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US President Barack Obama has condemned what he called Russia’s “dark tactics” and “bullying” in Ukraine, prompting President Vladimir Putin to hit back at American “aggression,” as diplomatic wrangling between the two countries escalated. Obama met Ukraine’s president-elect Petro Poroshenko in the Polish capital of Warsaw on Wednesday, and promised years of US support, then blasted Russia and vowed to protect former Soviet states and domains in NATO, […]

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Robert S. Ford, who was United States ambassador to Syria when the country’s uprising began in 2011 and went on to carry out American policy from abroad on the ensuing civil war, has revealed that he gave up his post in February because he could “no longer defend the policy in public.” Mr. Ford made the remarks on Tuesday night on PBS NewsHour. A […]

A suicide car bomber has targeted the home of a renegade Libyan general who has been leading an offensive against armed groups in Benghazi, military officials say. The attack on the home of General Khalifa Haftar on Wednesday left three people dead and injured four others. There were conflicting reports on whether Haftar was injured in the attack, which took place in the eastern city of Benghazi.  Haftar’s […]

In the small number of other countries that have legalised assisted suicide, there have been mistakes Photo: PA As a psychiatrist I have spent my working life helping people to find a reason for living and to make sense of disability – not a reason to hasten their death. So imagine my concern to find yet another attempt to legalise what is euphemistically called ‘assisted dying’ planned for […]

Egyptians celebrate in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on June 3 after ex-army chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi won 96.9% of votes in Egypt’s presidential election.  Getty Images Tamer El-Ghobashy for The Wall Street Journal Tamer El-Ghobashy, one of The Wall Street Journal’s Cairo-based correspondents, will host a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Wednesday, June 4, at noon ET. Mr. El-Ghobashy will answer questions on everything from Egypt’s presidential elections, expectations […]

UAE Central Bank data Lending to construction in the United Arab Emirates is booming again, underlining a rapid return in confidence despite the heavy toll bad real estate loans took on local banks during the global financial crisis. Banks had extended almost 181 billion dirhams ($49 billion) of credit to the construction sector last year, according to recently released central bank figures, up from AED129 billion in […]

The Taliban have released footage of the moments of their handover of US army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl to US forces after his five years in captivity. The video posted on Wednesday, which cannot be independently verified, apparently shows Taliban fighters walking Bergdahl towards a US military helicopter while holding a white flag. A group of men, believed to be US special forces, then take Bergdahl back to the helicopter […]

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The United States is calling on Egypt’s president-elect, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, to carry out reforms to ensure the government is accountable and transparent while protecting “the universal rights of all Egyptians.” A White House statement Wednesday said President Barack Obama plans to speak with Sissi in the coming days, following the official announcement the former army chief won 97 percent of the vote in last week’s election. Egypt […]

Three Saudi lawyers were sentenced this week to fines of more than 1 million Saudi riyals ($266,666) in total and a complete media ban after they criticized the kingdom’s Ministry of Justice on Twitter. The lawyers were also ordered to issue a formal apology to Justice Minister Mohammed Al Isa. In complaints filed last November with a Ministry of Culture and Information’s legal committee responsible for looking […]

The most recent flare-up in the long-running fight between the Yemeni Army and Shiite insurgents in the country’s north has killed hundreds of people in the past three weeks, local officials said Tuesday. The clashes, in Amran Province, began when the rebels sought to claim new territory closer to the capital, said Ahmad al-Bakry, the province’s deputy governor. He said more than 500 people had been killed, […]

Saudi Arabia revised sharply upward the number of cases of the new MERS virus within its borders and said it had been fatal in more than 40 percent of the cases. After a review of medical records, the country’s total number of cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome since the virus was isolated in 2012 is now 688, up from 575; the death toll is 282, not […]

Election officials began counting votes in Syria’s presidential election early on Wednesday as polls closed in government-held areas. State-run media reported that voting closed at midnight and that officials began the process of checking the number of votes against lists of registered voters to ensure the numbers matched. Syrians on Tuesday voted in their first election in nearly 50 years, which the incumbent Bashar al-Assad is widely […]

