Half of the current MPs expected to lose
Kuwaitis vote to elect second parliament in 2 yrs
KUWAIT CITY (Agencies)
Kuwaitis started casting votes on Saturday to elect a new parliament in this oil-rich Gulf state which has been rocked by political turmoil that resulted in dissolving two parliaments in as many years. Twenty-seven women are among 275 candidates running for the 50-seat legislative body, after a campaign focusing on ways...More
Saudi agrees cooperation on nuclear energy, oil security
Bush arrives in Saudi for talks on oil and Iran
U.S. President George W. Bush held talks with Saudi King Abdullah on Friday to seek help in taming record oil prices and shore up Arab support for his efforts to contain Iran's growing influence. On his second visit to Saudi Arabia this year, Bush was renewing his appeal for more oil from OPEC amid rising pressure at home to act as...More
Film reveals horror of Beirut massacres, life as a soldier
Israel suffers from collective amnesia: filmmaker
Repressed memories, the horrors of war and Israel's dubious role in a notorious Beirut refugee camp massacre are the themes of the Cannes film festival's first ever fully-animated documentary called "Waltz With Bashir". The film is a gripping story about ex-soldiers who have repressed horrific memories of their time in the...More
Arab League brokers talks on agreed upon six-point plan
Lebanon's leaders meet in Qatar to end crisis
Lebanon's squabbling political leaders were to meet in Qatar on Friday for talks brokered by the Arab League aimed at ending a long-running feud that drove the...More
Says Muslims will not give up Palestine
Bin Laden back on stage for Israel anniversary
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in an audio tape on Friday, vowed to continue the fight against Israel and its allies, saying Muslims will not give up...More
Says portrayal of sexuality fuels prostitution, child abuse
Pope accuses the media of harming society
Pope Benedict on Friday accused the media and entertainment industries of harming society with trivial portrayals of sexuality that he said were partly to...More
Says migrants trying to cross into Europe being murdered
Europe kills Africans by sinking boats: Gaddafi
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has accused European states of killing hundreds of African migrants by deliberately sinking their boats to stop them reaching...More
Says Hezbollah has lost the battle in the media
Al Arabiya's Lebanon coverage unrivaled: study
The military takeover of Hezbollah is still making headlines in the Arab world as competition grows fiercer between Arab channels. The major channels...More
Hamas sends delegation to Cairo over truce
The Palestinian Hamas movement said on Friday it will send a delegation to Egypt to discuss a proposed truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip, as a rocket fired from Gaza damaged a synagogue and another...More
French boys record rape of 10-year-old girl
Two boys have been charged in France for the rape of a 10-year-old girl that they recorded on video using a mobile phone and showed to friends at their Paris area school, a judicial source said...More
Egypt fraudster jailed for a millennium
An Egyptian man was sentenced to 1,000 years behind bars on Thursday after scamming hundreds of people out of 280 million pounds (around 52 million dollars), a court official said. The Giza...More
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