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BEIRUT - Hezbollah urged all Lebanese on Thursday to boycott a UN-backed inquiry into the 2005 killing of statesman Rafik al-Hariri and accused investigators of sending information to Israel.
JERUSALEM — Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak left on Monday for a working visit to the United States where he will hold a series of meetings with top US officials, a spokeswoman said.
DUBAI - Pirate attacks have fallen in the Arabian Sea with the advent of the South West Monsoons, but are expected to pick up in August when the rains subside, according to the International Maritime Bureau Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB). The buccaneers, meanwhile, are turning their attention to other areas like the Gulf of Aden and the southern Red Sea.
TEHRAN - Iran complained on Monday that its planes had been denied fuel in Germany, Britain and the United Arab Emirates, and Washington said commercial firms were making the “right choices” by cutting business ties with Tehran.
Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadl Allah, one of Shia Islam's highest religious authorities, died on Sunday. He was 74.
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu praised as a “positive step” a new round of U.N. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme and called for additional measures against Tehran’s energy sector.
ABU DHABI — A rescue team has been put on alert in the emirate of Fujairah as a precaution against tropical cyclone ‘Phet’, as weathermen predicted that it may partially touch the eastern coastline.
ABU DHABI — The President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has called for a collective and concerted international response to the attack by Israeli troops on the high seas against a peaceful flotilla sailing for the Gaza coast with aid and supplies.
DAMASCUS - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has stated explicitly that the Palestinian Islamist group will end its armed struggle against Israel if the Jewish state withdraws from Palestinian land it occupied in the 1967 Middle East War.