JERUSALEM, Gavin Rabinowitz- Israel on Monday welcomed a return to indirect peace talks as a US Middle East envoy arrived and the Palestinians called for a meeting of the Mideast Quartet in a bid to...
KUWAIT CITY- Kuwaiti authorities have closed the office of the Qatar-based pan-Arab Al-Jazeera news channel over coverage of a police crackdown on a public gathering, the channel said on Monday....
NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith- Hollywood A-listers including Clint Eastwood joined grizzled US military veterans Monday to promote what they called the near-miraculous powers of meditation in overcoming...
CAIRO, Hala Boncompagni- Winds, rain, sandstorms and hail battered the southern and eastern Mediterranean on Sunday, killing at least five people, closing ports and disrupting traffic in the Suez...
RAMALLAH, Nasser Abu Bakr- Palestinian officials expressed doubt and frustration on Sunday about the future of peace talks after the United States failed to secure a new settlement freeze.
In a...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Andrew Gully- Sarah Palin toured Haiti Sunday amid post-election unrest, comforting quake and cholera victims and gaining humanitarian kudos as she geared up for a possible White...
DUBAI- Diabetes is costing the United States up to 160 billion dollars per year and might affect one-third of Americans by the middle of the century, former US President Bill Clinton said Sunday in...
STOCKHOLM- Two almost simultaneous explosions went off in downtown Stockholm Saturday, killing one person and injuring two others, police and emergency services said.
The Swedish news agency TT...
CAIRO- Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Saturday that US diplomatic cables published by whistle-blower WikiLeaks were just the "tip of the iceberg" and showed Egypt had nothing to hide....
ROME- An Italian hospital director sent a memo to doctors and nurses asking them not to snort cocaine while on duty, the ANSA news agency reported Saturday.
Giuseppe Di Maria now faces possible...