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.
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.
President Ahmadinejad boasted Iran was now a nuclear nation as he marked the 1979 Islamic revolution, prompting the West to warn his regime would soon be slapped with new sanctions.
TEHRAN - Iran began work on Tuesday to produce higher-grade nuclear fuel, an official said, a move that may increase pressure for new U.N. sanctions on the major oil producer.