GCC Secretary-General Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani speaks at the news briefing during the Gulf Cooperation Council summit (GCC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 10, 2011. The GCC held the meeting to discuss the current situation in the Middle East and Gulf region on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Wang Bo) RIYADH, May 10 (Xinhua) — The 13th consultative [...]

NATO on Tuesday denied allegations that its naval vessels failed to help a drifting boat with Libyan migrants aboard, leaving 61 of them dead. “NATO has reviewed all relevant information available…We can find no evidence whatsoever of any NATO ships been involved in this tragic incidence reported by the Guardian,” NATO deputy spokeswoman Carmen Romero [...]

- A senior Syrian official said the seven-week turmoil in the country was drawing to a close, while fresh protests and violence hit unrest-weary Yemen Tuesday. Syrian Presidential Advisor Buthaina Shaaban, during an interview with The New York Times published Tuesday, said her country had weathered through the worst stage of the turmoil, saying it [...]