RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas appealed on Sunday for an immediate halt to firing on Palestinian refugee camps in Syria, after air strikes on the Yarmuk camp in...
CAIRO, Ines Bel Aiba- Egyptians were voting on Saturday in a two-round referendum on a new constitution supported by the ruling Islamists but bitterly contested by a secular-leaning opposition that...
DUBLIN, Conor Barrins- Ireland's tough abortion laws came under fire on Wednesday following the death of an Indian woman after doctors allegedly refused her a termination because it was against the...
DAMASCUS- NATO's deployment of Patriot missiles on Turkey's restive border with Syria is a prelude to military intervention in the country to help "terrorist groups," a pro-regime newspaper reported...
TRIPOLI- The trial of Moamer Kadhafi's last prime minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, accused of aiding the state to kill civilians and financial crimes, opened in a Libyan court on Monday. A judge read...
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories- Exiled Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal left the Gaza Strip on Monday after a historic and jubilant first visit to the tiny Palestinian enclave that enraged Israelis....
CAIRO, Marc Burleigh- Egypt was bracing for rival protests to take place in Cairo on Tuesday over a bitterly divisive referendum on a new constitution, prompting President Mohamed Morsi to order the...
DUBAI- A Bahraini court on Monday sentenced the daughter of prominent opposition activist Hadi al-Khawaja to one month in jail for taking part in an unauthorised demonstration, her lawyer said....
BORDEAUX- A French teacher who has been accused of asking her students to write an essay in which they imagined themselves as a suicidal teenager has been suspended pending an investigation,...
SHEIKH SULEIMAN BASE, Syria, Herve Bar- Radical Islamist rebels on Sunday seized large swathes of a Syrian military base west of Aleppo, as they consolidated their control over territory in the north...
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