TUNIS- The exiled leader of Hamas denied Friday that the Islamist movement was running a "shadow government" in Gaza as charged by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. Khaled Meshaal was speaking in...

GENEVA, Nina Larson- The worst-ever Ebola outbreak has killed more than 2,400 people, the UN said Friday, as Cuba pledged the largest foreign medical team deployed so far in the west African health...

VIENNA- Transvestite Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst will perform in front of the European Parliament building in Brussels on October 8, the bearded Austrian sensation said Thursday. European...

GOLAN HEIGHTS, Jalaa Marey- Al-Qaeda linked rebels in Syria on Thursday released a group of 45 Fijian UN peacekeepers they kidnapped two weeks ago in the Golan Heights, a UN spokesman said. The...

TEL AVIV- Israel's army has launched five criminal investigations into incidents involving its forces during the Gaza war, a top legal official said on Wednesday, two weeks after a truce took hold....

WASHINGTON- The White House will hold a summit on preventing violent extremism, the US Secretary of Homeland Security said Wednesday, warning that terrorists must "be engaged." The US continues "to...

RAMALLAH- The United Nations and the Palestinian government called Tuesday for international donors to provide $550 million in aid to help hundreds of thousands of Gazans affected by a devastating...

BEIRUT- An attack on a meeting of a Syrian rebel chiefs in the north of the war-ravaged country Tuesday killed at least 28 leaders from one group, a monitor said. "Twenty-eight heads of the Ahrar...

BAGHDAD, Ammar Karim- Iraqi MPs approved a new cabinet on Monday but key security posts remained unfilled, as America's top diplomat prepared to visit the region to build a coalition against...