TEHRAN: Iran said Tuesday it will not respond to international questions about the whereabouts of top opposition leaders who purportedly have been jailed and considers the matter a “completely domestic” affair.
UNITED NATIONS: Libya’s deputy UN ambassador said Tuesday that Muammar Qaddafi is trying to replace him and Ambassador Mohamed Shalgham because they have both called for an end to his regime.
WASHINGTON: US warships sailed toward Libya on Tuesday as Washington warned that the oil-producing North African country could descend into chaos unless embattled leader Muammar Qaddafi relinquished power.
RAMALLAH: The international media released a video showing occupation police arresting a 12-year-old child in Nabi Saleh village northwest of Ramallah, which seems to be a part of a campaign targeting child in territories where Palestinian peaceful resistance is taking place, while a settler ran over another boy of the same age with his car in Hebron.
AMMAN: Hundreds of relatives of Islamists jailed in Jordan on security charges demonstrated in front of the Grand Husseini Mosque in central Amman on Tuesday to press for their release.
JUBA, Sudan: At least 10 people died when a militia attacked a police post in a disputed area of Sudan, a southern government official said Monday.
MUSCAT, Oman: Omani security forces have blocked roads to a seaside town after deadly clashes between pro-democracy protesters and riot police.
AMMAN: Jordan's Foreign Ministry says four Jordanians have been arrested in Libya. Last week, Jordan urged Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to halt a bloody crackdown on his citizens. Jordan said it holds Libya responsible for the safety of foreigners living there.
CAIRO: Egypt’s top prosecutor seized all the funds of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak and his family on Monday and banned them from travel abroad, the latest humiliation for the once-powerful family.
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s prime minister called for new provincial elections Monday following anti-government protests that killed 14 people last week in a demonstration of the simmering anger many Iraqis feel at a government they say fails to provide basic services.
ABU DHABI: A Grumman 21T aircraft, en route to Riyadh from Al-Ain, crashed shortly after takeoff killing four US nationals on Sunday night.
ABU DHABI: Four Americans were killed when a Grumman 21T aircraft, en route to Riyadh from Al Ain, crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday night. The names of the victim were not immediately available.
JOHANNESBURG: Another of Muammar Qaddafi’s foreign envoys has called on the Libyan leader to resign.
GENEVA: The United States is pressing its European allies to set tough sanctions on the Libyan government, to turn up the heat on Muammar Qaddafi and convince his remaining loyalists to abandon the regime, US officials said. The Obama administration also declared it stood ready to aid Libyans seeking to oust their longtime leader.
MANAMA: Hundreds of anti-government protesters have blocked access to Bahrain’s parliament and forced officials to cancel a meeting of the ruler’s hand-picked envoys.
BAGHDAD: An Iraqi court has convicted a British man and sentenced him to 20 years in the shooting deaths of two contractors.
ABU DHABI: Four Americans were killed when a Grumman 21T aircraft, en route to Riyadh from Al Ain, crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday night. The names of the victim were not immediately available.
AMMAN: Jordanian leaders on Sunday urged the European Union to put pressure on Israel to stop all “unilateral actions” that hinder progress in peace talks, during meetings with visiting foreign ministers of Sweden and Portugal.
TEHRAN: Iran's Navy chief says he is seeking closer naval ties with Syria.
RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Sunday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's conditions to discuss the borders of future Palestinian state.
AMMAN: Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit pledged Sunday to give “priority” to the reactivation of the Arab-Israeli peace process despite the spate of uprisings that swept the region over the past weeks.
RAMALLAH: The Islamic Christian Commission in Support of Jerusalem and Holy Sites on Sunday warned that Israel is trying to impose de facto policy in Jerusalem by holding the International Tourism Conference in the city later next month.
DUBAI: Customs inspectors at Dubai International Airport foiled a bid to smuggle 51 counterfeit bank credit cards valued at AED1 million from two passengers who were coming from an undisclosed Asian country.
MUSCAT: Omani police fired rubber bullets on stone-throwing protesters demanding political reform in an industrial town on Sunday, killing two people, and the military moved in to secure the area, witnesses said. They said at least 1,000 protesters had gathered for a second straight day in a main square in Sohar before police tried to disperse them.
ANKARA: Necmettin Erbakan, a longtime leader of Turkey’s Islamic political movement and briefly the country’s prime minister in the first Islamic-led coalition in Turkey’s modern history — died on Sunday. He was 85.
BEIRUT: About 500 people waving flags and chanting for national unity gathered in Beirut in a protest inspired by the wave of demonstrations across the Middle East.
CAIRO: Egypt’s ruling military council is expected within the next week to call a referendum on constitutional amendments drawn up by an independent judicial committee, a member of the committee said on Sunday.
CAIRO: Soldiers used force on Saturday to break up a protest demanding more political change in Egypt in the toughest move yet against demonstrators who accused the country’s military rulers of “betraying the people.”
NALUT, Libya: The men, armed with handmade weapons, knives and automatic rifles, hunker down in an unfinished concrete building meant to one day be a hotel. They lie on mattresses, drink tea and take turns watching the long road to Tripoli for any sign of imminent attack.
TRIPOLI, Libya: Government opponents in rebel-held Zawiya repelled an attempt by forces loyal to Muammar Qaddafi to retake the city closest to the capital in six hours of fighting overnight, witnesses said Tuesday.
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CAIRO: Egypt’s top prosecutor seized all the funds of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak and his family on Monday and banned them from travel abroad, the latest humiliation for the once-powerful family.
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SANAA: Yemen's president has offered to form a unity government with opponents who want him out of office — provided protests against him stop.
MANAMA: Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman said Monday efforts were under way to launch talks with the opposition, which is demanding major political reforms amid a wave of anti-government protests. On Monday, anti-government protesters blockaded the country's Parliament and massed outside the state broadcaster
SOHAR, Oman: Protesters set a supermarket ablaze and rallied at two places in this seaside town on Monday in a third consecutive day of unrest that has included deadly clashes in the Gulf state.
TRIPOLI, Libya: International pressure on Muammar Qaddafi to end his crackdown on opponents escalated Monday as his loyalists closed in on rebel-held cities nearest the capital. The US moved naval and air forces closer to Libya and said all options were open, including the use of warplanes to patrol the North African nation’s skies and protect citizens threatened by their leader.
TUNIS, Tunisia: Tunisia’s embattled prime minister said Sunday that he will resign, bowing to a key demand of protesters after at least five people died in a groundswell of new unrest in this North African country.
MANAMA: A day after the return of pardoned opposition activist Hassan Mushaima to Manama, leaders of the opposition groupings met informally to discuss their future course of action.
JEDDAH: Egyptian expatriates in the Kingdom have expressed satisfaction over the announcement by Arab League chief Amr Moussa that he would run for president in the next elections and the military council’s decision to try major figures of the previous government.
MUSCAT: Oman deployed troops north of the capital Muscat and near the border with the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, following three straight days of anti-government protests, a government official said. Oman, ruled by a powerful family dynasty, is the latest Arab nation to be swept up in a wave of regional unrest that has already brought down two leaders and threatened the rule of others.
ISTANBUL: Huge throngs of mourners converged on a mosque Tuesday for the funeral of a former prime minister who laid the roots of political Islam in modern Turkey and inspired the current government in its struggle against military-backed secular circles.
