DUBAI - Iraq plans to double capacity at Baghdad International Airport to 15 million passengers per year, the head of the country’s civil aviation authority said on Tuesday.
DUBAI - Iraq plans to double capacity at Baghdad International Airport to 15 million passengers per year, the head of the country’s civil aviation authority said on Tuesday.
Iran and China agreed during talks in Beijing that sanctions “have lost their effectiveness”, chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said after meeting senior Chinese officials.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk will travel to Egypt next week for talks with a key Arab ally that has long wanted a free trade agreement with the United States.
MUSCAT - Oman, which has one of the highest traffic mortality rates in the world, launched the annual ‘GCC Traffic Week’ together with the other five member states of the bloc.
ABU DHABI -- Gen. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, received today visiting U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
DUBA I- Dubai Public Prosecution has issued international arrest warrants for 16 more suspects wanted for the premeditated killing of Mahmoud Al-mabhouh, a top Hamas leader, in a hotel in Dubai last January, taking the total number of people on its wanted list to 27.
Dubai Public Prosecution has issued the international arrest warrant against suspected murderers of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh on charges of premeditated murder in Dubai.
DOHA - US officials sought to shore up support Sunday for a tougher stand against Iran’s nuclear program by saying Tehran had left the world little choice and expressing renewed confidence that holdout China would come around to harsher U.N. penalties.
GAZA - Hamas police have arrested a British journalist in the Gaza Strip, an official in the ruling Palestinian Islamist movement said on Sunday, accusing him of unspecified security offences.
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s supreme leader has praised the massive turnout at the government-backed rally marking the 1979 Islamic Revolution and warned the West to stop putting obstacles in his country’s path.