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SAN’A, Yemen - Yemeni government forces have beaten back an advance by northern rebels who brought their fight to within 12 miles of the capital, officials and witnesses said Saturday.

The French foreign minister arrived Saturday in the southern city of Nasiriyah for his second visit to Iraq in less than a year as Paris seeks to rebuild ties with the war-torn nation.

Bernard Kouchner was met by the Shiite vice president and the provincial governor after landing at a U.S. base in the city the morning after the base was hit by a rocket or mortar attack.

Kouchner, Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi and Aziz Kadhim Alwan, the governor of Dhi Qar province that includes Nasiriyah, then toured the nearby ancient ruins of the biblical city of Ur.

For three consecutive seasons tourism revenue, once Lebanon’s lifeblood, was reduced to a trickle by violence and political uncertainty.

The big-screen adaptation of the U.S. television show “Sex and the City” is expected to have a different name when it is released in the United Arab Emirates.

U.S. officials asked U.N. inspectors to expand their search for secret nuclear plants in Syria, hinting Damascus may have a bigger program than once thought.

ABU DHABI: Syrian President Bashar Assad travels to the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait this weekend for talks on regional developments.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and his Jordanian counterpart Salah Bashir sign a nuclear co-operation agreement in Amman yesterday AMMAN: France signed a nuclear co-operation agreement with …

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki STOCKHOLM-Iraq pressed its creditors to cancel about $60 billion in debts at an international conference on Thursday, but two of its biggest creditors, Kuwait and Saudi …

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Affiliates of Global Hyatt Corporation and Alliances Group have announced the signing of a management agreement for Park Hyatt Marrakech .