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UAE court sentences Pakistani to three years in jail for spying

ABU DHABI: A top United Arab Emirates court on Wednesday awarded three-year jail term to a Pakistani driver at a foreign embassy in the...

Twin blasts strike Egyptian military headquarters in Sinai

CAIRO: Two bomb blasts went off simultaneously in Egyptian border town of Sinai on Wednesday, killing at least four persons, officials said. In the first...

Russia provides evidence of chemical weapons use by Syrian militants to UN

MOSCOW: Russia has provided evidence to the UN Security Council against foreign-backed militants in Syria as they used chemical weapons near Aleppo in March,...

Obama describes strike against Syria in US national interests

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has said that it is in the national security interests of the United States to respond to the Syrian...

Syria agrees to hand over its chemical weapons to international control: FM

DAMASCUS: The Syrian government has agreed to Russian proposal asking Damascus to hand over its chemical arsenal to international control in a bid to...

G20 leaders fail to reach consensus over Syria

ST. PETERSBURG: Leaders of the group of twenty (G20) failed to reach a consensus on military strikes in Syria at the end of the...

Egypt government decides to dissolve Muslim Brotherhood: report

CAIRO: The Egyptian government has decided to dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood as a registered non-governmental organisation (NGO), the state-run Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Friday. The...

Egypt’s interior minister Muhammed Ibrahim survives bomb attack

CAIRO: Egypt's interim Interior Minister Muhammed Ibrahim on Thursday survived a terror attack as his convoy was targeted while passing through a Cairo street,...

Russia needs convincing proof from UN experts about Syria chemical attack: Putin

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia needs convincing proof, not rumors, from UN experts that chemical weapons were used in...

Kerry calls military action against Syria in US interest; Obama wins support

WASHINGTON: The US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that military action against Syria is certainly in the national interest of the United...

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