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Former TV journalist who made world news after throwing his shoes at former US President Georges Bush has announced he is running for May 12 parliamentary elections, saying he seeks to stamp out corruption and end presence of foreign forces Read more
Turkey’s main opposition party, Republican People’s Party (CHP), Friday picked Muharrem Ince to represent the party at June 24 snap presidential and parliamentary elections, to challenge incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who has been nominated as the ruling AKP candidate. Read more
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Wednesday told his host Benjamin Netanyahu that his country still believes in the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers despite Israel’s demand to see Japan walking away from it. Local Israel media Haaretz notes Read more
A Canada-based Libyan has lodged with Paris prosecution a complaint against Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar for torture practices and killings, including the slain of his mother, brother and sister in Benghazi during the army commander’s offensive against radicals. Ali Hamza Read more
Tunisian Authorities Wednesday announced they have identified alleged killers of Mohamed Zaouari; a Tunisian drone expert affiliated to Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, ruler of Gaza. Zaouari, 49, was gunned down by two masked men in December 2016 in the city Read more
A terror attack on the headquarters of the High National Elections Commission (HNEC) claimed by the Islamic State group (IS) left over 10 people dead and several wounded as the crisis-dogged country prepares for an electoral process with the aim Read more
Saudi billionaire Prince Al Waleed bin Talal has given up shares in Movempick Hotels and Resorts following another abandonment of stakes early this year. Al Waleed’s main business Kingdom Holding is on verge of selling the Saudi businessman’s shares in Read more
A high profile Iranian MP Tuesday pointed out that the Islamic Republic will appropriately respond to Israel’s air strikes, which killed several Iranian military personnel, in the second Israeli assault against Iran’s position in Syria in April. Three anonymous US Read more
Japan will not transfer its mission from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem like the United States and few other countries, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, according to the Palestinian Authority-run official news agency. The Japanese Premier ‘reassured’ Abbas at a Read more
Morocco has decided to sever its diplomatic relations with Iran in protest against the military support provided by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group to the Polisario separatists. The announcement was made Tuesday by Moroccan Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Bourita who informed Read more