RAMALLAH (Reuters) -Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas named close confidant Hussein al-Sheikh as his deputy and likely ...

The blast rocked Iran as it began the third round of nuclear talks with the United States in Oman, state media reported.

Sheikh, born in 1960, is a veteran of Fatah, the main PLO faction which was founded by Arafat and is now headed by Abbas.

On Saturday night, the state-run IRNA news agency said that the Customs Administration of Iran blamed a “stockpile of ...