Middle-East

CAIRO: Families of Egyptians killed in protests that unseated Hosni Mubarak reacted angrily in court yesterday when a judge trying the former president over the deaths b

SANAA: A Yemeni court yesterday ordered a new probe into the alleged involvement of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the killing of 45 protesters during the 2011 u

KHARTOUM: Sudan’s opposition alliance announced yesterday a 100-day plan for the peaceful overthrow of President Omar Bashir, who has been in power for more than t

WASHINGTON: Secretary of State John Kerry last month approved $ 1.3 billion in annual US military aid to Egypt, despite concerns over democratic progress by the country&

NEW YORK/MOSCOW: The UN said yesterday it could not accept Russia’s offer to replace peacekeepers from Austria in the Golan Heights because an agreement between Is

TEHRAN: In their third and final televised debate on Friday, Iran’s eight presidential candidates traded pointed accusations, including blaming one of their number

BEIRUT: Syrian government troops backed by Hezbollah guerrillas seized the western village of Buwayda on Saturday, extinguishing final rebel resistance around the town of Qusair in a fresh success for

A Muslim union headed by Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi yesterday called for a “Day of Rage and Support” for the Free Syrian Army (FSA) battling Syrian regime troops backed by a Shiite axis.

An envoy from Al-Azhar in Cairo, raised the prospect of restoring ties with the Vatican yesterday but called on Pope Francis to take “a step forward” by declaring that Islam is a peacef

CAIRO: Egypt’s President Muhammad Mursi rejected as “absurd” opposition calls for an early election less than a year into his term of office, charging in comments published yester