DUBAI, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- China's biggest lender Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) said here Saturday that its Middle Eastearn branch achieved in 2012 a pre-tax profit of 54 million U.S. dollars, up 69 percent year on year, while its to...
Libyan Uprising Boosts Morale in Mideast The apparent victory by rebels in Libya is sending shockwaves throughout the Middle East. An uprising that appeared to be lost is boosting the morale of protesters facing other Arab governments that have respo...
Mark Malloch-Brown has been involved in international affairs for more than three decades. The former journalist-turned-economist served as vice president of the World Bank before being named Deputy Secretary General and U.N. Chief of Staff under Kof...
President Bush has ended his Middle East tour on a positive note, with a show of support for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The leaders spoke after seaside talks in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh....
US envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell met with top Egyptian officials, Thursday, to discuss prospects for resuming Arab-Israeli peace talks. Mitchell conferred with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, as well as Arab League Secretary-...
By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 30 July 2006 Lebanese hold a candlelit vigil in memory of at least 56 people - more than half of then children - who were killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that crushed a building in the southern Lebanese village of Qana...
By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 23 July 2006 Three senior European envoys held talks with Israeli officials ahead of a visit to the region by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. But as diplomacy intensifies to end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah g...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 13 February 2006 Javier Solana Europe's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, is in the Middle East this week to try to calm outrage over cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. M...
By Roger Wilkison The European Union has unveiled a four-point proposal to keep the Middle East "roadmap" on track, despite Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's illness and a deadly suicide bombing Mond...
Peter Heinlein The so-called quartet of peace mediators have reaffirmed their faith in the "Road Map" plan for a settlement of the Israeli Palestinian dispute. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called...