Posts Tagged ‘middle-east’

Reuters – Dubai struggled to ease fears of debt default on Thursday after its move to delay repayments at two flagship firms shook confidence in the Middle East as a center for investment and a source of capital.

Mahmud Abbas on Thursday dismissed Israel’s temporary freeze on settlement building as bringing “nothing new” to the long-stalled Middle East peace process.

AP – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlement construction in what he says is an attempt to jumpstart Mideast peace talks.

AFP – Israel on Wednesday fended off criticism of its approval of hundreds of new homes in annexed Arab east Jerusalem as France urged a resumption of stalled Middle East peace talks.

AP – German prosecutors said Friday they have dropped an investigation of a Russian businessman who had been suspected of transporting a radioactive substance used in the fatal poisoning of a former Russian agent in London in 2006.

Reuters – A suicide car bomber attacked an office used by Pakistan’s main intelligence agency in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing 10 people and wounding 60, officials said.

AP – Iran’s closest allies in the Middle East are seizing on a deadlock in U.S.-backed peace efforts to try to sway a frustrated Arab world to their side.

AP – Mexico’s most-wanted drug lord escaped prison by hiding in a laundry truck nearly a decade ago, and his legend and fortune seem to grow with each passing day he eludes capture.

AP – In a decade-long journey, the Tunisian went from drug pusher on the streets of Milan to Islamic militant trained in Afghanistan to kill Americans to potential key witness against Guantanamo Bay detainees.

AFP – Former players Wednesday hailed Younus Khan’s decision of opting to sit out the three-Test series in New Zealand and handing the captaincy to Mohammad Yousuf.