Middle-East

TRIPOLI: A pregnant woman, her husband and their three children died yesterday when their old, two-story house collapsed in the center of the Libyan capital, a neighbor said.

BENGHAZI: Bomb attacks targeted two police stations in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi yesterday, causing extensive material damage but no casualties, a security official said.

JERUSALEM: Israeli police held back thousands of ultra-conservative Jews who tried to drive liberal women worshippers from Judaism’s sacred Western Wall yesterday, marking a shift in the auth

DUBAI: Citizens charged with a coup plot in the UAE have said they were abused in custody and, in a statement on social media, demanded an independent inquiry.

TEHRAN: An Iranian man condemned to the gallows for murdering a policeman was pardoned by the victim’s family and his life saved only moments after he was hanged, the Mehr news agency reported on Th

ROME: US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted yesterday Syrian President Bashar Assad could play no role in a transitional government, on a third day of diplomatic talks seeking to help end the c

JERUSALEM: Israel has signed off on plans for nearly 300 new settler homes near Ramallah, angering the Palestinians who accused the Israeli government yesterday of trying to “sabotage”

TEHRAN: Former President Mohammad Khatami has expressed doubts about running in Iran’s presidential election on June 14, saying his participation could weaken the reformist movement, local me

TRIPOLI: A daughter of Muammar Qaddafi’s jailed former intelligence chief accused Libya yesterday of denying him access to a lawyer, family visits and exercise and she likened his detention t

ADEN: Suspected Al-Qaeda militants shot dead a Yemeni intelligence officer yesterday in the southern province of Lahj, a local security official said, a day after three air force pilots were killed