RIYADH - A Saudi appeals court upheld a verdict against an airline sales clerk sentenced to five years in prison and 1,000 lashes for boasting on a television programme about his sexual exploits, media reports said on Tuesday.
AMMAN - At least 10 polling stations are to open in Jordan for Iraqi expatriates to take part in their country’s March 7 election, as part of worldwide out-of-country voting, Iraq’s ambassador said on Tuesday.
Almost all the candidates who contested their ban from Iraq’s upcoming parliamentary election did not submit their cases properly and lost the chance to appeal.
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party has gained popularity in the year since his election, according to polls, largely thanks to a period of calm and quick recovery from global economic crisis.
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for immediate and crippling sanctions against Iran on Tuesday, on the day it began making higher-grade nuclear fuel.
KHARTOUM - Sudan and Chad agreed on Tuesday to end their proxy wars and engage in direct talks and joint development projects to rebuild their war-affected border areas.
SANAA - The Yemeni government on Tuesday dismissed Al-Qaeda threats and said it will strike the militants “around the clock,” after the group’s local branch called for attacks on US interests worldwide.
ADDIS ABABA - One of the black boxes from an Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed on January 25 off Lebanon’s coast has been sent to France for analysis, a spokeswoman for the airline said on Tuesday.
TOKYO - Palestinian leaders have not set specific terms on which they would accept a U.S. offer to mediate indirect peace talks with Israel, and expect clarification on such talks in a week, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday.
