-nation tour of Latin America.

    Abbas thanks Venezuela for supporting Palestinians

    AFP - Saturday, November 28

    CARACAS (AFP) - - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas thanked Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for supporting the creation of a future Palestinian state as he rounded out a five-nation tour of Latin America.

  • Iranian rights activist Shirin Ebadi, seen here in June 2009, insisted on Friday that Tehran had confiscated her Nobel Peace Prize medal and rejected accusations about her tax affairs after her assets were frozen.

    Iran's Ebadi condemns 'illegal' assets freeze

    AFP - Saturday, November 28

    LONDON (AFP) - - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi on Friday accused the Islamic republic of acting illegally by freezing her assets and questioned the timing of its demand she pay substantial back taxes.

  • The outgoing head of the UN's atomic watchdog has expressed

    Iran condemned by UN nuclear watchdog

    AFP - Saturday, November 28

    VIENNA (AFP) - - The UN nuclear watchdog on Friday passed a resolution condemning Iran for secretly building a uranium enrichment plant and demanded the Islamic republic freeze construction of the facility.

  • Iran denies it confiscated Ebadi's Nobel medal

    Reuters - Saturday, November 28

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran Friday denied Norway's accusation that it had confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003.

  • Iranian rights activist Shirin Ebadi, seen here in June 2009, has vowed not to cave in to pressure from the Islamic republic despite the seizure of her bank accounts and Nobel medal, a report said.

    Ebadi defiant despite Iran assets seizure: report

    AFP - Saturday, November 28

    NICOSIA (AFP) - - Iranian rights activist Shirin Ebadi has vowed not to cave in to pressure from the Islamic republic despite the seizure of her bank accounts and Nobel medal, a report said on Friday.

  • Iraqi VP: No deal yet on election law standoff

    AP - Saturday, November 28

    BAGHDAD - A top Iraqi official warned Friday "it is too early" to claim a breakthrough in a political crisis over the fragile democracy's election law, all but assuring that a national vote will be pushed past its deadline.

  • Iran says expects Russian missiles within 2 months

    Reuters - Saturday, November 28

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Iran expects Russia to deliver powerful S-300 air-defence missile systems within two months despite fierce objections from the United States and Israel, Tehran's ambassador to Moscow said on Tuesday.

  • The outgoing head of the UN's atomic watchdog has expressed

    UN atomic watchdog censures Iran: diplomats

    AFP - Saturday, November 28

    VIENNA (AFP) - - The UN atomic watchdog passed a resolution censuring Iran over its nuclear programme at a meeting here Friday, diplomats said.

  • Israeli soldiers stand at a checkpoint in the Eilat Mountains near an Egyptian military post. Israeli troops foiled a suspected attempt to bomb the southern resort city of Eilat by a militant who attempted to infiltrate the desert border with Egypt, an army spokesman said on Friday

    Israel army says it foiled suspected bomb attack

    AFP - Friday, November 27

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - - Israeli troops foiled a suspected attempt to bomb the southern resort city of Eilat by a militant who attempted to infiltrate the desert border with Egypt, an army spokesman said on Friday.

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