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Iran to issue verdicts in trial over storming of Saudi embassy

Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency says verdicts are to be handed down in 10 days for suspects on trial over the storming of Saudi...

Saudi conglomerate Binladin avoids financial crisis

Saudi Binladin Group, the kingdom's biggest construction conglomerate, appears to have pulled back from the brink of a financial crisis that risked damaging the...

49,000 children dying of malnutrition linked to Boko Haram

The U.N. children's agency warns that some 49,000 children will die of malnutrition in areas once cut off by northeastern Nigeria's Islamic extremist uprising...

Nintendo worth more than Sony after Pokemon Go release

Nintendo on Tuesday shot past Sony in market value after the videogame giant's stock more than doubled since the release of the wildly popular...

Erdogan vows to build barracks in central Istanbul after failed coup

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Tuesday to revive plans for an Istanbul park that sparked anti-government protests in 2013, saying a failed coup...

Oil prices down as Turkey fears ease

Oil prices extended their decline in Asia Tuesday as the global glut returned to focus, while worries about the effects of Turkey's coup on...

Bahrain slams British and U.S. interference in internal affairs

Bahrain on Monday dismissed as "unacceptable interference" U.S. and British criticism of its decision to dissolve the main Shi'ite Muslim opposition party, as senior...

Professional workers leaving Qatar after layoffs

Five years ago Samer Habib left the United Arab Emirates and moved to Qatar where he opened a restaurant that turned a profit serving...

Suicide bombers attack Yemeni army checkpoints, 10 killed

Two suicide bombers tried to ram vehicles laden with explosives through two Yemeni military checkpoints near the government-held port city of Mukalla on Monday,...

Suspects in Saudi embassy attack appear in Tehran court

Nine people accused of storming Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran in January appeared in a Tehran court on Monday, Fars news agency reported, weeks...

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