Five Syrians have become the first of 12,000 refugees to arrive in Australia under a one-off plan to resettle people fleeing the country's conflict, the media reported on Tuesday.
Five Syrians have become the first of 12,000 refugees to arrive in Australia under a one-off plan to resettle people fleeing the country's conflict, the media reported on Tuesday.
Assad said the only way to determine what the Syrians want will be through the ballot boxes, not through foreign pressures.
Challenges need to be addressed to win more Gulf investment.
"The decline in oil prices has made things difficult and corporates have started getting more conservative in the spending plans," said the chief executive officer at Mashreq Capital DIFC.
Obama described the attacks in France as "a terrible and sickening setback".
Hadi Heidari was convicted two years ago for his cartoons and was sentenced to one year in jail.
"The security of Yemen is part and parcel of the Arab national security, and deserves our sacrifice."
Putin pledged to ramp up Moscow's bombing campaign in Syria as Russia confirmed a bomb brought down a Russian passenger jet over Egypt.
French investigators said the passport was either taken or fabricated based on a real identity.
Like other Gulf oil-exporting states, Bahrain has for many years subsidised goods and services such as food, fuel, electricity and water.