JERUSALEM, Hazel Ward- A grainy video of a male Israeli soldier bellydancing around a bound and blindfolded female prisoner which went viral overnight, on Tuesday provoked a furious response from the...
BEIRUT, Rita Daou- Lebanon is facing a full-blown crisis as tensions over a UN-probe into the murder of its ex-premier mount with Syria, and a standoff between rival parties escalates, analysts...
DAMASCUS- The authorities in Syria are accusing a schoolgirl blogger held incommunicado for the past nine months of spying for the American embassy in Egypt, Al-Watan newspaper reported on Monday....
STOCKHOLM, Nina Larson- IVF pioneer Bob Edwards, who brought the joy of parenthood to millions of infertile couples, won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday, more than three decades after the...
PARIS- Microcephaly, a disorder which leads to an abnormally small brain, has been traced in part to a flaw in a gene called WDR62 that plays a key role in the development of neurons, according to...
WASHINGTON- The United States is considering issuing as early as Sunday an alert advising Americans traveling to Europe to be vigilant, a US official said after intelligence suggested an Al-Qaeda...
TEHRAN, Jay Deshmukh- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in Tehran on Saturday that direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks were aimed only at bolstering support for President Barack Obama inside...
RAMALLAH, Hossam Ezzedine and Nasser Abu Bakr - The Palestinian leadership on Saturday said there would be no further peace talks with Israel as long as it continued settlement construction in the...
RABAT- A Moroccan Arab-language weekly has gone bankrupt and been forced to close, its publisher said Saturday, blaming "the highest circles of power" for organising a boycott of advertisers....
BREST- Rights campaigners have condemned a French court for handing down Friday a three-month jail term to a teenager who insulted France's paramilitary gendarmes on his Facebook page.
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