Fertility rate among Jewish women in Israel increases while rate in Muslim sector drops, according to demographics report BY Yaron Druckman According to a demographics report released by the Central […]
BAGHDAD — Iraq has begun setting free hundreds of inmates, officials said Monday, offering a concession to Sunni protesters demonstrating against the country’s Shiite-led government. Protesters from Iraq’s Sunni minority […]
RIYADH: GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN ARABNEWS Tuesday 15 January 2013 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah appointed Prince Faisal bin Salman as governor of Madinah yesterday. Prince Faisal, who […]
Ynetnews, Israel: Political cartoonists across the Arab world have never spared criticism for Israel, but the armed conflict in the Gaza Strip this past November has spurred them to step […]
AMMAN — The Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project is feasible, according to a World Bank study, but it will have manageable social and environmental effects. The World Bank has […]
By Jamal Khashoggi Sunday, 13 January 2013 Saudi Arabia feels safe, or at least it should, when its wings are all right. “Saudi security” is based on an old strategy that withstood the change of times, leaders and the world around it; a strategy that always needs a strong Pakistan […]
RIYADH – Saudi diplomatic missions abroad issued a total of 10.77 million visas last year. “This is a record figure compared to previous years, and the increase was 13.6 percent over 2011 and 79.7 percent over 2005,” said Assistant Foreign Minister Prince Khaled Bin Saud Bin Khaled. Speaking to the […]
Saudi Gazette: TEL AVIV, Israel – An apocalyptic tone has crept into Israel’s hitherto muted election season, with opposition leaders and others sounding increasingly desperate warnings that a few more […]
earlier report: Israel orders activist to leave Bab Al-Shams village Mohammed Mar’i Saudi Gazette RAMALLAH – Israel has ordered Palestinian activists and their foreign supporters to leave the Bab Al-Shams […]
January 12, 2013 Basel’s museum of antiquities is currently presenting the latest results of archeological research at the ancient site of Petra in Jordan. Some 150 relics are on view, […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 12 January 2013 Muslims all over the world are happy over the selection of Madinah, which is also known as the city of Prophet Muhammad (peace […]
Disengage, avoid, and withhold support from whatever abuses, degrades and humiliates humanity.” (Alice Walker, b:1944.). “[former Danish PM and Secretary General of NATO] Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Du har blod på […]
ARAB NEWS Friday 11 January 2013 JEDDAH: Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) launched an appeal to member states and to their various nongovernmental organizations active […]
Agencies ARABNEWS Friday 11 January 2013 BEIRUT: The worst storms in a decade left swathes of Jordan and Israel under a blanket of snow and parts of Lebanon blacked out […]
ARAB NEWS Thursday 10 January 2013 BEIRUT/DAMASCUS/CAIRO: A core Syrian opposition group is proposing that the leading National Coalition set up a transitional government in areas outside regime control, according to a document obtained by AFP. The Syrian National Council called on the Cairo-based umbrella group the Syrian National Coalition […]
Rebels free 48 Iranians seized in August, in exchange for more than 2,000 prisoners held by Syrian government. Forty-eight Iranians held hostage by Syrian rebels for five months have arrived in a Damascus hotel on Wednesday after being freed in a prisoner swap for more than 2,000 regime prisoners. The […]
ARAB NEWS Wednesday 9 January 2013 GENEVA: The World Food Program said on Tuesday it is unable to help an estimated 1 million Syrians who are going hungry, blaming a lack of security in the war-stricken country. This month, the agency aims to help 1.5 million of the 2.5 million […]
AMMAN — Violent riots erupted at the Zaatari Refugee Camp on Tuesday as heavy rain submerged hundreds of tents. According to a security source, Syrian refugees clashed with security forces […]
by David Ignatius, The Daily Star, Lebanon Story Summary To help oust President Bashar Assad, a Syrian opposition group has drafted a plan for a transitional justice system that would impose harsh penalties against diehard members of his inner circle but provide amnesty for most of his Alawite supporters. To […]