ADDIS ABABA- Ethiopia has reassured Egypt that a new pact it signed with four other countries on the sharing of water from the River Nile will not harm Egypt.
Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and...
JAKARTA- US and Indonesian scientists on Thursday launched a joint expedition to map some of the deepest oceanic trenches in the world for clues on biodiversity and volcanic vents, officials said....
DAMASCUS- Syrian rights groups said on Wednesday they were deeply concerned about the fate of a Kurdish activist and blogger who they claim has disappeared since being arrested last month.
"We...
BAGHDAD, Salam Faraj- A suicide bomber wearing an explosives-filled belt targeted Shiite pilgrims and murdered 28 people in Baghdad on Wednesday while 11 more were killed in bomb attacks, security...
WASHINGTON, Steve Weizman- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to the United Nations Wednesday to meet UN chief Ban Ki-moon, saying he could perform miracles to hammer out a peace deal...
RIYADH- Saudi Arabia's Kingdom group controlled by tycoon Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said on Tuesday it would launch a regional 24-hour news channel to be headed by prominent journalist Jamal...
CAIRO- A construction firm bus driver shot dead six workers and wounded six others as he sprayed passengers with gunfire near the Egyptian capital on Tuesday, a senior local official said.
A...
NICOSIA- Pop star Jennifer Lopez will give a concert in the Turkish-held statelet of northern Cyprus later this month, organisers said on Tuesday, amid outrage among Greek Cypriots.
The US diva...
PARIS- French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak discussed Monday ways to relaunch the stalled peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.
"We looked at...
CAIRO- Egyptian academic Nasr Hamed Abu Zeid, who was forced into exile and ordered to divorce his wife after being judged to be an apostate, died on Monday in Cairo, his wife said.
Abu Zeid, 67,...
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