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Yemen marked its National Day of Unification under tight security at the Air Force Academy after a bomb explosion, a day earlier, claimed the lives of those at the rehearsals. It is celebrated annually on the 22nd May to mark Read more
A suicide bomber, dressed in a military uniform, has killed at least 101 Yemeni soldiers on Monday when he blew himself during a military parade rehearsal. No one has claimed responsibility for this deadliest attack since President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi Read more
The fiscal year of 2011 has ended at a record high for the Kuwait petroleum Corporation (KPC) with all the challenges that the world’s economy is facing. It achieved a profit on one billion dinars ($3.58 billion) during the 2011 Read more
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence official, convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday of cancer, leaving several questions unanswered as to real authors of the criminal act. This death closes a chapter but it doesn’t close the Read more
Control over oil in the autonomous region of Kurdistan has been a push-and pull between the central government of Iraq and the autonomous government of the region. It has resulted to the freezing of oil exports from the region because Read more
Saudi Arabia, the world’s major oil exporter & producer, is planning to build a new metro transit system in the capital Riyadh. An international tender has been launched by the Saudi authorities inviting “global consortia” to bid to provide “rolling Read more
The dispute over Western Sahara took a new turn when Rabat withdrew its confidence from United Nation’s envoy, Christopher Ross. He was sent as the UN Secretary General’s personal envoy to mediate between the two sides and help in finding Read more
The West Bank formed a new cabinet which was sworn in by Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah’s leader and President of the Palestinian Authority. The new cabinet comprises of 25 members and is tasked with taking up from where the former one Read more
The World Bank will grant US$6.5 million to finance a project aiming to increase the employment prospects of Palestinian students graduating from higher education institutions. The unemployment rate in 2011 was 21 percent with youth unemployment at 46.5 percent in Read more
Explosive devices have struck the vehicles of the UN monitors in different places across the country in recent days and some members of the team also got caught in the midst of gunshots. During a funeral ceremony, government forces opened Read more