Iran blocks former president's website ahead of vote

Turkey's PM pledges full probe into deadly raid
ANKARA, (Reuters) - Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Friday promised a full investigation into airstrikes on the Iraqi border that killed 35 villagers whom the military had mistaken for Kurdish militants - an attack that has infuriated minority ... more Iran blocks former president's website ahead of vote
TEHRAN, (Reuters) - Iran has blocked the website of influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ahead of parliamentary elections, for carrying pro-reform critical statements, Iran's semi-official ILNA news agency reported on Friday. The clerical ... more Iran to fire long-range missiles in drill - agency
TEHRAN, (Reuters) - Iran will fire long-range missiles during a naval drill in the Gulf on Saturday, a semi-official news agency reported, a show of force at a time when Iran has threatened to close shipping lanes if the West imposes sanctions on its ... more U.S. mulls transfer of Taliban prisoner in peace bid
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) - The Obama administration is considering transferring to Afghan custody a senior Taliban official suspected of major human rights abuses as part of a long-shot bid to improve the prospects of a peace deal in Afghanistan, Reuters ... more Iran warns U.S. over Strait of Hormuz
TEHRAN, (Reuters) - A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Thursday the United States was not in a position to tell Tehran "what to do in the Strait of Hormuz," state television reported, after the U.S. said it would preserve oil shipments ... more Kurdish rebels call for 'uprising' after air strike
ULUDERE, Turkey (AFP) - Kurdish separatists in Turkey on Friday called for an uprising after an air strike killed 35 villagers near the Iraqi border in what the ruling party admitted could have been a mistake. As locals prepared to bury their dead, ... more Israel kills al Qaeda-linked chief in Gaza strike
GAZA/JERUSALEM, (Reuters)- Israel killed the leader of an al Qaeda-inspired faction in the Gaza Strip on Friday, accusing him of involvement in firing rockets and a planned attack on the Jewish state from the neighbouring Egyptian Sinai. The deadly ... more Sadrists refused to take over our ministerial portfolios Iraqiya bloc
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat Senior Iraqiya bloc MP, Ziad al-Dharib, informed Asharq Al-Awsat that the Sadrist trend within the Iraqi cabinet strongly refused the proposal put forward by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to appoint Sadrist ministers, or ... more Gaddafi-era minister forced to resign
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- Despite the celebrations that have swept various Libyan cities for the first time to mark the 60th anniversary of its independence in 1951- an occasion that the regime of the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi had consistently ignored- ... more Bombs, threats ahead of New Year in Lebanon resort
TYRE, Lebanon,(AFP) Zuheir Arnaout seethed with anger as he surveyed the damage from a bomb that targeted his restaurant in Tyre, one of the few cities in southern Lebanon where alcohol is still tolerated. "What is it they want? To stop people from ... more Amid bloodshed, Hamas prepares to leave Syria
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) Alarmed by bloody unrest in Syria, the Hamas militant group has pulled out many of its lower-level cadres from its Damascus headquarters and made contingency plans to move its leadership to locations across the Middle East, ... more Turkish air strikes kill 23 Kurds near Iraq
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey , (AFP) Turkish air strikes killed 23 Kurdish villagers in the southeast near the Iraqi border early Thursday, an official of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) said. Provincial officials found 23 bodies at Ortasu ... more US to sell F-15s to Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON (AP) The Obama administration is poised to announce the sale of nearly $30 billion worth of F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, U.S. officials said Wednesday. The deal will send 84 new fighter jets and upgrades for 70 more, for a total ... more Syrians fire on protesters near monitors, kill 2
BEIRUT (AP) Syrian security forces opened fire Thursday on tens of thousands protesting outside a mosque in a Damascus suburb, close to a municipal building that members of the Arab League monitoring mission were visiting. Activists said at least ... more Egypt: virginity test victim receiving death threats
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat The Cairo administrative court yesterday ordered an end to the Egyptian militarys practice of conducting forced virginity tests on female detainees, ruling this practice as being illegal. The court also ruled that head ... more Iraqi figures warn of dictatorship, civil war
NEW YORK, (AFP) Leading Iraqi figures on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of trying to assemble a new dictatorship that risked plunging the country into civil war now that US troops have withdrawn. In an op-ed published in the New ... more Iran 'sentences opposition figure to jail'
TEHRAN, (AFP) Iran has sentenced Ebrahim Yazdi, the head of a banned opposition party and a former foreign minister, to eight years in prison for "attempting to act against national security," his lawyer said Wednesday. Mohammad Ali Dadkhah told ... more Egypt's Mubarak back in court as trial resumes
CAIRO (AP) Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak was brought back to a Cairo courtroom on Wednesday for the resumption of his trial after a three-month break. Mubarak has been charged with complicity in the deaths of nearly 840 protesters in the crackdown ... more Arabs put credibility on line with Syria mission
CAIRO (AP) Arab League monitors have only just begun to deploy in the crisis zones of Syria on Tuesday and officials from the 22-member organization were already worried that President Bashar Assad may be succeeding in undermining a mission intended ... more

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