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Yemeni security forces shot dead two southern Yemeni activists during a demonstration Thursday in Daleh against presidential elections to be held later this month, witnesses and activists said. “Southerner wake up, no more elections,”

Iraqi authorities executed at least 65 people in the first 40 days of 2012 for various offenses, including 14 on a single day, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director of the New York-based advocacy

The richest man in the world, Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim Helu, will fund a movie inspired by the French novel “Ports of Call” featuring Egypt’s Omar Sharif. Inas Bakir, general manager of Sharif, told Alarabiya that Helu, who highly admires

Syria’s top Muslim cleric has thanked Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his unwavering support of Syria’s government as it deals with widespread unrest, the presidency website reported Thursday. Grand Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Badreddin

China said on Thursday that a Syrian opposition delegation had visited the country this week and met a vice foreign minister, the first contact reported by Beijing in the wake of its veto in the U.N. of a draft resolution on the country. The

Australia denied as “nonsense” Thursday claims in a British newspaper that it played an “integral” part in illegally detaining prisoners of war at a secret Iraqi desert jail in 2003. The Guardian, citing a U.S. military document, said

Israel’s mounting speculation that Iran is moving closer to developing a nuclear weapon could have “catastrophic consequences,” a senior Russian foreign ministry official warned Thursday. “The inventions” concerning Iran’s nuclear

Israel?s stance on Iran could be ?catastrophic? (AFP) Khaleej Times 9 February 2012 MOSCOW - Israel?s hard-line approach to speculation that Iran is seeking to develop a nuclear weapon could have ?catastrophic consequences?, a senior Russian foreign

Chinese-made bullets and aircraft bought from Russia are used to commit rights violations in Sudan’s Darfur under an ineffective U.N. arms embargo, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The London-based rights watchdog aired similar

The Hamas prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, is on Friday to make a visit to Iran, which is celebrating the anniversary of its 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian government officials said. The Palestinian leader was to be received by