WASHINGTON — Did the search for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl cost the lives of American soldiers? Since last weekend’s prisoner exchange in which Afghan insurgents turned over Sergeant Bergdahl after five years of captivity, a number of the men who served with him have called him a deserter. Some have gone further, blaming him for the deaths of six to eight soldiers. That second claim is hardening into […]

NATO defence ministers have agreed to bolster protection in eastern Europe after the Ukraine crisis, but have insisted they are acting within the limits of a key post-Cold War treaty with Moscow. NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen said ministers had agreed to develop a “readiness action plan… to respond to the changed security environment” created by the escalating conflict in Ukraine. This will include measures such as […]

WASHINGTON — The relatives of three United States citizens killed in American drone strikes without trial, including Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric, have decided not to appeal a federal judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit they filed against Obama administration officials. The lawsuit sought unspecified damages against several top national security officials for the deaths from two drone strikes in Yemen in 2011; the victims also included […]

WASHINGTON — The White House argued on Tuesday that the “unique circumstances” presented by the opportunity to return Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl gave President Obama the authority to lawfully bypass a federal statute requiring the Pentagon to notify Congress a month before he transferred the five Taliban detainees necessary to complete the deal. But the White House was forced by turns to defend its decision not to notify Congress […]

DUBAI // The founder of a website offering relationship and sex advice for married Muslim couples says he is trying to change attitudes across the region. Karaz.me was launched in Palestine three months ago and has already attracted much attention, but its chief executive, Ashraf Al Kiswani, insists all of its products and services adhere to religious standards. Now he is hoping to attract customers in the […]

ABU DHABI // A little boy who has overcome deafness to become an academic star at school has received a personal letter of praise from Barack Obama. “I am proud of you for pushing yourself academically,” the US president told Yusuf Batha, “and I am counting on you to continue to set a good example to help others whenever you have the opportunity.” Mr Obama also told […]

DUBAI // Hanan Al Attar has made it her life’s work to ensure children with special needs feel included in mainstream education. Ms Al Attar created a programme using music and interactive games to teach children with physical or mental disabilities basic lessons in mathematics, Arabic and English. “For a Child’s Smile”, is used in most schools in the Sharjah Educational Zone and won Ms Al Attar […]

ABU DHABI // If Daniel Bekai has his way, robots will be common features in homes of the future. Daniel, 16, wants to live in a world where humans command robots to perform the mundane tasks that an artificially intelligent machine would be better at anyway. “Suppose you’re in your house and you want some yogurt, you can build a robot that gets yogurt from your fridge […]

DUBAI // A drunk, jealous maid who was jailed for seven years for trying to stab another maid to death because she stole her boyfriend had her sentence upheld at the Dubai Court of Appeal on Wednesday. Nepali D P, 28, aided by another person identified in court records as N B, attacked Sri Lankan N S, 32, on April 2 last year. At Dubai Criminal Court last October the […]

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has won Egypt’s presidential elections by a huge majority, the country’s election commission has said. The former military chief, who last July overthrew Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, won 96.91 of legal votes cast in last week’s election. SISI 23,780,104 (96.91%) SABAHI 757,511 (3.09%) Accepting the result, Sisi urged Egyptians to work to restore stability and achieve “freedom” and “social justice”. “I look forward to your […]

By Alan Cochrane, Scottish Editor 8:59PM BST 03 Jun 2014 A FUNNY thing happened to me on my way to save the Union yesterday; Gordon Brown cracked a joke and everyone laughed. Mind you, there was a bit of a delay, a sort of double-take, whilst the people in the room – assorted Labour politicians and reporters – worked out if their ears had deceived them or […]

Voters at a polling station in the Maidan district of Damascus were regaled by Damascene sword dancers and Assad chants. Syria went to the polls Tuesday, despite a civil war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions. Pro-government voters stuffed ballot boxes and held rallies outside polling stations as Syrians in regime-held areas of the country cast ballots in an election widely seen as a bid […]

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