Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category

Saudi lashed for having six wives

author Posted by: on date Feb 18th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Middle East

A Saudi member of the religious police is found guilty of having six wives - two more than allowed under Islamic law.

UK ‘outrage’ at passport killing

author Posted by: on date Feb 18th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Middle East

David Miliband says the use of fake UK passports by the alleged killers of a Hamas leader is an “outrage” as an inquiry begins.

Why Dubai?

author Posted by: on date Feb 18th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Middle East

Different scenarios behind Hamas leader’s killing

Arab press: ‘Mossad exposed’

author Posted by: on date Feb 18th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Middle East

Dubai police are praised by Middle East commentators for their investigations into the death of a senior Palestinian militant

Israel says no proof of Dubai hit

author Posted by: on date Feb 17th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Middle East

Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman says there is no proof it carried out the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai.

Football chairman denies UAE debt

author Posted by: on date Feb 17th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Middle East

Portsmouth’s non-executive chairman Sulaiman al-Fahim dismisses as “nonsense” reports that a warrant for his arrest has been issued in Dubai.

ICRC condemns Israeli occupation

author Posted by: on date Feb 17th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Middle East

Israel is making life close to impossible for many West Bank Palsetinians, says the international Red Cross.

Partners agree Yemen terror plan

author Posted by: on date Jan 28th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Middle East

Yemen and its foreign partners agree a plan to fight the threat of al-Qaeda at an international conference in London.

UK attorney general admits Iraq legal shift

author Posted by: on date Jan 28th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Middle East

Lord Goldsmith admits he changed his mind on the legality of the Iraq war - but denies he was pressured into doing so.

Dubai to execute child’s killer

author Posted by: on date Jan 28th, 2010 | filed Filed under: Middle East

A man convicted of raping and murdering a four-year-old boy in a Dubai mosque is sentenced to death.