30 July 2010 Iraqi Minister of Science and Technology Raed Fahmi was injured on Friday in a road accident in Jordan which killed six people including two British women, police said.
30 July 2010 Gaza militants fired a rocket into the Israeli city of Ashkelon early Friday, the military said, a rare strike in a period of relative quiet.
30 July 2010 The Arab League has declined to endorse an immediate resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, saying it needs further guarantees from the United States before approving talks.
30 July 2010 A suspected explosion that damaged a Japanese oil tanker in the Straits of Hormuz, between Iran and Oman, could have been caused by an "attack", the ship's owners have said.
29 July 2010 Australia Thursday tightened its sanctions on Iran in a fresh bid to convince Tehran to allay international concerns over its nuclear drive.
1 July 2010 A meeting is scheduled for 2:00 pm Thursday between Prime Minister Saad Hariri and a delegation from public school secondary teachers in a final attempt to end the weeks-long stalemate that left the future of Grade 12 students unsettled.Meanwhile, Grade 9 examination results for Beirut and Mount Lebanon will begin to surface as of midday Thursday.
1 July 2010 Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat believes that the arrest of networks spying for the Israeli Mossad puts "everyone" in the danger of assassinations, As Safir daily reported.Jumblat told the newspaper that officials should confront the Israeli danger through cooperation between all parties and security forces "to defuse the human grenades."
1 July 2010 Defense Minister Elias Murr expressed regret at the spread by media outlets of alleged false information about Charbel Qazzi, an employee at mobile phone operator Alfa, who has been arrested for collaborating with the Israeli Mossad.
Murr did not blame the news organizations for writing or broadcasting stories about the suspect.
1 July 2010 The cabinet stressed Wednesday the need to speed up investigations into Israeli spy networks rejecting rumors that it had approved death sentences against collaborators with the Mossad.
Information Minister Tareq Mitri said after the session at the Grand Serail.
1 July 2010 UNIFIL ended patrols that had drawn protests from residents of several southern towns and villages as the U.N. stressed that the Lebanese army was "fully informed" about them and said the activities were conducted to ensure the readiness of peacekeepers on the ground.
1 July 2010 The United Nations and Washington have denied they had received information about an Israeli decision to withdraw from the Lebanese part of the border village of Ghajar."Obviously we are aware of the latest media reports, but as far as the situation in Ghajar is concerned, as you know.
