Israel wants recognition of "jewishness" in return for freeze

Palestinians decline Israeli settlement offer

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies)

The Palestinians on Monday rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand for recognition of Israel as a "Jewish state" in return for a possible settlement halt. "This order has nothing to do with the peace process or with the obligations that Israel has not implemented. This is completely...More

Explosives are 'military grade' and 'very potent': police

Powerful explosives found at NY cemetery

Eight bricks of military grade explosives, but not the detonators needed to set them off, have been discovered in a Manhattan cemetery, New York police said Monday. The bricks of powerful C4 explosive were found in a black plastic bag in the secluded New York City Marble Cemetery. One of the bricks was broken in...More

Bricks of powerful explosives found in cemetery

“Broken Heart” tackles attackers’ motives

Morocco makes first film on Casablanca attacks

A Moroccan film was released examining for the first time the motives of young suicide bombers who carried out the 2003 Casablanca bombings, the worst terrorist attack in the history of the Kingdom. “Broken Heart” was screened in the 8th Tangier Mediterranean Short Film Festival held from Oct. 4 to Oct. 9 and it tackled the reasons...More

The poster of Moroccan movie “Broken Heart”

Held after interviewing son of woman sentenced to stoning

Iran arrests two "fake" foreign journalists

According to local media the two detained were both German nationals (File)

Iran's judiciary has arrested two foreign nationals who it said were posing as journalists, the students' news agency ISNA reported Iran's...More

Ahead of the 20th Gulf Football Championship

Deadly twin bomb attack on Yemen sports center

A screen shot of a video posted on the Interenet on October 6 shows militants from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

Twin bomb blasts rocked a sports centre in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Monday, killing one person and wounding at least eight people, security and...More

Make fun of political divisions and power cuts

Gaza political jokes document Palestinian woos

Jokes constitute a shadow political party and a form of opposition, according to an expert (File)

Political jokes have started gaining popularity in Gaza as they document Palestinian internal divisions and as poking fun at calamities have become one of the...More

Karzai says "unofficial" talks with Taliban continuing

Afghan President Karzai confirms Taliban talks

Afghan President Karzai dismissed claims in a new US book about his mental health (File)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has confirmed he's been in talks with the Taliban on securing peace in war-weary Afghanistan. Karzai told CNN's...More

Chilean copper miners stuck 700 meters underground

Rescue nears for trapped Chile miners

The 33 miners have been trapped under the ground since August 5

The world holds its breath and hundreds of reporters are waiting to witness the rescue of 33 miners trapped for 67 days underground in the north of...More

Abbas told Arabs Israel has cancelled Oslo: aide

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told Arab leaders over the weekend that Israel has in effect scrapped the landmark 1993 Oslo autonomy accords, an aide said on Monday, as Paris and Madrid underlined...More

Yemen Policeman on Qaeda hit list gunned down

France says UN could set up Palestinian state

Saudi king, Allawi discuss Iraq political standoff

Washington won't appeal Gitmo witness ruling

The U.S. government on Sunday declined to appeal a New York judge's ruling that barred the key prosecution witness from testifying in the first civilian trial of an ex-Guantanamo inmate. ...More

Bin Laden’s cook moved to isolation in Gitmo

UK police arrests 8 in anti-Islamist protest

Abducted British aid worker killed during rescue

“Girls’ Dialogue" gathers 110 girls for change

A new program called “Girls’ Dialogue”, which was aired by Al Arabiya on Thursday night, zoomed in on the experience of 110 girls from 30 countries after each girl was made to pair up with a roommate...More

Four Arabs on Forbes most powerful women list

France full-face veil ban passes last legal hurdle

Peru's Vargas Llosa wins Nobel for literature

Uneven growth hinders world economic rise: IMF

The Head of the International Monetary Fund said Sunday in an interview with Al Arabiya TV that uneven economic recovery among countries impedes the global economic growth. IMF Director Dominique...More

Turkey & china establish “strategic partnership”

UAE says no Blackberry suspension on Oct. 11

Islamic banks set up liquidity management body

Palestinians mark Jericho's 10,000th anniversary

The Palestinians on Sunday marked the 10,000th anniversary of the founding of Jericho, an oasis town in the West Bank that may be the world's oldest city. The festivities...More