AFP, BEIRUT: French President Francois Hollande arrived in Lebanon on Saturday at the start of a four-day tour of the Middle East, an AFP journalist said. Hollande was to spend the first two days in Lebanon and then travel on to Egypt and Jordan. In Beirut on Saturday, Hollande was expected to meet…

AFP, BAGHDAD: A group of Iraqi lawmakers said they would not take part in a Saturday parliament session to select a replacement for the speaker, apparently leaving it without the necessary quorum. Iraq was on course to have two rival claimants to the speakership, further increasing chaos in parliament,…

AFP, LONDON: Police in Britain Saturday arrested a man at an airport on suspicion of carrying out “Syria-related terrorism offences,” they said. The 18-year-old man from Birmingham, central England, was held at Manchester airport in northwest England after landing in Britain Saturday morning,…

AFP, AGRA, India: Prince William and his wife Kate arrived at the Taj Mahal Saturday, wrapping up their week-long trip to India and Bhutan with a visit…

AFP, BRUSSELS: Brussels airport will fully re-open in June, its chief executive said, after suffering extensive damage when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the departures hall last month killing 16. “We will be 100 percent operational again in June,” Brussels airport chief executive…

AFP, TEHRAN: The European Union’s top diplomat Federica Mogherini arrived in Tehran on Saturday on her first visit since a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers came into force as tensions surface over its implementation. Mogherini, who was the lead negotiator for the six powers who struck…

AFP, DUBAI: A concerted United Nations effort aimed at ending nearly 13 months of war in Yemen sees peace talks resuming on Monday, but with a ceasefire barely holding. Previous attempts have failed to stop the fighting which has killed thousands of people, forced almost 2.8 million from their homes…