A suicide bomber has blown himself up in a southern district of the Lebanese capital Beirut wounding several people, officials say. The interior minister said the bomber detonated explosives in a minibus during rush hour in Choueifat district. The area is home to a largely Christian and Druze population. There...
Heavy snow in northern Iran has left around 480,000 homes without power and some towns and villages cut off. An official in Mazandaran province, on the Caspian Sea, said the winter storms were the worst in 50 years, with two metres of snow falling in some areas since the weekend....
US Secretary of State John Kerry has asked Russia to press its ally Syria into speeding up the removal of chemical weapons. The US says only about 4% of chemical weapons declared by the Syrian government have so far been removed. Mr Kerry raised the issue with Russian Foreign Minister...
Iraqi security forces have ended a hostage crisis at a government building in Baghdad, but there are conflicting reports about the number of casualties. Officials said the six men who had stormed the transport ministry facility and taken several hostages were killed. Two policemen who had been guarding the building...
Iraqi security forces have ended a hostage crisis at a government building in Baghdad, but there are conflicting reports about the number of casualties. Officials said the six men who had stormed the transport ministry facility and taken several hostages were killed. Two policemen who had been guarding the building...
Israeli defence computers were compromised via a malicious email attachment, a computer security firm has revealed. The email was spoofed to look like it had been sent by Israel’s Shin Bet secret service tricking several people into opening it, said Seculert. The attack left hackers temporarily in control of 15...
Tunisia’s parliament has adopted a new constitution – the first since the ousting of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali three years ago. The National Constituent Assembly passed the text by 200 votes from 216. Analysts say politicians hope it will send out a message of stability after months of deadlock...
Tunisia’s parliament has adopted a new constitution – the first since the ousting of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali three years ago. The National Constituent Assembly passed the text by 200 votes from 216. Analysts say politicians hope it will send out a message of stability after months of deadlock...
At least 26 people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police and medics say. Some 60 people may have also been wounded in the explosions, reports say. The deadliest single attack, in which seven people died, struck a busy market in the...
The UN secretary general says that half of Syria’s population, some 9.3 million people, are in urgent need of aid. Ban Ki-moon was speaking at a donor conference in Kuwait promoting the UN’s largest ever appeal for a single issue. The meeting aimed to raise $6.5bn (£4bn) – it had...
