UNITED NATIONS, Tim Witcher- UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan told the UN Security Council on Tuesday his Syria peace plan may be the "last chance" to avoid civil war as the government pursues attacks...
The election went ahead despite the unrest that has swept Syria since March 2011 when President Bashar al-Assad resorted to force in a bid to quash a revolt against his autocratic regime. The United...
CAIRO- Bedouin tribesmen in the Sinai peninsula on Monday briefly detained 10 Fijians from the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO), which is charged with monitoring peace between Egypt and...
PARIS, Rory Mulholland- Taking over from a supermodel should not be a problem for Valerie Trierweiler, who has plenty of glamour of her own, but making state visits abroad as France's first unmarried...
PARIS, Deborah Pasmentier and Charles Onians- Jubilant left-wingers on Sunday thronged the Bastille, a Paris square synonymous with the French Revolution, to celebrate the triumph of France's first...
DAMASCUS- Syria's authorities and the opposition traded accusations Sunday over who was behind blasts that rocked Damascus and Aleppo, on the eve of parliamentary polls designed to boost the regime's...
TRIPOLI- The chief of Libya's election commission said on Sunday that 330,000 people have so far registered as voters to elect the nation's first constituent assembly in June. "The number of voters...
CAIRO, Jailan Zayan- Egypt's military on Saturday ordered 300 people detained after deadly clashes between troops and anti-army protesters in Cairo and imposed a new curfew, as tensions spiral ahead...
"It isn't an Arab Spring which is sweeping the region but a plague, and there is confirmation of this everyday," he said, citing "the colonisation of Iraq, the destruction of Libya, the partition of...
It was the first time in two years the West Bank city's Fatah rulers had allowed the rival Palestinian faction to stage a demonstration. And in east Jerusalem, 300 Palestinians marched from the gates...
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