Riyadh-Head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Didier Burkhalter, said that his country is ready to play its traditional role as a neutral country and to contribute actively in reducing political tension in the Middle East through close cooperation with Saudi Arabia; its strategic p
Beirut, Riyadh-Lebanon has become under the “Gulf Review” after the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council have declared their backing up for Saudi Arabia’s decision to halt a $4bn arms deals with the Lebanese Armed Forces and Internal Security Forces. Therefore, they issued a statement saying: “Th
There is no appropriate description for the current tragic Lebanese situation which led to the issuance of the predicted Saudi decision to conduct a reconsideration of its relations with Lebanon; a decision that perhaps is more drastic than the despair of the Lebanese Minister of Justice, Ashraf Rif
British Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday has called for a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union to take place on 23 June, underpinning the fact that this step could have far-reaching consequences for Britain’s unison and for the viability of the world’s biggest
Riyadh- Lebanese politicians have long cautioned of the consequences of Hezbollah’s methods, especially going too far when targeting Saudi Arabia. Riyadh always lent out a helping hand to Lebanon, which is a country severed by partisanship. Riyadh has taken a decision to halt its military support fo
FIFA has rejected a demand from a presidential candidate to use transparent voting booths at next week’s election to make sure that delegates do not photograph their ballot papers when they choose the head of soccer’s world ruling body. The request came from Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of
Syria’s opposition has agreed on Saturday to the “possibility” of a two- to three-week truce, on condition that Damascus’s allies including Russia would lift sieges and cease fire, allowing aid deliveries across the country, a source close to peace talks said on Saturday. Rus
Afghan troops have pulled out of bases in Musa Qala, a strategic district of the southern province of Helmand, after months of fierce clashes with Taliban insurgents, officials said on Saturday. Helmand, a traditional heartland of the Taliban and one of the world’s biggest centers of opium pro
Russia has decided to take its differences with Turkey to the UN Security Council which was scheduled to convene an emergency closed-door session yesterday evening on the Syrian crisis and Turkish operations on Syrian land in particular. In a memorandum that was sent to the presidency of the Council
Cairo- The League of Arab States (LAS) announced on Feb.20 that Nabil Elaraby LAS Secretary-General has received a phone call from Salaheddine Mezouar, Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, who expressed Morocco’s apology for not being able to host the Arab League Summit. The convention was supposed
Cairo- The U.S. air force on Feb.19 clamped down a house believed to harbor a group of extremists in Sabratha city, located in the northwestern corner of modern Libya near borders with Tunisia. The airstrike left 41 dead and 6 injured. Sabratha Mayor Hussein al-Thawadi described the site as an ISIS
Two days after Apple was ordered by a US court to help FBI investigators unlock the iPhone of Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik who together killed 14 people at a Christmas party at the end of last year and after the emergence of a clear split amongst Americans between supporters of phone user
Yemen’s central bank has told traders and local banks it will stop proving lines of credit for the import of sugar and rice at the official exchange rate, merchants and local bankers said on Friday. With this move taking immediate effect, it is likely that the country’s humanitarian cris
An Aston Martin DB10 car designed for the latest James Bond film “Spectre” has sold at auction for some $3.5 million. The DB10, one of only two “show cars” from the 10 made especially for the film, outdid its reserve price of 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 pounds, as it was sold for
Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinians in separate incidents on Friday in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, police and the military said. In Jerusalem, another Palestinian man stabbed two police officers outside the walled Old City before they opened fire and killed him. Police confi
The brilliant late journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal is considered a great chapter in the history of the media and political conflict in Egypt and the region. Heikal was both a witness and a partaker during the reigns of King Farouk of Egypt, President Gamal Abdel Nasser, President Anwar Sadat, Pr
In his speculation regarding the transmutation of capitalism, Marx envisaged a stage in which the system leads to total divorce between production and profit. In other words, you make a profit without producing anything. In a sense, that has already happened. Today, for example, the market value of
London- Previously confidential documents, dating back to 1986-1988 closing-in on the end of the Iraqi-Iranian war, recently revealed by the British government uncover intelligence activities, assassinations, and the hijack of the Kuwaiti plane. On British-Syrian affairs, the documents unveiled that
Saudi Arabia is halting a $3 billion arms deal with the Lebanese army to buy French arms, its state news agency said on Friday, over the country’s latest diplomatic position. The kingdom has also cancelled the remainder of $1 billion in aid it had earmarked for Lebanon’s internal security service, t
The British Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) severely criticised two independent Jewish boys’ schools situated in north London for not preparing pupils “for the reality of life in modern British society” and the fact that they are “unable to show mutua
