Yemen, Britain, and the United States have discussed preparations for the upcoming London conference on extremism in Yemen. Representatives of 21 countries plan to participate in the January 28 conference, called by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. On Saturday in Sana’a, Yemen’s Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry, Mohi al-Deen al-Dhabi, held separate meetings with US [...]

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit has underlined that the Iranian nuclear issue should be solved through dialogue. According to IRINN on Thursday, the Egyptian official made the remark while traveling to Kuwait along Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Abul Gheit had earlier supported Iran’s nuclear program in an interview with al-Ittihad newspaper in the United [...]

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit says Israel is stalling on a prisoner swap with Hamas by refusing to free certain Palestinian prisoners. “Israel is still placing obstacles toward releasing all those demanded by the Palestinians,” AFP quoted Gheit as saying on Sunday. “We hope that the Israeli side, which decided to move on this [...]

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has arrived in Washington for talks with his US counterpart Barack Obama, to discuss the stalled Arab-Israeli peace deal. In what is his first visit to the United States in five years, Mubarak is expected to focus on Middle East peace, the Iranian nuclear program, Sudan, combating “extremists and promoting reform [...]