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East Asia
China-Kenya sign US$ 5 billion funding agreement for development projects
The state visit to China by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has effectively helped unlock billions of dollars to finance several Vision 2030 Flagship projects, officials said on Tuesday. The Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat (VDS) Director General Mugo Kibati said the funding commitments extended by the Chinese government and related development…
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West Asia
The top leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood arrested in Cairo
General Guide of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie was arrested by police in Cairo, official news agency MENA reported early Tuesday, citing a security source. He has been transferred with intensive security measures to Torah prison, where former President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are detained, the report said.…
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West Asia
The East associated with the Arab historically, culturally and economically
[Editor’s note] Dr. Sulaiman Ibrahim Al-Askari is one of the most famous Arab intellectuals. He studied the history of Arabia in Cairo, Egypt and Mancester, U.K., where he got his PhD. in history. Back to his country, Kuwait, he started teaching University of Kuwait, but the cultural projects of his…
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West Asia
Egypt’s DM vows to stand firm against violence amid warnings of war
Egypt’s DM vows to stand firm against violence, Islamists cancel marches Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel Fatah al-Sisi vowed on Sunday to stand firm against violence, as supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi cancelled some of their planned marches in Cairo for “security reasons.” The army chief said so in a…
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West Asia
Iran’s parliament approves Rouhani’s candidates for cabinet posts except 3
Iran’s Majlis (parliament) on Thursday approved President Hassan Rouhani’s candidates for key posts in his cabinet while disqualifying three other nominees. Iran’s Majlis had started to study the qualifications of the 18- member cabinet line-up on Monday. Bijan Namdar-Zanganeh, who served as minister of energy from 1988 to 1997 and…
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West Asia
Death toll reaches 638 in Egypt as gov’t declares state of emergency
Weeping relatives in search of loved ones uncovered the faces of the bloodied, unclaimed dead in a Cairo mosque near the smoldering epicenter of support for ousted President Mohammed Morsi, as the death toll soared past 600 Thursday from Egypt’s deadliest day since the Arab Spring began. World condemnation widened…
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West Asia
Supporters of ousted Morsi wave posters and clash anew with police in Cairo
Supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi wave his posters and national flags as one carries her daughter with a mask of him during a protest in Nahda Square, where protesters have installed their camp near Cairo University in Giza, southwestern Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013. Egypt’s interim president…
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West Asia
Israel frees 26 Palestinian prisoners before long-stalled Mideast peace talks
A newly released Palestinian prisoner is greeted by his relatives and friends after his arrival at the presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 14, 2013. Twenty-six Palestinian prisoners released by Israel arrived in the West Bank City of Ramallah and the Gaza Strip early Wednesday. <Xinhua/NEWSis>…
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South Asia
Israel publishes name of 26 men to be freed before Israel-Palestine peace talks
Mustafa al-Haj expected to die in an Israeli prison for killing an American-born settler hiking in the West Bank in 1989. Now lights decorate his home to celebrate the planned release of the 45-year-old and more than 100 other Palestinian convicts in a deal that revived Mideast peace talks. While…
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West Asia
Car bombings attacks in Baghdad kill 60 people celebrating end of Ramadan
More than 60 people were killed and over 200 others wounded in a wave of bombings attacks across Iraq on Saturday, mostly in the capital Baghdad, according to latest data given by officials and local media. A total of 12 car bombs went off in Baghdad, mostly targeting markets, restaurants…
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