http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_default.xml Updated every 5 minute of every day - FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:35:18 Asia/Riyadh(AST) Copyright: 2010, Alarabiya News Channel. http://www.alarabiya.net/rss/en_default.xml http://www.alarabiya.net/files/gfx/img/alarabiya.gif http://www.alarabiya.net U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the international community was "moving along fairly quickly" toward imposing fresh sanctions on Iran, as the Islamic Republic further expanded its nuclear program. Obama also said Iran's refusal to accept a U.N.-brokered nuclear fuelhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/09/99821.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTRussia's top general said on Tuesday that U.S. missile defense plans were directed against his country, and differences over the issue were holding up an arms treaty with Washington, Russian news agencies reported. "The development and deployment of missile defenses is aimed againsthttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/09/99907.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTThe UAE Court of Misdemeanors on Sunday found a Syrian man accused of cursing one of his former employees on Facebook guilty and sentenced him to a fine of AED3,000. The case, a first-of-its-kind trial involving Facebook, saw the 26-year-old defendant, known simply as A.A., admitting to havinghttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/09/99854.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTA British court jailed the country's most senior Asian police officer for four years on Monday for attacking a man and trying to frame him in a petty row over money. Ali Dizaei, 47, was convicted of misconduct in public office and perverting the course of justice following ahttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/09/99838.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTA German convert to Islam who has admitted involvement in a thwarted plot to blow up U.S. targets in Germany has now "renounced terror", his lawyer said Tuesday, asking for a lighter sentence. In closing arguments at the trial of four Islamists charged with belonging to an extremisthttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/09/99887.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTItaly said dozens of members of Iran's religious Basij militia had tried to attack its embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, but Iranian media described the incident as a protest by students and denied there was any violence. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told a Senate hearing:http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/09/99897.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTFormer British prime minister Tony Blair has lashed out at the hunt for a "scandal" and a "conspiracy" over his controversial decision to back the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Speaking 10 days after he gave evidence at Britain's latest inquiry intohttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/09/99822.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTSudan and Chad agreed on Tuesday to end their proxy wars and engage in direct talks and joint development projects to rebuild their war-affected border areas. Chadian President Idriss Deby made a surprise visit to Khartoum for talks with President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Monday after relationshttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/09/99865.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTU.S. Marines on Tuesday stepped up preparations for a major assault on a key Taliban bastion in southern Afghanistan hailed by officers as the biggest offensive of the eight-year war. Thousands of Afghan, U.S. and NATO forces are expected to launch Operation Mushtarak (Together) in a bid tohttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/09/99881.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTAt least 10 polling stations are to open in Jordan for Iraqi expatriates to take part in their country's March 7 election, as part of worldwide out-of-country voting, Iraq's ambassador said on Tuesday. "We have agreed with Jordan to open from 10 to 15 voting centershttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/09/99862.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTBritish legal aid authorities have seized the London home of jailed radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza to recover costs spent on defending him, they said Tuesday. The Egyptian-born former imam, who has one eye and a hook for one hand, was jailed for seven years in 2007 for incitinghttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/09/99866.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTPalestinian leaders have not set specific terms on which they would accept a U.S. offer to mediate indirect peace talks with Israel, and expect clarification on such talks in a week, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday. The United States has proposed circumventing a dispute preventinghttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/09/99834.htmlAl ArabiyaMon, 08 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTPrime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday he has received assurances that judges will resolve a simmering row over who can stand in Iraq's general election before official campaigning starts on Feb. 12. Around 100 lawmakers had gathered earlier at parliament for anhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/08/99708.htmlAl ArabiyaSun, 07 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTZina Nabil, a pretty 28-year-old Sunni Arab, thought she had found her man. But like many other Iraqi women, she was forced to abandon her marriage plans three years ago because of sectarian hostilities. "I fell in love with a very nice, well-educated man. But my parents rejected him whenhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/08/99719.htmlAl ArabiyaSun, 07 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTThe International Criminal Court dismissed charges against a Sudanese rebel leader on Monday, ruling against allegations he helped orchestrate the killing of 12 African Union peacekeepers in Darfur in 2007. The war crimes court threw out the charges against Bahar Idriss Abu Garda after ahttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/08/99800.htmlAl ArabiyaSun, 07 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTMichael Jackson's doctor was charged with involuntary manslaughter on Monday ahead of a long-awaited court hearing where he is expected to deny causing the pop icon's death. A statement from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office -- which had alreadyhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/08/99802.htmlAl ArabiyaSun, 07 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTProsecutors in Turkey are seeking life in jail for the father and grandfather of a girl who was buried alive for befriending boys, local judicial sources said Monday. The pair were arrested after the body of 16-year-old Medine Memi was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a holehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/08/99761.htmlAl ArabiyaSun, 07 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTEgyptian security forces detained senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday, sources close to the group said, calling it a crackdown on Egypt's biggest opposition group before elections this year. The Brotherhood, though banned, won a fifth of the seats parliament in 2005 whenhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/08/99731.htmlAl ArabiyaSun, 07 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTSaudi Arabia's human rights commission has hired a lawyer to help a 12-year-old girl divorce her 80-year-old husband, the lawyer said, a move activists hope will lead to a ban on child marriages. Saudi Arabia has no minimum legal age for marriage. Fathers are granted guardianship over theirhttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/08/99766.htmlAl ArabiyaSun, 07 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMTPalestinians are weighing indirect peace talks with Israel to be mediated by the United States, Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki said on Monday, adding that they should focus on border issues. Echoing comments by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over the weekend, Malki also said he needed morehttp://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/02/08/99750.htmlAl ArabiyaSun, 07 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMT