UNITED NATIONS- UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday named a queen, a former president, a Nobel Peace prize winner and a corporate mogul to a 26-strong panel to recommend new global social and environment...
WASHINGTON, Jo Biddle- The United States warned the world was sliding backwards on religious freedoms Monday, criticizing violence against Coptic Christians in Egypt and citing European laws banning...
TUNIS- US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday said Washington was ready to help Tunisia develop its capacities to combat Al-Qaeda, and urged closer regional cooperation in fighting the terror...
RABAT- Morocco's King Mohammed VI vowed on Monday to press ahead with reforms, including strengthening the independence of the judiciary and battling corruption, in a speech to mark 13 years on the...
ABOARD A US MILITARY PLANE- US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday that the assault on his own population in Aleppo would be a nail in his coffin....
JERUSALEM, Steve Weizman- White House hopeful Mitt Romney Sunday held top-level talks in Israel over Iran's nuclear ambitions but quickly drew fire from the Palestinians for endorsing Jerusalem as...
TRIPOLI, Dominique Soguel- Libya's General National Congress, which will become the first elected body to rule the oil-rich nation after Moamer Kadhafi's ouster, is due to take power early August, an...
ABU DHABI- The head of the exiled Syrian opposition said on Saturday that President Bashar al-Assad should be tried for "massacres" insisting that he should not be offered asylum in any future...
TRIPOLI, Dominique Soguel- Dozens of Libya's poor are celebrating the country's first free Ramadan since the ouster of Moamer Kadhafi in the shattered remains of the late dictator's infamous Bab...
DUBAI- Saudi security forces opened fire on Shiite protesters in the tense Qatif district of Eastern Province on Friday, wounding several as hundreds marched to demand the release of detainees,...