David Beckham revealed through different statements during an interview with the Spanish magazine, Semanal, that he thinks Real Madrid should give his former team mate at the club, Zinedine Zidane, some time in order to succeed; regardless of what happens in the upcoming Champions League final. Zida
Khartoum- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is challenging the International Criminal Court (ICC ) and planning to attend an AIDS conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York next month. The Sudanese presidency has announced that it applied for U.S. visas and is awaiting a response. Presidency sp
The Lebanese Hezbollah is challenging the repercussions of a US law targeting its finances by taking measures that have been described as harsh. According to available information, the group formed a “committee of financial and economic experts around ten days ago to examine the options available in
The top U.S. commander in Baghdad praised on Friday Iraqi ground forces for recapturing the southwestern town of Rutba after ISIS militants who had occupied it for nearly two years fled or put up only light resistance. Army Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland told reporters Friday that the army bolstered by U.
London- Portugal managed to keep its lights on with renewable energy alone for four consecutive days, last week, in framework of its first test to increase its investments to create energy. From Saturday until Wednesday the country used sustainable electricity on its own without referring to gasolin
Dammam- Bahraini Minister of Information Affairs Ali bin Mohammed al-Rumaihi declared that his country was successfully able to overcome the incidents of 2011 as a result of its wise leadership. Al-Rumaihi praised the role Gulf countries played in supporting Bahrain and helping stabilize the situati
Japanese developers of the fast-selling robot, Pepper, are currently requesting from the public to be creative and come up with ideas for what their waist-high humanoid can do. Moreover, Pepper’s developers are offering a software development kit for programmers to get imaginative. The Japanese robo
The Egyptian military said on Friday it had found parts of debris from the EgyptAir plane, which crashed a day earlier, 290 kilometers north of the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria. The navy has also found some of the passengers’ belongings and is sweeping the area looking for the plan
European Union interior ministers will support plans on Friday to make suspending visa-free travel with any third country easier and faster, officials said, amid expanding public concern about the rising scale of immigration. Meanwhile EU and Turkey have politically sensitive talks going on in regar
United Kingdom’s TV stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Helena Bonham Carter are names among many other prominent celebrities from the world of arts who have signed a letter urging Britons to vote to remain in the European Union. Many of Britain’s well known write
Tunisia- Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda party, headed by Rashid al-Ghannouchi, is expected to officially announce Friday during its 10th conference, which will be held in southern Tunisia, separating its religious activities from political ones and becoming a civil party. On March 1, 2011, after the gov
The U.S. military’s top general said Thursday that the Libyan government is in a “period of intense dialogue” that could lead in a short period of time to an agreement in which U.S. military advisers will be deployed there to support in the fight against ISIS. “There’s
Doha-Qatar’s capital witnessed on Thursday a Qatari-South African summit that discussed ways to improve ties in all fields mainly in business, economy and investment. Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and President of South Africa Jacob Zuma held official talks at the Emiri Diwan. The two sides e
Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon announced his resignation on Friday, citing poor faith in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who allegedly offered his post to hardliner Avigdor Lieberman. “I informed the PM that after his conduct and recent developments, and given the lack of faith
Brussels- Belgium’s Federal Police have charged a Belgian woman, whose son was killed in Syria, of involvement in financing terrorism and trying to recruit extremists. The police refused to give further details. Geraldine Henneghien told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper on Thursday that she is mulling alon
Washington- The U.S. State Department announced on Thursday the designation of ISIS branches in Libya, Saudi Arabia and Yemen as Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Such a move imposes sanctions and penalties on foreign persons that have committed, or pose a serious risk of committing, acts of t
Cairo- Egyptian authorities have not ruled out the possibility of a terrorist attack in the crash of an EgyptAir jetliner, which was en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard, in the Mediterranean Sea. Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said it was too early to rule out any explanation f
ISIS militants are gearing up for a series of bomb attacks on large crowds in France, host to next month’s Euro 2016 soccer championships, its spy chief has said. In a new form of attacks, ISIS will be targeting large crowds through placing explosive devices in places where people shall gather
U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura vowed on Thursday to take the “last resort” option of airdrops and air lifts if there is no improvement in access to besieged areas in Syria by June 1, and did not rule out overriding the government’s objections. He said without improved aid acce
When it turned out that 15 out of the terrorists who participated in the Sept. 11 attacks were Saudis, we realized at that time that we will be facing a long-term crisis in relations between the two countries, which have always been friends and allies. Years have passed since 2001, the investigation
