CAIRO- The family of an Al-Jazeera journalist detained in Egypt for nearly eight months called for his immediate release Tuesday, saying his health has deteriorated during a hunger strike. Abdullah...
LONDON, James Pheby- Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday welcomed the Irish president to Britain for the first time since the republic became independent with a banquet, controversially attended by former...
CAIRO- An Egyptian appeals court on Monday upheld three-year prison sentences for three prominent activists charged with violating a controversial law restricting protests. The three, including the...
BERLIN- A message in a bottle tossed in the sea in Germany 101 years ago, believed to be the world's oldest, has been presented to the sender's granddaughter, a museum said Monday. A fisherman pulled...
DAMASCUS- At least 29 rebels died in a blast Sunday in the central Syrian city of Homs as they primed a car bomb for an attack, a monitoring group said. In the capital, meanwhile, two people were...
CAIRO- The brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri will stand trial in Egypt along with 67 others on charges of forming a "terrorist group", state media reported on Sunday. Mohamed al-Zawahiri...
BEIRUT- A senior member of an Alawite party in Lebanon's restive northern city of Tripoli was charged Saturday with being part of an "armed terrorist group," a judicial source said. Rifaat Eid, the...
CAIRO- A court in Egypt has adjourned the murder trial of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi until Sunday, when it will hear "decisive" testimony from senior security officials. The case is...
BEIRUT- Regime tanks and warplanes pounded besieged Mleiha east of Damascus on Friday, pressing a campaign to take control of the opposition-held town, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said....
CAIRO- Egypt has barred entry to a Lebanese activist who wanted to deliver a petition against a court's death sentences for 529 alleged rioters, an official with the activist's group said Friday....
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