Arabic region

At least 90 people were killed in violence across Syria on Friday, including 28 people who were killed in twin suicide bombings which ripped through two security facilities in the hitherto relatively peaceful city of Aleppo, dpa reported.

An Egyptian military source on Friday refuted recent media reports that the incumbent government of Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzouri planned to resign, Ahram Online reported.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has discussed development issues bilateral cooperation in the political, trade and economic and investment spheres at a meeting with UAE Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Kazakh presidential press service reported on Friday.

Seven Iranian engineers and one Iranian expert have been freed in Syria.

Eleven people were killed as a result of two blasts in the Syrian city of Aleppo, Al-Jazeera TV channel reported. No report is available about injured people.

Qatar’s RasGas oil and gas company and South-Korean KOGAS company signed an agreement on liquefied gas supplies to South Korea for the term of 20 years, RasGas website reported on Friday.

Libyan authorities expelled the ambassador and all diplomatic staff of the Syrian Embassy in solidarity with the Syrian people, "Al-Jazeera" TV channel said today.

UN official urges Syria to immediately end violations against children

Egypt refused to import 3 batches of grain from last crop from Kazakhstan due to discrepancy in types of imported grain, the department of the Main Office on goods supply of Egypt told Trend on Thursday.

The Somali militant group al-Shabab has formally joined al-Qaida, according to a video translation released Thursday of a message from al-Qaida's leader.