Author: By EDITH M. LEDERER | AP ID: 1568834067838909000 Wed, 2019-09-18 19:01 UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Wednesday that a long-sought agreement has been reached on the composition of a committee to draft a new constitution for … read more
Author: Tue, 2019-09-17 23:38 JERUSALEM: Polls opened at 7 a.m. for the 22nd Israeli Knesset made up of 120 members. A coalition of 61 seats is needed to set up a government. The two biggest parties are the Likud, headed … read more
Tue, 2019-09-17 23:25 JERUSALEM: The Israeli elections have divided Palestinians between those who feel there is little or no difference between the leading Zionist Israeli parties (Likud and Blue and White) and those who insist that the failure of Netanyahu … read more
Tue, 2019-09-17 23:06 JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main challenger Benny Gantz were locked in a tight race in the country’s general election after polls closed on Tuesday, exit surveys showed. Three separate exit polls carried by … read more
Author: Tue, 2019-09-17 22:18 BAGHDAD: As fissures within a powerful paramilitary force go public for the first time and a revolving door of top politicians consults Tehran, Iraq’s fragile political balance is crumbling, analysts say, with worrying consequences for its premier. … read more