GFH Capital stands to make a million pounds for each of the seven weeks it has owned Championship club Leeds United. The Bahraini venture capital company, which completed a takeover on 21 December, has been seeking "strategic investment" and is considering selling a majority stake.
Tuesday 12 February 2013
Head of political party offers £8,000 for author's body part over controversial novel
Monday 11 February 2013
A UK resident has contracted a potentially fatal Sars-like virus, health experts have confirmed.
Sunday 10 February 2013
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today that he was ready to hold talks with the US if the West stopped pressuring his country.
Thursday 07 February 2013
A tribunal at The Hague publishes a report illustrating the regime's crimes against humanity
Tuesday 05 February 2013
It is good news that Tehran has agreed to resume talks with the major world powers on its nuclear programme later this month. Dialogue between Iran and the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany broke down in Moscow last June in an atmosphere of frustration and anger. Now, with the second Obama administration in place, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, has said he hopes for progress when the talks convene in Kazakhstan.
Tuesday 05 February 2013
The US Vice President, Joe Biden, is in London today for a working lunch with David Cameron, on the last day of a tour of European capitals.
Thursday 24 January 2013
The Saudi national spent six years in Guantanamo Bay
Friday 18 January 2013
Both medieval and modern, Gulf rulers thrive. But will the sands of time soon run out for them?
Thursday 10 January 2013
The guerrilla war between the Turkish state and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) dates back to 1984. The government has often believed itself close to military victory only to see the PKK survive. Its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, has been in a Turkish prison since 1999, but the PKK remains the dominant political force among the Turkish Kurds, who number an estimated 14 million – or 18 per cent of Turkey’s population.
Monday 07 January 2013
The highest court in Bahrain has upheld the jail sentences of 20 opposition leaders accused of conspiracy to overthrow the government during pro-democracy demonstrations which began in February 2011.
Sunday 30 December 2012
Russia's foreign minister declared a deadlock on Saturday in the latest efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis, blaming the Syrian opposition for refusing to negotiate with the government and reiterating that Moscow will not force President Bashar Assad to leave.
Thursday 20 December 2012
Fighters from as many as 29 countries have filtered into Syria to join a civil war that has split along sectarian lines, increasingly pitting the ruling Alawite community against the majority Sunni Muslims, UN human rights investigators said today.
Thursday 06 December 2012
Rescue dogs learn how to drive cars
Friday 23 November 2012
A bomb blast in a Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus killed four people and seriously wounded a member of a faction that has backed Syrian President Bashar Assad in the country's bitter civil war, activists said today.
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