DUBAI- Bahrain on Monday announced a high-ranging "national dialogue" opening on July 2, although the largest Shiite opposition bloc said it has not yet decided whether to take part.
"The National...
PARIS- An experimental vaccine to prevent progression of Type 1 diabetes failed at the second step of the three-phase trial process, doctors said on Monday in a study reported online by The Lancet....
ATHENS, Helene Colliopoulou- Hundreds of activists are preparing to board aid ships bound for Gaza this week in defiance of an Israeli blockade and UN warnings and in spite of the violent end to an...
CAIRO- Egypt must "scrap" the most reviled laws of former president Hosni Mubarak's era if it wants to ensure free and fair parliamentary elections in September, Amnesty International said on...
UNITED NATIONS- The UN Security Council on Friday expressed grave concern over worsening violence in Yemen and called for new efforts to reach a political settlement.
At least five more people...
LOS ANGELES, Michael Thurston- Peter Falk, the gravel-voiced US actor who played rumpled TV detective Columbo, has died aged 83, his family said Friday.
Falk, whose portrayal of the disheveled,...
KUWAIT CITY, Omar Hasan - Kuwait's premier on Thursday comfortably survived a parliament vote of confidence but the opposition called on him to step down and filed a new motion to grill him, plunging...
BERLIN- Israeli-Argentine conductor Daniel Barenboim will accept a knighthood from the British ambassador to Berlin Thursday for his work toward reconciliation in the Middle East through music, the...
LONDON- British police investigating phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid newspaper arrested a 39-year-old woman on Thursday.
The woman was detained at a residential address in West...
KHIRBET AL-JOUS, Syria — By Gul Tuysuz,- A group of men have committed themselves to an unlikely way of challenging the violence that has swept Syria in recent months, pledging to marry women they...
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