Saturday, 01 June 2013 20:40
Posted by Muhammad Iqbal
NICOSIA: Cyprus has rescinded citizenship briefly bestowed upon a Syrian billionaire suspected by the European Union of helping to bankroll President Bashar al-Assad's government, authorities said on Saturday.Rami Makhlouf, who is a maternal cousin of Assad, is widely considered part of the Syrian president's inner circle and one of the most influential men in Syria.Cyprus granted him citizenship in January 2011, and it was later extended to his wife and three sons. But in August ...
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BEIRUT: A missile hit a village near Syria's second city of Aleppo overnight, killing 26 people including six women and eight children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday."At midnight on Sunday, 26 people were killed, including six women and eight children, when what appears to have been a surface-to-surface missile struck the village of Kfar Hamra," said the Observatory."Regime forces have taken surrounding orchards and are trying to take the village, and then to break the rebel siege of Nubl and Zahra," two villages north of Aleppo, the Britain-based watchdog added.Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2013 ...
BEIRUT: A key bloc within Syria's main opposition National Coalition announced its withdrawal from the body on Monday, accusing some leaders of misusing funds and being motivated by personal ambition. The Syrian Revolution General Commission said in a statement: "We are withdrawing from the Coalition because it is taking initiatives far removed from the true revolution and cannot represent the revolution in an authentic way."A member of the National Coalition since its creation, the SRGC ...
VIENNA: Extensive construction activities at Iran's Parchin military base may have removed all evidence of alleged nuclear weapons research, the head of the UN atomic agency said on Monday."As our verification capacity has been negatively impacted by extensive activities (at Parchin), it may no longer be possible to find anything even if we are given access," Yukiya Amano of the International Atomic Energy Agency told reporters in Vienna.He said however that agency inspectors still wanted ...
BAGHDAD: Iraq's oil exports fell to 2.484 million barrels per day (bpd) in May from 2.62 million bpd in April due to a slowdown in Kirkuk oil shipments after repeated pipeline attacks and maintenance operations in the south, two government oil officials said on Monday.Iraq shipped 2.198 million bpd from the southern oil hub of Basra and 286,000 bpd from the northern fields around Kirkuk, including 15,000 barrels trucked to Jordan, the officials said.Copyright Reuters, ...
BAGHDAD: More than 7,000 Syrian refugees in Iraq have crossed back to the rebel-held Syrian border town of Albu Kamal in recent weeks due to better security there, an Iraqi official said on Sunday.The reverse flow coincides with a lull in battles and air raids by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's military, which has been on the offensive elsewhere in Syria, especially in the western town of Qusair, around Damascus and in the south.The mayor of ...
NICOSIA: Cyprus has rescinded citizenship briefly bestowed upon a Syrian billionaire suspected by the European Union of helping to bankroll President Bashar al-Assad's government, authorities said on Saturday.Rami Makhlouf, who is a maternal cousin of Assad, is widely considered part of the Syrian president's inner circle and one of the most influential men in Syria.Cyprus granted him citizenship in January 2011, and it was later extended to his wife and three sons. But in August ...
BAGHDAD: More than 1,000 people were killed in violence in Iraq in May, making it the deadliest month since the sectarian slaughter of 2006-07, the United Nations reported on Saturday, stoking fears of a return to civil war."That is a sad record," Martin Kobler, the UN envoy in Baghdad, said in a statement. "Iraqi political leaders must act immediately to stop this intolerable bloodshed."This week multiple bombings battered capital Baghdad, killing nearly 100 people. Most ...
