A Saudi court has sentenced to death an Al-Qaeda militant and jailed 10 others over a May 2004 attack that killed six Westerners and a policeman, state media reported. The defendants, seven of whom are brothers, were convicted of aiding assailants who…
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12 January 2014 – United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos sounded the alarm today on behalf of more than…
11 January 2014 – Saddened by the death of Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel, United Nations Secretary-General Ban…
Iran said on Sunday that an accord it struck with world powers on its disputed nuclear programme in exchange for an easing of sanctions will take effect from January 20. The United States confirmed the news although President Barack Obama warned of…
JERUSALEM — Dissonance. That is the word chosen by David Landau, the Israeli author and journalist, when asked to describe the essence of Ariel Sharon. “The dissonance between what people expected and what they got from him,” Landau said. The final…
Former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon died in hospital near Tel Aviv Saturday after eight years in a coma, prompting a flood of tributes in Israel but contempt from Palestinians. He was 85. “He’s gone,” his son Gilad told reporters at the Sheba Medical…
10 January 2014 – Strongly deploring recent clashes in the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah in Iraq’s Anbar province, the…
10 January 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency today warned that Israel could be breaking international law by limiting…
9 January 2014 – With the humanitarian situation in war-torn Syria “getting more difficult every day”, the head of the…
8 January 2014 – Despite a delay in eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons material, the United Nations Security Council expects that…