Middle East
Barack Obama meets Syrian opposition leader in Washington
U.S. President Barack Obama has denounced the upcoming presidential election in Syria slated for June 3 as illegitimate, the White House stated ...Death toll from Turkish coal mine disaster rises to 238
At least 238 people were killed and hundreds more remained trapped underground after an explosion and fire in a coal mine in ...Turkish coal mine explosion kills hundreds
The death toll in a mine explosion in western Turkey jumped to 201, a provincial mayor told CNN Turk news channel on ...UN special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi resigns
U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi resigned Tuesday after trying for nearly two years to overcome “almost impossible odds” to end ...Bomb blasts in Baghdad kill 28 people
A wave of car bombings in Baghdad killed 28 people on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a surge in violence that ...Former Israeli PM Olmert sentenced to six years in prison for bribery conviction
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison for his conviction for accepting bribes in the Holyland ...Deadly suicide bombing strikes southern Yemen
A suicide car bomber killed 12 Yemeni army officers and wounded many others today after targeting a military police building in the ...Militants execute 20 soldiers in north Iraq
Authorities in Iraq have found the bodies of 20 soldiers shot dead after being kidnapped from a northern military base, and a ...Merkel dice que el Gobierno alemán apoyaría la unión de Siemens y Alstom
La canciller alemana, Angela Merkel, dijo el sábado que su Gobierno apoyaría una unión entre la firma de ingeniería alemana Siemens y ...Violence including Fallujah shelling kills 22 in Iraq
At least 22 people have died at different locations near the Iraqi capital in a fresh wave of attacks, as the country ...




