23 July 2017 (Reuters) Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan traveled to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on Sunday, the Gulf states' official news agencies reported, as part of a diplomatic tour aimed at healing an Arab rift with Ankara's ally Qatar. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties and imposed sanctions on Qatar...

Amman, Jordan 24 July 2017 (Yahoo News/AFP) Two Jordanians were killed and an Israeli seriously wounded in a shooting Sunday at the Jewish state's embassy in Amman, a security source said. "The first Jordanian, 17-year-old Mohammed Jawawdeh, succumbed to his injuries at the scene. The second, Bashar Hamarneh, a doctor who was in the residential...

London (Anadolu News) 22 July 2017 Hundreds of British Palestinians staged a protest in front of Israel’s London embassy against the latest restrictions around the Muslims’ third holiest site in Jerusalem on Saturday. The emergency protest called for by the Palestinian Forum in Britain saw protesters from all ages, and organizers said they held the...

Ankara 23 July 2017 (Anadolu New) Turkish president said Sunday that friends should not deceive other, referring to recent remarks made by a US general over change of PKK/PYD's name to Syrian Democratic Forces. The head of U.S. special forces Army Gen. Raymond Thomas said Friday that rebranding to Syrian Democratic Forces was done to...

Islamabad 21 July 2017 (APP) Sea food Exports from the country during 12 months of previous financial year (2016-17) increased by 21.35 percent as compared the exports of the corresponding period of financial year 2015-16. During the financial year 2016-17, country earned US$ 394.217 million by exporting about 152,858 metric tons of fish and fish...

Doha, Qatar 23 July 2017 A group of 17 European lawyers, doctors and journalists called on the siege countries to lift the blocked immediately. They also asked to protect the dignity of those families suffering due to already 45 days long blocked by providing immediate financial help to meet their day today immediate basic needs....

Zamboanga City, Philippines 21 July 2017 (Anadolou News) President Rodrigo Duterte has scrapped peace talks with communist rebels after they allegedly conducted a series of attacks on security forces. "Let us renew the fighting for another 50 years. It's what you want," Duterte was quoted as saying by the Rappler, a Philippines based news agency...

Doha 21 July 2017 (AlJazeera News) The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has said that his country is ready for dialogue to resolve a diplomatic crisis with a Saudi-led group, but stressed that any solution to the crisis must respect his country's sovereignty. "We are open to dialogue to resolve the...

Doha 16 July 2017 (Gulf Times) Qatar will build a QR1.6bn food storage and processing facility at Hamad Port capable of supplying stockpile for three main commodities – rice, sugar, and edible oils, for 3mn people for two and a half years, it was announced on Sunday. Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed...

Beijing 12 July 2017 (Xinhua) A large part of China is sweltering in intolerable heat as temperatures in central and eastern regions have soared to 40 degrees Celsius. Not only humans are suffering, so are the animals. With its mouth wide open, a rhino at the Beijing Zoo greedily enjoyed a spray of water. Not...