An increasingly isolated Nuri al-Maliki again protested his removal as Iraqi prime minister on Wednesday, as his own political party and his former sponsor in Iran publicly endorsed a successor who many in Baghdad hope can halt advancing Sunni jihadists. Although abandoned by former backers in ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks live on television after casting his ballot in the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 12, 2009./ (Reuters) - Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lent his support to new Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi on ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks live on television after casting his ballot in the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 12, 2009./ (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday nuclear talks with world powers would continue, though there ...
Nuri al-Maliki stuck to his guns and refused to accept his removal as Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday, but his hold on power was tenuous as Iran's supreme leader, a long-time Maliki ally, publicly backed his replacement. Taking to state television as acting premier, Maliki said the supreme ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday nuclear talks with world powers would continue, though there was no point in holding negotiations with the United States on other issues. "There are no benefits in having relations or negotiations with the United States, except in ...
Iraqis carry a portrait of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as they march in support of him in Ba …/ Iraqis gather to show their support of incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad Augu …/ Iraqis carry portraits of incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as they gather ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi troops imposed heightened security in Baghdad Wednesday as international support mounted for a new prime minister to replace Nouri al-Maliki, who has called on the armed forces to stay out of politics amid fears of a possible coup./ Tanks and Humvees were positioned on ...
India commemorates its Independence Day on August 15./ Aug 13 (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday nuclear talks with world powers would continue, but added there was no point in holding negotiations with the United States on other issues. Khamenei, who has ...
The US and Iran are seeing eye-to-eye on a growing number of challenges in the Middle East, including the need to replace Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq./ The US and Iran support a new Iraqi Prime Minister to replace Nouri al-Maliki. On Tuesday, al-Maliki ordered security forces not to ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, shown in a photo in January, 2014, speaking at a political meeting, said an attempt by Iraq's president to name a successor as PM is unconstitutional./ Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's defiant bid to keep his job ran into growing regional pressure ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — His days in power in Iraq appear increasingly numbered. World leaders, including his biggest ally, Iran, hail the nomination of the man who would be his successor./ There's seemingly little left for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to cling to, beyond the support of party stalwarts ...
Pressure on Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to step aside had become unbearable. Sunnis, Kurds, fellow Shi'ites, regional power broker Iran and the United States all wanted him out. Maliki calculated he may have one more chance to hold onto power after eight years in office, even though ...
The US and Iran are seeing eye-to-eye on a growing number of challenges in the Middle East, including the need to replace Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq./ , the State Department is sponsoring a series of friendly volleyball matches in southern California this week between Team USA and ...
Iraq's Nuri al-Maliki insists he should remain premier, but with a rival candidate selected with strong international backing, his bid to cling to power has reached a dead end./ President Fuad Masum tasked Haidar al-Abadi with forming a new government, but two-term premier Maliki has slammed the ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's incumbent prime minister ordered the security forces on Tuesday not to intervene in the current political crisis over who will be the next prime minister, amid fears that he could go to any lengths to keep power in the face of his increasing isolation/ After ordering his ...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lent his support to new Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi on Wednesday, the clearest sign yet that Tehran was no longer standing by old ally Nuri al-Maliki. "I hope the designation of the new prime minister in Iraq will untie the knot ...
Iran officially ended its long-time allegiance to Iraq's sidelined Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday, swinging its support behind newly designated premier Haidar al-Abadi in a congratulatory message./ The statement confirmed that Maliki had lost the crucial backing of fellow Shiite ...
Iraq's new prime minister-designate won swift endorsements from both the United States and Iran on Tuesday as he called on political leaders to end crippling feuds that have let jihadists seize a third of the country. Haider al-Abadi still faces a threat closer to home, where his Shi'ite party ...
Iraq's new prime minister-designate won swift endorsements from uneasy mutual allies the United States and Iran on Tuesday as he called on political leaders to end crippling feuds that have let jihadists seize a third of the country. Haider al-Abadi still faces opposition closer to home, where ...
The lawmaker tapped to be Iraq's new prime minister has apparently received backing from Iran/ A top Iranian security official welcomes 'the legal process of electing a new prime minister in Iraq'/ Iraq's premier-designate has 30 days to form a new government, which could be a contentious ...
GARDI SUGDUB, Panama (AP) — On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up on Gardi Sugdub in a life dedicated to the sea and tourism will trade that next week for the ...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted there will be no permanent ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas’s military and governing capabilities are destroyed and all hostages are released. His statement comes after US President Joe Biden announced Israel had proposed a three-stage plan to ...
US President Joe Biden said that 'it's time for this war to end'/ US President Joe Biden has urged Hamas to accept a new Israeli proposal to end the conflict in Gaza, saying that "it's time for this war to end". The three-part proposal would begin with a six-week ceasefire in which the Israel ...
This combination of photos provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows packaging for, from left, CRECELAC INFANT Powdered Goat-Milk Infant Formula with Iron 0 to 12 months, Farmalac BABY Powdered Infant Formula with Iron 0 to 12 months, and Farmalac BABY Powdered Infant Formula with ...
Some of the fiercest fighting of the war is reported to have taken place in Jabalia/ Israeli forces have pulled out of Jabalia in northern Gaza, after a three-week offensive there which saw tens of thousands of civilians flee the area. The military said "hundreds of terrorists [had been] ...
to become the world's bestselling foldable smartphone brand in the first quarter, marking the first time that the US-sanctioned Chinese giant has topped that segment, according to a consultancy report. Shenzhen-based Huawei saw its foldable smartphone shipments in the first three months of the ...
Former U.S. President Trump's criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records continues in New York/ (Reuters) - Donald Trump’s criminal conviction for illegally covering up a hush money payment to a porn star will not prevent the Republican candidate from pursuing his campaign to ...
While travel can be fun and rewarding, it can also be stressful. Sometimes, the stress starts before you even begin your trip: at the airport. With crowds and frequent flight delays, airports have become a particular source of agitation for travelers. Hitting traffic on the way to the airport or ...
Miners extract mud they hope contains gold at a gold mining site at which adults and youth work in the village of Mawero, on the outskirts of Busia town, in eastern Uganda on Oct. 18, 2021. Billons of dollars worth of gold is smuggled out of Africa each year, according to a report published ...
Smoke rises following an explosion in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near the Israel-Gaza border, as seen from Israel/ (Reuters) - Hamas said on Thursday it had told mediators it would not take part in more negotiations during ongoing ...