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Israel's parliament passed a law capping the annual salaries of bank executives at $658,000, among the world's toughest such restrictions.

• 29 марта 2016, 15:56

Six children have been killed or maimed daily in Yemen since Saudi-led air strikes began a year ago, the UN said Tuesday, warning the conflict was taking a horrifying toll on the country's youth.

• 29 марта 2016, 15:37

A hijacker seized an Egyptian airliner and diverted it to Cyprus, before releasing all the passengers except four foreigners and the crew.

• 29 марта 2016, 14:56

Israel advised its citizens to leave Turkey citing the potential for jihadist attacks.

• 28 марта 2016, 16:54

Qatar's state-funded broadcaster Al-Jazeera announced a fresh round of job cuts with around 500 positions being lost.

• 28 марта 2016, 14:45

Israel's top court on Sunday struck down a landmark deal regulating exploitation of Mediterranean gas reserves, in a major defeat for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

• 28 марта 2016, 14:14

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia's President Vladimir Putin agreed to intensify the drive for a political settlement in Syria but remained divided over Bashar al-Assad's future.

• 25 марта 2016, 16:17

Russia has begun to withdraw military equipment from Syria, the defence ministry said Tuesday.

• 15 марта 2016, 17:21

British leader David Cameron got "distracted" and French President Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to promote his country during the 2011 military intervention in Libya, US President Barack Obama said.

• 11 марта 2016, 14:00

The United States urges governments to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions from the collapse of Iraq's Mosul dam.

• 10 марта 2016, 14:45

Iran fired two more long-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday as it continued military tests in defiance of US sanctions and fresh warnings from Washington.

• 09 марта 2016, 20:08

Emirates Airline, which was to launch what it called the world's longest non-stop flight this month, postponed those plans for a year.

• 03 марта 2016, 17:37

Qatar's population has reached 2.5 million people, swollen by the huge numbers of foreign workers employed in the tiny Gulf emirate.

• 03 марта 2016, 00:27

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he had sealed a pact with the country's oil majors to freeze production.

• 03 марта 2016, 00:17

The Israeli army is to return West Bank land it requisitioned nearly 40 years ago to its Palestinian owners.

• 02 марта 2016, 23:44

EU president Donald Tusk defended the use of barbed-wire fences against migrants.

• 02 марта 2016, 23:37

India’s government pledged billions of dollars to help struggling farmers and boost the rural economy as it unveiled its annual budget.

• 29 февраля 2016, 16:00

Syria's brutal five-year war has turned increasingly messy tangle of internal and external players with their own multi-faceted agendas.

• 17 февраля 2016, 16:41

Pakistan asks Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond more than 150 years after it was taken from Lahore.

• 10 февраля 2016, 18:41

13 million pupils in OECD countries fail to attain a sufficient level of proficiency in either reading, maths or science by the age of 15.

• 10 февраля 2016, 15:34