Bopanna-Matkowski lose in final of Dubai tennis meet
Dubai: India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Polish partner Marcin Matkowski produced a stiff fight before going down in the men’s doubles final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships here on Saturday.The unseeded Indo-Polish pair started strongly before going down 6-4, 3-6, 3-10 to the fourth seeded Romanian-Dutch pair of Horia Tecau and Jean-Julien Rojer.This […]
US warned Israel about annexing West Bank, says Israeli minister
Author: Associated PressMon, 2017-03-06ID: 1488800570849223100JERUSALEM: Israel’s defense minister said Monday the US has notified Israel that imposing Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank would lead to an “immediate crisis” with the Trump administration.“We received a direct message — not an indirect message and not a hint — from the United States. Imposing Israeli sovereignty on Judea and […]
Syrian fighters cut key supply route to Daesh-held Raqqa
Author: Agence France PresseMon, 2017-03-06ID: 1488796317908941800BEIRUT, Lebanon: A: US-backed forces in Syria on Monday cut off a key supply route between the Daesh group’s stronghold Raqqa and its territory in Deir Ezzor province, a commander and a monitor said.The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, seized control of the only major road […]
Iraqi troops capture Al-Hurriya bridge in Mosul
Author: ReutersMon, 2017-03-06ID: 1488793149778758000 BAGHDAD: US-backed Iraqi forces on Monday captured Mosul’s Al-Hurriya bridge, which leads to the Daesh-held old city center from the south, a military media officer told Reuters. The Al-Hurriya bridge is the second to be secured by the Iraqi forces in the city, after securing one located further south, in the offensive that […]
Netanyahu vows to remove Arafat street sign in Arab town
Author: Associated PressSun, 2017-03-05ID: 1488781341088334100JERUSALEM: Israel’s prime minister has vowed to change a street name in an Arab town honoring the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday before a cabinet meeting that he won’t allow streets “named after murderers of Israelis and Jews.”Mohammed Watad, of Jatt council in northern Israel, told Channel 2 TV the […]
Saudi Arabia leads international efforts to save children in Yemen
Author: Arab NewsMon, 2017-03-06ID: 1488757415124835400 ADEN: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has provided treatment for more than 250,000 children suffering from malnutrition in Yemen, amid reports of ongoing Houthi violations in the war-torn country. The center also provided 12 million vaccines for Yemeni children against measles, rubella, tetanus and whooping cough, the Saudi […]
Iraqi forces battle Daesh in heavy west Mosul fighting
Author: AFPMon, 2017-03-06ID: 1488751674684467400MOSUL: Iraqi forces battled Daesh in hours of heavy clashes in west Mosul on Sunday, as the number of people who fled fighting in the area topped 45,000.Iraqi forces have recaptured several areas in west Mosul since launching the push to retake it on Feb. 19, but their pace has slowed amid bad weather […]
Iran to top Israel-Russia talks on Thursday
Author: ReutersMon, 2017-03-06ID: 1488751674714467700 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday to voice opposition to what the Israeli leader charged were Iran’s attempts to establish a permanent military foothold in Syria. “In the framework of a (future peace agreement) or without one, Iran is attempting to […]
Turkey’s Erdogan likens Germany’s blocking rallies to ‘Nazi practices’
Author: AFPMon, 2017-03-06ID: 1488747032254134300 ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out Sunday at Germany for blocking several rallies there ahead of an April vote in Turkey on boosting his powers as head of state, likening it to Nazi practices. “Your practices are not different from the Nazi practices of the past,” Erdogan told a women’s rally […]
Wanted: Female candidates for Algeria’s Parliament quota
Author: The Associated PressMon, 2017-03-06ID: 1488747031964134000ALGIERS: Algerian law requires the next Parliament to be made up of 30 percent women — but political parties across the spectrum have struggled to come up with enough female candidates to fill the quota.While universities in this North African nation are increasingly full of young women, politics is still largely seen […]
