by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 27, 2010 | Middle East
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has left Heidelberg hospital in Germany, his information minister said on Saturday, three weeks after the 81-year-old leader underwent surgery on his gall bladder. “President Mubarak has departed the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 27, 2010 | Middle East
SIRTE, Libya, (Reuters) – Arab states should prepare for the possibility that the Palestinian-Israeli peace process may be a total failure and come up with alternatives, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said on Saturday. The troubled peace process...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 27, 2010 | Middle East
London, Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat – Following the victory of the Iraqiya bloc in the recent Iraqi parliamentary elections, Iyad Allawi told Asharq Al-Awsat on the phone from Baghdad, “I congratulate the Iraqi people, and consider this victory a victory for all...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 26, 2010 | Middle East
Washington/London, Asharq Al-Awsat – US officials have stated that the Obama administration withdrew a series of tough measures from a draft sanction against Iran that was being discussed until recently. One of the measures removed from the original draft...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 26, 2010 | Middle East
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Gunmen opened fire on a group of engineers inspecting a high school in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province Friday, killing one of them, local officials said. Three other people were wounded in the attack in the provincial...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 26, 2010 | Middle East
Algiers, Asharq Al-Awsat – Algerian security forces are investigating the disappearance of an Israeli national in the Sahara desert and there are concerns that Al Qaeda in the Islamist Maghreb, the Al Qaeda wing of North Africa, kidnapped him. Informed sources...
