TEHRAN - Hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday that the people of the Middle East are “capable of removing the Zionist regime from the world scene” in an annual Palestinian solidarity day address in Tehran.
VIENNA - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has invited Israel to consider joining a global anti-nuclear arms pact and to place all its atomic facilities under his agency’s inspections, an IAEA report said on Friday.
TEHRAN - Islamist militiamen and members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards surrounded the home of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi on Friday to prevent him from joining an annual government-sponsored Palestinian solidarity rally, his website said.
TOKYO - Japan’s cabinet Friday approved new sanctions against Iran, including an assets freeze on figures linked to its nuclear programme and tighter supervision of financial transactions, media reported.
BEIRUT — A Lebanese Shia cleric known as a critic of Syrian-backed Hezbollah has been arrested in Syria on suspicion of spying for Israel, a high-ranking Lebanese security official said on Thursday.
AMMAN — Jordanian and US archaeologists have discovered what they say is a 3,000-year-old Iron Age temple dating from the country’s biblical Moabite kingdom, the antiquities department said on Thursday.
VIENNA — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed on Thursday the resumption of direct peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis, shortly before they were to begin in Washington.
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — The latest Hamas attacks in the West Bank killed Israeli settlers, but their real target was Palestinian peace negotiators in Washington, observers said Thursday.
BEIRUT - A chorus of calls for an “arms-free” Beirut in the wake of a deadly battle outside a mosque last week is fast fading as Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah warns against attempts to disarm the Shia party.
