Government And Politics
Iran denies being involved in attack on Salman Rushdie
An Iranian government official is denying that Tehran was involved in the assault on author Salman Rushdie
Nasser Kanaani
Iraqi judiciary says it has no powers to dissolve parliament
Iraq’s top judicial body says it doesn't have the authority to dissolve the country’s parliament
High oil prices help Saudi Aramco earn $88B in first half
Saudi oil company Aramco’s half-year profits peaked just shy of $88 billion as oil prices remain high globally
Yair Lapid, Naftali Bennett
Egypt appoints 13 new ministers in Cabinet reshuffle
President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt has announced a Cabinet reshuffle to improve his administration's performance as it faces towering economic challenges stemming largely from Russia’s war in Ukraine
Vehicle accident in southern Egypt kills 9, injures 18
Egyptian authorities say a vehicle accident in the southern province of Minya killed at least nine people and injured 18
Praise, worry in Iran after Rushdie attack; government quiet
Iranians are reacting with praise and worry over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie — the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death
Protests in northern Syria slam Turkish minister's remarks
Hundreds of Syrian opposition supporters have rallied in several locations in northwestern Syria to denounce remarks by Turkey’s foreign minister urging them to reconcile with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government
Cyprus protests meeting of Azerbaijan, Turkish Cypriot heads
The foreign ministry of Cyprus says it’s lodging formal protests against a meeting between the leader of the ethnically split island nation’s breakaway Turkish Cypriots and the president of Azerbaijan amid concerns of a stepped-up partition campaign