Four people, including a 16-year-old girl, were arrested on Friday by anti-terrorist police in the southern French city of Montpellier on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, police and judicial sources said. “An attack has been foiled,” said the sources, adding that the four were a
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday has approved a constitutional reform bill paving the way for an executive presidential system – a referendum on the issue was expected in mid-April, a senior government minister said. “With the president’s approval, eyes are now on t
London- Yemen’s government demanded that United States forces operative in the country refer to Yemeni officials before engaging in any military action, whether aerial or ground based. Coordination with Yemeni forces is to reduce risks of losing civilian lives. Yemen said it had not suspended counte
London- The European Union (EU) has granted a mobile app medical approval to be used as a contraceptive instead of pills. Natural Cycles is an app that uses body temperature to track a woman’s menstrual cycle and records daily temperature to determine whether users are fertile on any given day. It h
Riyadh – A new round of Saudi-Turkish economic discussions would be launched end of this month in Jeddah, to explore eight fresh investment opportunities in renewable energy, urban development, automotive industry and defense. Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, Chairman of Saudi-Turkish Business
Baghdad – Kata’ib Hezbollah Secretary General Bassam al-Safi, based in the Iraqi city of Basra, was shot dead Wednesday evening. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said that the assassination was staged by a dicey group aiming to provoke national strife. Kata’ib Hezbollah is a pr
U.S. President Donald Trump suffered another legal blow on Thursday when a court unanimously refused to reinstate his ban on refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries. The San Francisco federal appeals court’s ruling on Trump’s executive order — issued on January
Ramallah, Gaza – Israeli police arrested a Palestinian man in the West Bank who is accused of staging a shooting and stabbing attack in Petah Tikva in Tel Aviv, which left six people injured. Two women were wounded in the shooting while another man suffered injuries in the other attack, the po
Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump wrote a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, saying he was keen on developing a fruitful relationship that benefits both countries, according to the White House. In a statement, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that Trump has conve
“Lebanon’s De Gaulle!” This was the sobriquet that Parisian political circles used for General Michel Aoun as he arrived in France as an asylum-seeker in 1991. The sobriquet was not totally fanciful. Like De Gaulle, Aoun was a soldier, in his case having one star more than de Gaulle in 1940. Risking
Riyadh – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz received a telephone call on Thursday from United States Secretary of State, Rex W. Tillerson, reported the state-owned news agency SPA. During the telephone conversation, King Salman congratulated Tillerson on his appointmen
London- When you step into a huge robots’ exhibition at the Science Museum in London, you feel like it’s a pure technical exhibition that deals with innovations. However, this impression changes once you find out it’s about a “500-year quest to make machines human.” The “Robots” ex
Manama – In two separate operations launched Thursday in Bahrain, the security authorities obstructed prisoners and other fugitives from escaping to Iran, killing 3 of them and arresting 8 others, including a number of prisoners who had earlier escaped the Jau prison. Bahrain’s News Agen
Ankara, Beirut- The Turkish Army faced a bloody day Thursday in the countryside of Aleppo, in northern Syria, after a Russian warplane accidentally attacked Turkish soldiers while hitting ISIS positions around al-Bab city, killing three of them and injuring 11 others. The Turkish Armed Forces witnes
London- Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Iran’s Army Ahmed Reza Pourdastan said Thursday that the U.S. economic sanctions against his country aim to incite the Iranian people and encourage them to revolt against the regime. Speaking to army commanders in Tehran, Pourdastan said Iran could face economic
Ankara -The Turkish Government said it will increase contributors to its Sovereign Wealth Fund founded in August, so it includes companies and funds of foreign wealth. Turkish Minister of Finance Naci Agbal told Reuters that banks and foreign sovereign wealth funds are interested in cooperating with
Russian air strikes accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers and wounded 11 others when engaging in an operation against terror group ISIS in northern Syria on Thursday, the Turkish military said. “During an operation by a Russia Federation warplane against ISIS targets in the region of the
Five oil wells are reportedly still burning out of 25 that ISIS set on fire in Qayyara, south of Mosul, an oil ministry statement said on Thursday. State-run North Oil Company crews are working unremittingly to control fires torched by the hardline terrorists. ISIS militants seek to slow down the ad
Prosecutors in Belgium Thursday officially announced an undergoing investigation of a cyber attack on Brussels airport’s website the night after it was bombed by radical terrorists, following an admission by a U.S. youth that he had targeted the website remotely. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Inv
France’s Eiffel Tower, one of the world’s most famous landmarks, will get a glass wall built round its base under a plan to provide extra protection against terrorist attacks, a source in the Paris mayor’s office said on Thursday. “We have three aims: improve the look, make access
