The Daily Star (Lebanon)
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:41
The ministry says the blast happened Friday in the village of Daih. The same area was the scene of a bomb attack in March that killed three policemen.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 07:14
The UN's special rapporteur on the rights situation in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, and other experts voiced alarm at Tehran's alleged denial of medical care for blogger Mohammad Reza Pourshajari and religious cleric Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 07:13
The fate of the heavy-water plant, which has not yet been completed, is one of the central issues in negotiations between Iran and six major powers aimed at reaching a long-term deal on Tehran's nuclear programme by an agreed July 20 deadline.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 07:11
The first blast struck Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Sadr City in a commercial area, killing at least 11 people and wounding 21, police said. The second explosion hit a commercial street in Baghdad's southeastern al-Ameen district, killing at least five people and wounding 13, police said.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 07:10
The clashes centred around the border town of Albu Kamal, from which ISIL was expelled from earlier this year, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 07:03
Military Prosecutor Judge Saqr Saqr had issued some 200 arrest warrants for wanted suspects in Tripoli and other parts of the country as part of the security plan in Lebanon’s second largest city, which has been plagued by Syria-linked clashes.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 07:02
"Following the recent increase in violence towards security forces, and in order to address ongoing security concerns, (the army) positioned a company of border police in the Yitzhar yeshiva building," it said in a statement.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 07:00
Al-Zobaie says attackers in military uniform and driving military vehicles opened fire at their convoy, triggering a shootout with guards and soldiers protecting al-Mutlaq.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 06:59
Israel argues the Geneva Conventions forbidding colonization of occupied land shouldn't apply to the West Bank and Gaza because it is not universally accepted as a state in its own right.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 06:58
The statement said one suspect – identified as A.M. – is wanted in a series of abductions, including the kidnapping and robbing of a Syrian national. It said the other two suspects, N.M. and A.A., are wanted for shooting incidents.