The Israeli authorities have charged Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister, with corruption.
The indictments include illegal acceptance of funds from an American supporter and double-billing for foreign trips, the attorney-general’s office said on Sunday.
“The attorney-general … has decided to press charges against former prime minister Ehud Olmert,” a statement from the office of Menahem [...]
By Kristoffer Larsson
Now Israelis are boycotting IKEA…
Swedish photojournalist Donald Boström has really infuriated the Israelis and its supporters. On August 17, Sweden’s most widely circulated newspaper, Aftonbaldet, carried an article by Boström entitled “Our sons plundered for their organs.”
The usual suspects immediately cried “anti-Semitism,” claiming that the old blood libel accusation has been brought to [...]
The United Arab Emirates has seized a cargo of North Korean weapons being shipped to Iran, which would have violated a UN embargo on arms exports from the communist state, Western diplomats say.
The UAE reported the incident, which occurred two weeks ago, to the Security Council sanctions committee on North Korea, diplomats said on Friday.
The [...]
Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, has increased his lead over his closest rival in the race to be the next Afghan president.
With less than half the ballots counted, Karzai now holds 46 per cent of votes, or 940,558 votes, Afghanistan’s independent election commission said on Saturday.
The commission said that Abdullah Abdullah, Karzai’s main election challenger and a [...]
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Saudi Arabia’s assistant interior minister has survived an assassination attempt in the Red Sea port of Jeddah, the country’s state news agency reports.
Prince Muhammed bin Nayef was meeting with well-wishers for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan on Thursday evening when a man blew himself up with [...]
Iran’s supreme leader has said he does not believe opposition leaders blamed for the country’s post-election unrest were knowing agents of foreign powers.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comments contradict accusations which have frequently been made by hardliners.
A number of senior opposition figures are currently on trial in Tehran accused of conspiring with foreign powers to organise unrest.
But [...]
(CNN) — Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died Wednesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a lengthy battle with brain cancer. He was 77.
Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, known as the “Lion of the Senate,” died Wednesday at 77.
“We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family [...]
A car bomb explosion in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar has left about 40 people dead.
Tuesday’s blast came as official preliminary results for last week’s presidential elections were released, giving incumbent Hamid Karzai a slight lead over nearest rival Abdullah Abdullah.
Police said the blast on Tuesday was a suicide attack near a wedding [...]
At least four policemen have been killed and one injured in a suicide bombing Russia’s mainly Muslim republic of Chechnya, according to local media.
The RIA Novosti news agency said the attack occured in the Shali district of Chechnya, which lies in Russia’s Caucasus region, on Tuesday, citing a local police source.
“A suicide bomber approached five [...]
Yahoo, the US internet company, says it has signed a deal to buy Maktoob, the largest web portal in the Middle East.
The purchase will expand Yahoo’s reach to millions of consumers across the Arab world.
The acquisition on Tuesday marks the first major buy by a US portal company in the Arab region.
The acquisition, the terms of which were [...]