http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_default.xml Updated every 5 minute of every day - FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:40:07 Asia/Riyadh(AST) Copyright: 2009, Alarabiya News Channel. http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_default.xml http://www.alarabiya.net/files/gfx/img/alarabiya.gif http://www.alarabiya.net North Korea fired five ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defense ministry said, in an apparent act of defiance towards the United States that further stoked regional tensions already high due to its nuclear test in May. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the missileshttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/04/77760.htmlFri, 03 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTAn Israeli submarine sailed the Suez Canal to the Red Sea as part of a naval drill last month, defense sources said on Friday, as an Israeli minister warned against the expanding population of Arab Israelis that do not "love" Israel. A defense source said the Israeli navy held anhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/03/77695.htmlThu, 02 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTIran said on Friday that some local British embassy staff arrested for allegedly playing a role in post-election violence will be put on trial as the European Union said it was seeking ways to object to Iran's crackdown on opposition. The head of Iran's powerful Guardianshttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/03/77691.htmlThu, 02 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTAlgerian music star Cheb Mami was sentenced Friday to five years in jail for drugging and trying to make his ex-girlfriend undergo a forced abortion, despite pleading for forgiveness at his trial near Paris. Known as the "Prince of Rai," the 42-year-old singer this weekhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/03/77715.htmlThu, 02 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe incoming head of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog said on Friday he did not see any written evidence that Iran was trying to gain the ability to develop nuclear weapons. "I don't see any evidence in IAEA official documents about this," Yukiya Amano told Reuters, whenhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/03/77720.htmlThu, 02 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTSyrian President Bashar al-Assad has issued an informal invitation to American President Barack Obama to visit Damascus for talks, in a sign that relations between the two countries may gradually be thawing. "We would like to welcome him to Syria, definitely," Assad told Britain'shttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/03/77692.htmlThu, 02 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTMasked vandals trashed a Paris bookstore run by pro-Palestinian activists on Friday, in an attack blamed by the owners on Jewish extremists. A bystander told AFP he saw five men wearing hoods and tracksuits run into the store, armed with sticks and bottles of oil early Fridayhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/03/77732.htmlThu, 02 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTHearing a female voice on the radio may be nothing new the world over but it is something of a novelty in the rugged mountainous terrain of Pakistan's northwest, where women are bringing about modernization via the airwaves. For most people in the region – the Federally Administeredhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/03/77688.htmlThu, 02 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe raw sewage dumped straight into the Mediterranean has failed to cure Gazans' itch for the beach and many in the Palestinian enclave brave nasty rashes for a dip in the polluted sea. The pollution is largely blamed on Israel's crippling two-year embargo of thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/03/77676.htmlThu, 02 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTU.S. missiles pounded a Pakistani Taliban commander's hideout in the lawless tribal area of South Waziristan on Friday while U.S. Marines pushed deeper into Taliban strongholds. The United States has adopted a new strategy to defeat Islamist extremists, putting Pakistan at the heart of thehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/03/77686.htmlThu, 02 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTMichael Jackson’s funeral will be held next Tuesday at the Los Angeles Staples Center is to be the biggest funeral in history, and the pop icon family will reportedly have a traditional Muslim burial for him, media reports saidhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/02/77599.htmlWed, 01 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTIsrael sought to defend itself Thursday against the latest accusations by a major international organization that it committed war crimes against people in Gaza, claiming that the Islamist group Hamas manipulated the group responsible for the most recenthttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/02/77606.htmlWed, 01 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTU.S. Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Thursday to meet with Iraqi leaders and discuss the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces by the end of 2011, a day after Iraq’s defense minister said withdrawn U.S. forces could be asked to return to the war-tornhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/02/77635.htmlWed, 01 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTJapanese Diplomat Yukiya Amano wins on Thursday election to become the International Atomic Energy Agency's next general-director when Egyptian Mohamed ElBaradei ends his term in November. Amano won the required 2/3 majority of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) governing boardhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/02/77633.htmlWed, 01 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTThousands of U.S. Marines deployed in Afghanistan's Taliban heartlands Thursday in an air and ground assault that marked a high-risk test of President Barack Obama's new war plan. Dozens of aircraft ferried out nearly 4,200 U.S. forces from various bases before dawn,http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/02/77579.htmlWed, 01 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe New Delhi High Court made the prospect of freedom and understanding for gays and lesbians in India a closer reality on Thursday as it decriminalized gay sex between consentinghttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/02/77588.htmlWed, 01 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTAn Egyptian Islamist lawyer has filed a complaint with the prosecutor general calling for banning Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from entering the country or his arrest, in advance of a meeting he is expected to attend in Egypt later thishttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/02/77608.htmlWed, 01 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTA day after American troops pulled out of Iraq following their seven-year invasion, Iraq’s defense minister said in an interview to air Friday that it was “not unlikely” that American troops could return to at Baghdad’shttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/02/77624.htmlWed, 01 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTIndependence day fireworks in Goma sent terrified Congolese sprinting for cover on Tuesday in fear that war had broken out again in their eastern city. Officials had organized the display to highlight efforts to end more than a decade of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and to show ahttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/02/77570.htmlWed, 01 Jul 2009 21:00:00 GMTThe United States Department of Justice delayed the release Wednesday of a CIA report detailing the secret detention prisons opened during the former administration and which sparked worldwide controversy after several accusations of torture and abuse were alleged. "It's myhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/01/77542.htmlTue, 30 Jun 2009 21:00:00 GMT