French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has urged Iran to take the last offer on the table to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with the United States and key powers, saying the window of opportunity “is about to close.” Failure in the nuclear negotiation…
Lebanon negotiator in U.S. to conclude Israeli border talks
Lebanon’s point-person for U.S.-mediated talks to demarcate its maritime border with Israel has arrived in New York, while Lebanese President Michel Aoun says negotiations for a rare deal between the two enemy states have entered their “final stages”. …
Beirut protesters demand release of bank heist detainees
Protesters scuffled with Lebanese security forces Monday outside the Justice Ministry in Beirut, demanding the release of two people arrested last week during a bank heist. The clash came as a delegation from the International Monetary Fund held meetin…
Scholz to visit Saudi as Germany seeks energy supplies
Chancellor Olaf Scholz will visit Saudi Arabia and meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as part of a Gulf trip, his spokesman said Monday, as Germany rushes to secure energy supplies. Scholz, whose two-day trip next weekend will also take him to…
Yemen: STC takes important Al-Qaeda base in Abyan province
Separatists in Yemen said they have taken control of an important Al-Qaeda base in the country’s Abyan province, according to a report on Sunday. Mohammad Al-Naqeeb, a spokesperson for the Southern Transitional Council (STC), said the site was located …
Egypt unveils Rameses II-era ‘royal secretary’ sarcophagus
Egypt unveiled Monday a sarcophagus of a senior royal official from over 3,200-years ago at the Saqqara archaeological site south of Cairo, the latest in a series of spectacular discoveries in the area. A team of Egyptian archaeologists from Cairo Univ…
United Arab Emirates to launch first lunar rover in November
The United Arab Emirates will launch its first lunar rover in November, the mission manager said Monday. Hamad Al Marzooqi told The National, a state-linked newspaper, that the “Rashid” rover, named for Dubai’s ruling family, would be launched from the…
Iranian woman one of last people to see queen’s coffin
One of the last people to see Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin before herstate funeral on Monday morning was a woman of Iranian origin whose connection to the late monarch goes back several decades. 55-year-old Sima Mansouri from Croydon, south of London, q…
Switzerland court sentences woman over ‘IS’ knife attack
A Swiss woman was given a nine-year jail term on Monday for slashing two people in the name of the Islamic State group but her sentence was suspended so she can undergo psychiatric treatment. The court found the woman, who cannot be named for legal rea…
Pakistan to drop terrorism charges against former PM Khan
A Pakistan high court on Monday ordered removal of terrorism charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, his defence lawyer said. The court said Khan’s alleged offence didn’t attract terrorism charges, Faisal Chaudhry, the lawyer told Reuters. Th…