JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia yesterday welcomed the election of Nabih Berri as speaker of the Lebanese Parliament and Saad Hariri as prime minister and said the moves would strengthen the country’s security... Full Story
JEDDAH: Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah yesterday met with experts from WHO and other international agencies and discussed precautionary measures to prevent the spread of contagious diseases,... Full Story
AL-JOUF: Dissatisfied with the quality of public heath care, Saudis living in the northern region of the country resort to scrimping, saving and borrowing money to pay out-of-pocket for medical treatment... Full Story
A SCHEDULED independent inquiry into Britain’s role in the Iraq War is long overdue. The invasion of Iraq arguably constitutes Britain’s greatest blunder since the 1956 Suez Crisis, which... Full Story
TEHRAN: Iranian police were out in force across Tehran yesterday as the authorities upheld the official result of this month’s fiercely disputed presidential election over opposition protests. ... Full Story
NEW YORK: Convicted swindler Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison yesterday for a fraud so extensive that the judge said he needed to send a symbolic message to potential imitators and... Full Story
RAMALLAH, West Bank: Hours before Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak leaves for the United States, the Defense Ministry yesterday notified the High Court of Justice that in accordance with a 1996... Full Story
THE report on life in Gaza just issued by the International Committee of the Red Cross six months after the brutal Israeli attacks which killed between 1,100 and 1,400 people makes bitter reading.... Full Story
