Author: Associated Press ID: 1552501380456617400 Wed, 2019-03-13 15:40 DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates says seven Emiratis and two Egyptians held by Iran since January after being detained in the Gulf have been freed. The Emirati Foreign Ministry said in a … read more
Author: Reuters ID: 1552499893306442700 Wed, 2019-03-13 17:47 AMMAN: The Syrian army, aided by Russian warplanes, attacked rebel-held towns in northwestern Syria on Wednesday in the most extensive bombardment in weeks against the last remaining rebel bastion in the country, rebels, … read more
Wed, 2019-03-13 18:21 WASHINGTON: A US State Department report has dropped the words “occupation” or “occupied” before a section on the Palestinian territories of West Bank and Gaza. The annual global human rights report also describes the Golan Heights as “Israeli-controlled” rather … read more
Author: Tue, 2019-03-12 23:20 WIESBADEN: An Iraqi man confessed in a German court Tuesday to the murder of a teenage girl which last year inflamed anti-immigrant tensions. He denied raping her. “My vision went black and then it happened,” Ali Bashar, … read more
Author: AFP ID: 1552419376568495200 Tue, 2019-03-12 16:13 TEHRAN: Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to an extra 10 years in jail on top of the five-year term she is already serving, her husband said Tuesday. Sotoudeh is … read more