Author: Mon, 2019-03-25 23:38 GAZA CITY: A Palestinian journalist was acquitted on appeal over an investigative report about corruption in the Gaza Strip Monday, according to Amnesty International and a campaign group. In a 2016 report for Al-Araby TV, Hajar Harb … read more
Author: AFP ID: 1553539051008362400 Mon, 2019-03-25 16:58 QAMISHLI: The Kurdish administration in northeast Syria said Monday it handed over three Russian orphans to a delegation from Moscow who will transfer them back home. Kurdish foreign affairs official Abdel Karim Omar … read more
Author: Associated Press ID: 1553535602988017400 Mon, 2019-03-25 14:45 ANKARA: Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia — a Byzantine-era cathedral that now serves as a museum — could be reconverted into a mosque, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. Erdogan made the comments … read more
Author: Jim Mannion with Mike Smith in Jerusalem | AFP ID: 1553451541410160500 Sun, 2019-03-24 16:54 WASHINGTON: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington Sunday, looking for an electoral boost from Donald Trump amid expectations the US president will formally … read more
Sun, 2019-03-24 19:36 WASHINGTON: The United States clinched a strategic port deal with Oman on Sunday which US officials say will allow the US military better access to the Gulf region and reduce the need to send ships through the Strait of Hormuz, … read more