PM-designate Hariri set to announce new govt in days

Lebanon's opposition agrees to join Hariri govt

BEIRUT (Agencies)

Lebanon's opposition has agreed to a proposed government line-up, Hezbollah said on Saturday, paving the way to the end of five months of tortuous negotiations following a June general election. Hezbollah, which heads an alliance of parties supported by Syria and Iran, said in a statement that its...More

Rival parties reach agreement over division of cabinet seats (File)

Rival parties reach agreement over division of cabinet seats (File)

Insists Chinese Muslims not discriminated against

Chinese PM reaches out to Muslims in Cairo

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao sought to reassure the world's Muslims about his country's goodwill towards them in Cairo on Saturday, at a time when Beijing is criticized for the treatment of its own Muslim minority. "The relationship between Chinese civilization and Islamic civilization goes back...More

The Chinese premier gave his speech at the Arab League

Police says over 100 arrested in latest protests

Son of Iran’s Shah urges civil disobedience

Iran's former crown prince backed a campaign of "civil disobedience and non-violence" Saturday to oust the government in Tehran and urged Western support, but warned against any armed intervention. "The end of the apartheid regime in South Africa, of military juntas in South America, of the former...More

Security forces clashed with opposition supporters during protests on Wednesday

UAE says raising production not on OPEC agenda

Yemen starts natural gas exports from new plant

The $4.5-billion project involves a 320-kilometre (200-mile) gas pipeline (File)

Yemen began exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its newly built LNG plant in Balhaf on the Gulf of Aden on Saturday, with the first shipment destined...More

Tells Palestinian leader to not give up

Israel president urges Mahmoud Abbas to stay on

Peres was giving a speech honoring slain premier Yitzhak Rabin who was killed in 1995 (File)

Israeli President Shimon Peres on Saturday used a speech honoring slain premier Yitzhak Rabin to urge Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to stay in power despite...More

US likely to veto UN body hearing of Goldstone report

UN chief to pass Gaza report to Security Council

US likely to use its veto power at the Security Council to bloc report critical of Israel

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said late Friday that he would soon transmit to the Security Council a controversial report alleging that Israel and the Palestinians...More

Health ministry officials first to receive inoculation

Saudi begins flu vaccination ahead of hajj

Pilgrims receive the H1N1flu vaccination (File)

Saudi Arabia began vaccinating its population against swine flu on Saturday, with priority going to government employees working on the annual hajj pilgrimage...More

"America made him what he is": Hamad

US army gunman's act "impossible": grandfather

Men and women share baked goods outside U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan's mosque (File)

The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it...More

Palestinian rivals cooperate for Gaza hajj trip

Hundreds of Gaza Palestinians set off for Mecca on Friday for the annual hajj pilgrimage, after bitter rivals Fatah and Hamas set aside their dispute to agree on a list of 4,500 participants from the...More

Saudi detains 100 rebels, 40 soldiers wounded

Israel keen on Abbas staying in office: reports

UN assembly calls for probes of Gaza war crimes

WHO urges close flu watch in farmers, animals

The World Health Organization on Friday called for close monitoring of farm workers and animals for influenza A viruses, following recent cases in a wider range of creatures than pigs. ...More

Sudan leader's due visit sparks Turkey-EU row

Gunman kills 13, wounds 31 in US army base

Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead: report

Saudi newspaper al-Watan website hacked

The website of the Saudi based newspaper al-Watan was hacked early Saturday by suspected supporters of a leading cleric who was recently sacked from the kingdom’s Council of Senior Clerics...More

Egypt Islamists appalled by Beyonce concert

Deadly tropical disease hits south Sudan

Saudi TV presenters covered from head to toe

Saudi to phase out water intensive crops

Saudi Arabia plans to phase out production of all water intensive crops that have depleted the desert kingdom's scarce water supplies, Saudi's water and electricity minister said on...More

Exxon-led group clinches Iraq's W.Qurna contract

Al Arabiya discusses future of media post crisis

Qatar aims to bring F1 technology to mainstream

Somali rebels' 11 commandments to aid groups

Don't promote democracy, fire all women, don't take Sundays off and remove all logos from your vehicles: these are only some of the 11 new rules Somalia's Shabaab rebels want to slap...More