Middle East Headlines

Former Israeli TV anchor Gadi Sukenik's critique was clear: Anyone casting a ballot for Likud belongs in the baboon category. Op-ed....

Google engineer develops algorithm to identify lost faces in WWII photos as part of Numbers to Names projectGoogle engineer develops algorithm to identify lost faces in WWII photos as part of Numbers to Names project...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) Deutsche Lufthansa's Swiss business said on Tuesday it would cut about 2% of its flights scheduled between August and October because of labour shortages, strikes and rising COVID-19 infections....

KYIV (Reuters) Ukraine's security service said on Tuesday it arrested a former Soviet KGB agent who helped direct Russian missile strikes that killed over 50 soldiers at a military facility in the country's west in March....

By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) The sixth day of congressional hearings into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol featured Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to then-President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows....

By Ahmed Elumami and Angus McDowall TRIPOLI (Reuters) The U.S. ambassador to Libya said on Tuesday that it could be possible to hold national elections without resolving a standoff between two rival governments and that a mechanism to oversee spending cou...

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) A nearly $17 billion JP Morgan fund is expected to reset its options positions on Thursday, potentially adding to equity volatility at the end of a dismal first half for stocks....

A civil rights attorney says the Supreme Court decision on abortion has 'nothing' to do with personal freedom....

Asuncin, SANA-President of Paraguay Mario Abdo Bentez received on Tuesday credentials of Mr. Sami Salamah as non-resident Ambassador of Syria to Paraguay. During the meeting, Ambassador Salamah conveyed President Bashar al-Assad's greetings to Preside...

By Yousuf Awadh Al-Azmi "We ask all to realize the magnitude of the national responsibility that lies on your shoulders in the positive participation in the election process and be keen on selecting the strong and honest." HH the Crown Prince Shei...

A civil rights attorney says the Supreme Court decision on abortion has 'nothing' to do with personal freedom....

WASHINGTON, June 28 (KUNA) -- The United States on Tuesday vowed to do its best to downgrade costs of the Russian oil sales to lowest level possible. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen asaid in a statement that G7 leaders' pursuit of a limit on the pr...

TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) "NATO is the biggest threat to global peace since it is pushing the European Union toward confrontation with Russia and China," according to a French member of the European Parliament....

Moscow, SANA- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergey Vershinin, discussed with Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations Martin Griffiths ways to provide humanitarian assistance to Syria witho...

The former cabinet minister called Israel a 'temporary' phenomenon that would last another 25-30 years....

Gloat, which manages employee careers within massive organizations, has raised $182 million in total...

HOUSTON (Reuters) Shell PLC on Tuesday said it will update its health care options in the U.S. to ensure employees continue to have access to uninterrupted medical services....

Law professor and former adviser to President Trump had his phone snatched by a mask-wearing official prior to receiving a search warrant....

The technology also allows the passenger to tip the driver, rate the level of service of the ride and receive a digital receipt via text....

More than one thousand female soldiers have demanded the IDF provide trousers better suited to the female anatomy....

More than one thousand female soldiers have demanded the IDF provide trousers better suited to the female anatomy....

Abortion up to six weeks of pregnancy can now resume in Texas at some clinics, US legal groups say....

The former NYC mayor said the man was 'lucky' he didn't fall and break his skull but vowed no one would stop him....

The former cabinet minister called Israel a 'temporary' phenomenon that would last another 25-30 years....

Three-time world champion Piquet used a racist remark about Hamilton when describing events of last year's British GP....

BEIJING, June 28 (SANA) A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Tuesday urged the United States to strictly abide by the One-China principle and the three China-U.S. joint communiques, and cease any form of official exchanges with Taiwan. Spokesperson ...

TEHRAN, Jun. 28 (MNA) Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Tuesday that Zionist regime's presence in the region will bring nothing but sedition and insecurity....

The former NYC mayor said the man was 'lucky' he didn't fall and break his skull but vowed no one would stop him....

MASHHAD, Jun. 28 (MNA) Sheer Yakh or Kulfi is a traditional ice cream (special of Afghanistan) which is very popular among immigrants and people of Mashhad, Khorasan Razavi province these days....

BRUSSELS, June 28 (KUNA) -- The European Union (EU) has not placed a bloc-wide arms embargo on Turkey and it depends on individual member states to decide to issue licences for arms export to Ankara or not , an EU spokesperson said on Tuesday. "Relate...

Israel has offered to aid Jordan with the aftermath of the deadly incident, which was sparked by toxic chlorine gas; over 250 woundedIsrael has offered to aid Jordan with the aftermath of the deadly incident, which was sparked by toxic chlorine gas; over ...

Schenck, despite his Nazi past, is celebrated in some aviation circles for his role in pioneering experimental techniques and aircraft....

'They are looting toilet bowls and women's underwear - they don't have the determination to fight,' says a Ukrainian soldier....

By Majd Othman KUWAIT: A recent study indicated that the average citizen in Kuwait needs around 16 years to repay the amount of financing granted to buy a house in Kuwait in monthly installments to the government, according to Marmore Mena Intelligence, p...

WARSAW (Reuters) A top Polish appeals court ruled on Tuesday that so-called "LGBT-free zones" must be scrapped in four municipalities, a verdict welcomed by activists as a victory for human rights and democracy....

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) The Biden administration is watching closely for states violating women's rights after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling that made abortion a constitutional right and plans to take aggressive le...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas: US police Tuesday were investigating the grim discovery of about 50 bodies in and around a trailer truck abandoned in sweltering heat near the Texas city of San Antonio, with victims identified as from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. T...

KYIV: A Russian missile strike on a crowded mall in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk killed at least 16 people, the head of emergency services said early Tuesday, sparking international outrage. "The Russian strike today on the shopping centre...

'They are looting toilet bowls and women's underwear - they don't have the determination to fight,' says a Ukrainian soldier....

After Hamas released a video purportedly showing captive Arab Israeli Hisham al-Sayed lying in a hospital bed while connected to an oxygen machine, al-Sayed's father said he was happy to have seen his son. He also said Hisham looked "fine" in ...

Bulgaria will expel 70 Russian diplomatic staff, the EU country's prime minister announced on Tuesday, the biggest number ordered out in one-go from the...

MOSCOW, June 28 (KUNA) -- Russia warned on Tuesday that supplying Ukraine with arms and ammunition would extend the war in the country. Western states' insistence on supplying Ukraine with the arms is harmful and would prolong the war, the Russian New...

BRANDENBURG AN DER HAVEL, Germany: A German court on Tuesday handed a five-year jail sentence to a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person so far to go on trial for complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust. Josef Schuetz ...