The pound sterling declined Saturday slightly against the US dollar at 1.309 after it had reached $1.31 in yesterday’s session. According to British financial reports, the sterling fell against the euro to 1.164. Source: Jordan News Agency

ENEMY BOMBARDS LABOUNEH OUTSKIRTS

The outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Labouneh are currently being subjected to hostile bombardment, our reporter said on Monday.

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon

An official source close to the office of the supreme religious authority, Sayyid Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, revealed that an official in the office communicated today with Patriarch Mar Louis Sacco, head of the Chaldean Church in Iraq and the world, and…

The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, stressed the need to redouble efforts to ensure that the conflict in Sudan does not turn into an endless civil war with dire consequences for the region.In a stateme…

Kuwait’s athlete Issa Al-Zankawi won Saturday a silver medal at the Asian Athletics Championship currently held in the Thai capital of Bangkok, raising his country’s record to two medals.Secretary of the Kuwait Athletics Federation (KAF) Hussein Al-Das…

The Diyala Police Command carried out judicial arrest warrants against / 123 / wanted persons during the past three days.Colonel Haitham Al-Shammari, the media spokesman for the Diyala Police Command, told the correspondent of the National Iraqi News A…

Algerian authorities said Saturday that they had allowed a Saudi aircraft to land at Algiers International Airport in order to get medical help to a very sick Moroccan passenger.The Algerian Health Ministry said, in a press release, that the country’s …