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The Ayatollah's appearance on TV before the surgery and announcement of the news by himself is a clear change of approach. Either he knows that the critical situation in Iran and the region cannot bear another rumour of his death, or he has decided to be more open about his personal life, our reporter adds.
Saudi Arabia's top cleric has urged Muslims to confront the "oppressive" Islamic State militant group if it fights Muslims after seizing swathes of Iraq and Syria, media reports said Sunday (Sep 7).
Sunni tribes joined forces with Iraq's Shiite-dominated military, backed by U.S. airstrikes, in a coordinated assault on insurgents, an operation hailed by Iraqi politicians as a model for the cooperation needed to defeat Sunni extremists. The Sunni tribes had been fighting Islamic State militants for months around the town of Haditha, where a strategic dam is located. But they only succeeding in beating back the fighters...
The Bank (2012) now estimates the total size of the Saudi economy at $1,462 billion, yet as recently as 2010—if the data table posted to the left is accurate—it had assessed it instead at a mere $593 billion. As of 2013, both the IMF and the CIA provide figures that are closer to the World Bank’s earlier estimation than to its current figure ($937 billion US and $928 billion respectively).
Plans to resume talks come as the parties seek to reach a comprehensive Iran nuclear accord by the extended deadline of Nov. 24, after failure to reach a deal in July. While the talks in New York are expected to convene at the political director level, foreign ministers from the P5+1 and Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif are also expected to meet together in New York during the UNGA events, officials said.
The Mosul dam, a vital asset, has been wrested back from IS control. In Amerli, a small town where residents held out against an IS onslaught for weeks on end, the siege has been broken. In both instances, Iraqi forces—regular and irregular—were backed by American air support. And now, Iraqi soldiers are advancing on Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s hometown, where IS has for several weeks seemed solidly entrenched. Caution is appropriate, caveats necessary—and I will come to those. But small as they may appear, these victories are of vital importance, for several reasons.
Yemen's president has dismissed his government and promised to review fuel subsidy cuts in a bid to end a stand-off with Zaidi Shia rebels. Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi would name a new prime minister to form a national unity administration, state media reported. However, the initiative was rejected by the rebels, who are known as Houthis.
Oil and gas is very important for Saudi Arabia and now we are simply burning it to cool our homes and buildings and we subsidize many strategic commodities such as electricity, fuel at the pump and the highly expensive desalinated water. In Norway, they pay ten times what we pay at the gas pump. At the end, Saudi energy experts, please read my lips. Look at Norway and do it their way. Oil will not be here forever and we have future generations to look after.
An appeals court in Saudi Arabia has upheld the conviction of a human rights activist for "insulting Islam", ordering him to be jailed for 10 years and be lashed 1,000 times.
