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U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has approved six secret authorizations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, according to a copy of a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. The Trump administration has quietly pursued a wider deal on sharing U.S. nuclear power technology with …

About 150 Palestinian students threw firebombs and rocks at Israeli soldiers who responded with tear gas and rubber-coated metal bullets in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday after an Israeli raid on their university. Also on Wednesday, a 17-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops during clashes with stone-throwers …

Dubai’s economy grew 1.94 percent in 2018, the government said on Wednesday, hitting its slowest pace since a contraction in 2009 when the economy was hobbled by a debt crisis. “A weakening external backdrop, a strong U.S. dollar and the ongoing correction in the property market are headwinds for a …

U.N. World Food Program Director David Beasley is traveling to Mozambique Tuesday to draw attention to the devastation caused by the cyclone that recently struck the area of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in the southeastern part of Africa. The trip comes a day after the top U.N. aid chief said …

Britain’s beleaguered Theresa May gathered her ministers Tuesday for yet another emergency Cabinet meeting as the House of Commons upended centuries of constitutional practice and seized control of parliamentary business from the government in a bid to end the long-running Brexit impasse. A series of “indicative votes” planned for Wednesday …

A senior Venezuelan official has confirmed that two Russian planes have landed in the country after authorization by President Nicolas Maduro. Cabello made the remarks in a speech broadcast on state television on Monday, without providing further details. His emphasis on the legitimate government in Venezuela was because an opposition …

Iraq totally rejects U.S. President Donald Trump’s proclamation to recognize the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as part of Israel, Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali al-Hakim tweeted on Monday. “Iraq considers the Golan Heights an occupied Syrian territory and it should be placed under the Syrian sovereignty pursuant to (U.N.) Security Council …

eople have held protests all over Syria to denounce the United States’ recent move to recognize Israeli “sovereignty” over the part of Syria’s Golan Heights that has been occupied by the Tel Aviv regime. The rallies took place in the Syrian capital, Damascus, as well as other cities in the …

Thousands of people rallied in Algiers on Tuesday calling on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to quit, keeping up the pressure in weeks of protests that threaten to topple him and the elderly elite that has helped keep him in power for 20 years. Bouteflika, among the veterans of the 1954-62 war …

Oil rose to around $68 a barrel on Tuesday as OPEC supply cuts and expectations of lower U.S. inventories outweighed concern about weaker demand due to an economic slowdown.The price of global benchmark Brent crude has risen by more than 25 percent in 2019, supported by supply curbs by the …

Millions of Yemenis have taken to the streets of the capital, Sana’a, and other major cities to mark the fourth anniversary of the Saudi regime’s devastating war against the Arab country and reiterate their steadfastness in the face of the ongoing aggression. Many provinces and cities, including Sana’a, Sa’ada, Ta’izz, …

U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights in an election boost for visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, prompting a sharp response from Syria, which once held the strategic land. With Netanyahu looking over his shoulder at the White House, Trump signed a proclamation officially …

At least 18 people have died and more than 70 injured, after heavy rains caused severe flooding across Iran. The flood waters blocked roads and triggered landslides. Rescue agencies and aid workers have been helping the displaced, while emergency services have warned of more heavy rain to come.

Iraq’s parliament voted on Sunday to sack the governor of Nineveh after an overloaded ferry capsized, killing at least 90 people, in the provincial capital Mosul, state media said. The boat was carrying families heading to an outing on an island in the Tigris River on Thursday when it sank. …

Dozens of Druze Arabs, some carrying Syrian flags and pictures of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, gathered on the Golan Heights on Saturday to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s support for Israeli sovereignty over the territory. The mountainous plateau was part of Syria until Israel captured it in the 1967 Middle …

An overcrowded ferry capsized in the Tigris River near Mosul, killing at least 102 people during Nowruz and Mother’s Day celebrations on Thursday, officials said. Among the victims were at least 12 children, officials have said. Of the more than 170 people who were on board, about 60 are missing, …

An eight-year-old homeless refugee from Nigeria has been crowned chess champion in New York’s annual state-wide tournament. Tanitoluwa Adewumi, who lives in a Manhattan homeless shelter with his family, beat off several children with their own private chess tutors to win the third grade title. Known as Tani to his …

  Oil prices rose to new 2019 highs on Tuesday, supported by supply cuts from OPEC and falling output Brent crude oil futures were up 55 cents at $68.09 per barrel at 1145 GMT, having earlier risen to a new 2019 high of $68.16 a barrel, their highest since November …

At least one person was missing on Monday after devastating floods across the U.S. Midwest that killed three others and inflicted hundreds of millions of dollars in damage in what Nebraska’s governor called a disaster of historic proportions. As floodwaters began to recede in much of the area inundated by …

The speaker of the British parliament has announced in a shocking statement that the government would be barred from returning to the chamber for a third vote on its controversial European Union withdrawal agreement if the deal on offer is the same as the one defeated two times this year. …