PARIS- An ancient skull found in Tibet indicates that big cats originated in central Asia, and not Africa as widely thought, palaeontologists reported on Wednesday. Dated at between 4.1 and 5.95...
ISTANBUL- Syria's main opposition grouping said Monday it will attend peace talks on the condition that President Bashar al-Assad transfers power and is excluded from any transition process. In a...
LONDON- The case against a doctor accused of kidnapping a British photographer and his Dutch colleague in Syria last year was dropped at a London court on Monday. Shajul Islam was due to stand trial...
PARIS- Countries and organisations around the world, including the US, the UN and the EU, on Sunday scrambled aid to the Philippines as the devastation wreaked by Super Typhoon Haiyan became clearer....
ABU DHABI, Jo Biddle- Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday briefed US ally the United Arab Emirates on talks with Iran on its nuclear programme and efforts to hold Syria peace talks. He flew in...
TRIPOLI- Prime Minister Ali Zeidan warned Libyans of the possibility of foreign powers intervening unless the country's current chaos ends, in an appeal Sunday aimed at rallying his campaign against...
WASHINGTON, Kerry Sheridan- A decade-long research effort to uncover the environmental causes of breast cancer by studying both lab animals and a group of healthy US girls has turned up some...
BENGHAZI- A string of attacks in eastern Libya has killed a public prosecutor and five members of the security forces in less than 24 hours, judicial and medical sources said Saturday. Since the...
TRIPOLI, Imed Lamloum- The Libyan government condemned Friday as deplorable clashes overnight between militias in Tripoli that killed two people in an ongoing wave of violence that is terrorising...
CAIRO- A child and another person died Friday in clashes between supporters and opponents of Egypt's ousted president in Cairo, state news agency MENA said, as Mohamed Morsi's backers protested in...
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