Iraq’s supreme court on Thursday ordered a manual recount of last month’s legislative elections. The court found that the decision by parliament to order a manual recount in response to allegations of electoral fraud did not violate the constitution, its president Medhat al-Mahmud told a news conference. All of the ...
Bahraini authorities acknowledged on Thursday spying charges against prominent opposition figure, Sheikh Ali Salman, were false. A court in the Gulf state acquitted the Secretary General of Al-Wefaq opposition group of all charges in his trial for alleged spying for regional rival Qatar, activists said. “Sheikh Ali Salman was found ...
