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A Swiss criminal court convicted a member of the Kuwait royal family on Friday, Reuters has reported. Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah was found guilty of forgery. The power broker in international sports had been charged with using a bogus…

Two Palestinian fugitives were caught on Friday after an extensive manhunt for six escapees who dug their way out of high security Israeli prison Gilboa, Haaretz reported. Members of Islamic Jihad  Mahmoud Aradeh and Yakub Kadari were…

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has said that whom it described as the Libyan warlord, Khalifa Haftar, has hired ex-Clinton aide, Lanny Davis, and ex-Republican House Leader Bob Livingston, to lead a nearly $1 million effort to lobby the…

Israel launched airstrikes against Gaza on Monday night, the army said, retaliating after incendiary balloons launched from the blockaded Palestinian enclave had started fires. Blaming Hamas for the balloons, the Israeli army said it had…

Libya's Presidential Council on Monday said that the recent releases of political prisoners in the country were part of the national reconciliation efforts.A number of political prisoners who have completed their sentences or who were…

Syria has agreed to help crisis-hit Lebanon by letting gas and electricity transit through its territory, an official said on Saturday during the first high-level visit from Beirut to Damascus since Syria’s civil war erupted.Harsh fuel…

Morocco's national football team were able to leave Guinea late on Sunday, a Moroccan official said, after army putschists said they had staged a coup in the west African country.Scheduled to face Guinea in a Monday qualifier for the…

Somalia’s prime minister on Monday suspended the intelligence chief, a move the president called unconstitutional.The dispute over Fahad Yasin, the director of Somalia’s National Intelligence Service Agency (NISA), erupted after…

Pope Francis has moved to allay Jewish concerns over comments he made about their books of sacred law, following a demand for clarification from Israel’s top rabbis, Vatican and Jewish community sources said on Monday.Last month Reuters…

Al-Saadi Gaddafi, the wannabe sportsman son of the diseased dictator in Libya Muammar Gaddafi, was released from prison in Tripoli on Sunday night, the Government of National Unity and its Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah have confirmed.…