RIYADH, July 4, (APP/AFP) – The Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan will start on Wednesday in Gulf states and Yemen, religious authorities in both countries announced. The crescent moon which marks the new lunar month was not sighted on Monday night, and Tuesday would therefore be […]
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Gulf states, Yemen to mark end of Ramadan from Wednesday
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Suicide blast outside Prophet’s Mosque in Medina: Saudi media
RIYADH, July 4, (APP/AFP) – A suicide blast struck Monday in Saudi Arabia outside one of Islam’s holiest sites, the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, a Saudi-owned television channel reported. Al-Arabiya news channel showed images of fire raging in a parking lot with at least one body nearby. The explosion occurred in a security forces parking […]
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Iran condemns suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia
TEHRAN, July 5, (APP/AFP) – Iran on Tuesday condemned three suicide bombings that rocked Saudi Arabia, one of them targeting Islam’s second holiest place, the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina. “There are no more red lines left for terrorists to cross. Sunnis, Shiites will both remain victims unless we stand united as one,” Foreign Minister Mohammad […]
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EU says British cut-tax plan not a good idea
PARIS, July 5, (APP/AFP) – The European Union’s top economic official on Tuesday criticised a British proposal to slash corporate tax to less than 15 percent following the nation’s vote to abandon the bloc. “Going to 15 percent does not seem to me to be a good initiative,”the EU’s economic affairs commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, told […]
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Sri Lanka’s new central bank chief to ‘uphold credibility’
COLOMBO, (APP/AFP) – The new head of Sri Lanka’s central bank Indrajit Coomaraswamy pledged Monday to uphold its credibility after allegations of insider dealing that forced his predecessor to leave. Sri Lanka’s president bowed to pressure to replace Arjuna Mahendran after he was accused of leaking information to his son-in-law’s firm, which allegedly made millions […]
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EU’s Oettinger says Portugal, Spain should be fined over deficits
FRANKFURT, (APP/AFP) – Germany’s EU Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said in a newspaper interview Monday that Spain and Portugal should be fined by Brussels for missing their 2015 deficit targets. “Neither country met the budget commitments that they had both set themselves,” Oettinger told the mass-circulation daily Bild. “I believe that if the EU Commission is […]