Dubai (dpa) – The head of the Dubai-based club Al Wasl, Marwan bin Bayat, Wednesday denied strains in ties with with coach Diego Maradona after the Argentine recently threatened to quit coaching the team over a restrictive budget for transfers. “Our relations with Maradona are strong. We are keen to eliminate all obstacles facing the [...]
SANA’A: A recent report published by the Seyaj Organization of Childhood Protection confirmed earlier findings from children’s agencies such as UNICEF that children in Yemen were bearing the brunt of the ongoing crisis, caught between a catastrophic humanitarian situation and military conflict. As often in such classic unrest, armed militias are using people’s financial precariousness [...]
CAIRO: Bahrain authorities deported 6 Americans from the country for allegedly lying on their visa application forms. Bahraini immigration said Tuesday in a statement that the Americans provided false information on the forms to obtain a tourist visa and stay in the country. They said they were visiting for touristic purposes, “but participated in a [...]
CAIRO: Sudanese telecom company Canar announced it had reached an agreement on Tuesday with Dublin-based technology company i-conX. The deal revolved around improving routing technology in Canar’s telecommunication infrastructure. Canar, which was established in 2005, was already an i-conX partner and had made several agreements improving quality of service and surveillance of it’s vast network. [...]
SANA’A: Yemen security sources at the port of Hodaida, west of the capital, Sana’a, revealed to Bikyamasr.com that following reports from the Yemeni Intelligence Services, the country’s seaport authorities had intercepted an Iranian ship loaded with weapons they believed was to be delivered to the al-Houthis fighters. Al-Houthis, a group of Shia dissidents, who for [...]
CAIRO: The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday warned that the levels of malnutrition and food insecurity in Sudan’s Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states could soon turn into a massive crisis if the international community does not address the issue immediately. The council said the problems are compounded by the lack of access by [...]
Beirut (dpa) – An explosion hit a gas pipeline in Syria’s restive central province of Homs on Wednesday, the second such blast in less than a week, opposition activists said. The area of Baba Amr, a district of the province’s capital, also called Homs, was “shrouded in black smoke,” activist Hadi al-Abdullah said. “People find [...]
New York (dpa) – The UN General Assembly was to vote this week on a resolution condemning the violent repression of opposition in Syria, a diplomat said. The assembly was expected to convene Thursday or Friday, a diplomatic source said late Tuesday. Its vote would follow the failure of the UN Security Council to pass [...]
DUBAI: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the country will announce and inaugurate new nuclear projects later on Wednesday, the country’s state media reported. It is unclear which projects will be announced, but many in the country expect the president to open the new uranium enrichment site at Fordo in the Qom province. The move [...]
Bangkok (dpa) – Police arrested an Iranian national at Bangkok’s airport after linking him with three explosions in the Thai capital and were searching for a third suspect Wednesday. The defense minister, Air Chief Marshal Sukhumpol Suwannathat, insisted Wednesday that the explosions were not acts of terrorism but failed to provide an explanation for Tuesday’s [...]
CAIRO: A teenager from Morocco has claimed to have hacked into a major adult site, a security firm said on Tuesday. Up to 350,000 user account information may have been compromised, the reports in the country stated. The hacker, a 17-year-old, posted the emails addresses, user names and passwords of the thousands of users online [...]
Moscow (dpa) – Planned sales of Russia’s top-of-the-line T-90S tanks to Algeria and Turkmenistan will earn Moscow a half billion dollars, Vedemosti newspaper reported on Tuesday. Algeria has agreed to buy 120 of the combat vehicles from Russia’s national arms exporter Rosoboronexport, while Turkmenistan will acquire 30 tanks, the article said. India and Russia each [...]
Amman (dpa) – Thousands of Jordanian teachers demonstrated in front of the prime ministry’s office on Tuesday to demand a sharp salary increase. The protest was the largest in series of demonstrations that started in Jordan a year ago, inspired by uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. The demonstration was the culmination of a week-long [...]
Berlin (dpa) – A member of Germany’s foreign service is to go on trial on charges of corruption for allegedly taking bribes worth thousands of euros in return for providing visas to Afghans heading for Germany, prosecutors in Berlin said Tuesday. The 41-year-old man acted as vice-consul at the Germany embassy in Dubai and was [...]
Beirut (dpa) – Syrian forces on Tuesday shelled the besieged city of Homs for a tenth consecutive day as the European Union prepared to impose a new round of sanctions on the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking in Berlin ahead of talks with Arab League head Nabil al-Arabi, said the [...]
Manama (dpa) – Bahraini police forces used tear gas to disperse protesters on Tuesday and made at least 20 arrests, as scores of people took to the streets of Manama to mark the first anniversary of anti-government demonstrations. Protesters tried to reach Pearl Square, the epicenter of last year’s Shiite-led protests against the kingdom’s Sunni [...]
CAIRO: Israel’s leading communications satellite company Spacecom, which operates the AMOS satellites across the world, hopes that recent discussions with South Sudan will help boost its role in the young country’s communications and telecommunications industry. According to a statement from South Sudan’s Ministry of Telecommunications, officials met and discussed potential cooperation on future communications projects [...]
London (dpa) – A senior British government official flew to Jordan on Tuesday for talks on the deportation of a radical Muslim cleric freed from a British jail after almost 10 years of detention without trial. The government in London confirmed that senior Home Office official James Brokenshire would seek further assurances from the Jordanian [...]
Amman (dpa) – The deficit in Jordan’s trade balance grew by 21.1 percent in 2011, according to official statistics released Tuesday. The trade gap, measuring the difference between imports and exports, stood at 7.34 billion dinars (10.37 billion dollars) in 2011 compared with 6.06 billion dinars in 2010, the Department of Statistics said. Economists attributed [...]
Tehran (dpa) – US filmmaker Sean Stone, the son of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, has converted to Islam and chosen Ali as his Muslim first name, the Iranian news agency Fars reported Tuesday. Stone converted to Shia Islam on Tuesday at the office of an Ayatollah in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, Fars said. [...]
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