AFP, TEHRAN: Iran urged its Gulf Arab neighbours Thursday to reconcile themselves to the international rapprochement that led to its July nuclear agreement with world powers and to halt their hostile propaganda. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Marizeh Afkham said that a joint statement issued by Gulf Arab…

AFP, WASHINGTON: The CIA released an unprecedented trove of previously classified intelligence briefs Wednesday from the height of the Cold War that were provided to presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The collection includes about 2,500 “President’s Daily Briefs” that contain…

AFP, TOKYO: Japanese lawmakers scuffled Thursday as they tried—and failed—to stop the security bill that could see the military fight abroad for the first time in decades. Opposition lawmakers climbed on top of one another as they tried to grab the committee chairman’s microphone to…

AFP, CAIRO: Gunmen have shot dead a police general in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the interior ministry said, in the latest attack claimed by Islamic State group jihadists. Assailants in a car gunned down General Khaled Kamal Osman during an inspection of a police unit in the North Sinai provincial…