Middle-East

CAIRO: Egypt’s highest appeals court upheld on Wednesday the acquittal of 24 Hosni Mubarak loyalists tried on charges of having organized a medieval-style attack by camel- and horse-riding supporter

LONDON: Physicist Stephen Hawking has dropped plans to attend a major conference in Israel in June, prompting criticism Wednesday from Israeli officials who believe he has joined a boycott organized t

GENEVA: The number of Syrians displaced within their homeland by the vicious civil war has reached 4.25 million, the UN humanitarian office said yesterday.

CAIRO: Nine new Egyptian ministers took oath of office yesterday before President Muhammad Mursi, bringing two new members of his Muslim Brotherhood into top economic posts in a limited Cabinet shu

TRIPOLI: Libya’s defense minister yesterday rescinded his decision to resign in protest over the continuous show of force by militias that stormed government buildings in what Mohammed Al-Bar

TEHRAN: Iran began registering candidates yesterday for a June 14 presidential vote, the first in the Islamic republic since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election sparked months of viole

GENEVA: The number of Syrians displaced within their homeland by the vicious civil war has reached 4.25 million, the UN humanitarian office said Tuesday.

BAGHDAD: Two car bombs blew up in a Baghdad suburb, the deadlier of two attacks yesterday that left at least 10 dead in the Iraqi capital.

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Beijing yesterday, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to follow him later this week.

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s supreme court yesterday upheld life terms on two Iranians, a Kuwaiti and a stateless on charges of forming a ring to spy for neighboring Iran.