RAFAH- Egypt banned hundreds of activists from Gaza, igniting protests at the Rafah border that is the only non-Israeli entry into the Palestinian enclave, a security official said on Saturday....

BERLIN- Polish authorities have arrested, at Germany's request, a suspected Mossad agent thought to have played a role in the Dubai assassination of a Hamas commander, German prosecutors said on...

BAGHDAD, Prashant Rao - Iraq will on Monday finally open its second parliament since the US-led ouster of Saddam Hussein in 2003, bolstering its nascent democracy three months after polls failed to...

ROME- An Italian priest has been suspended after being secretly filmed by a TV programme allegedly making homosexual advances to a young actor, the ANSA news agency reported Saturday. A young...

CAIRO, Christophe de Roquefeuil- "They want to empty Egypt of Copts," exclaims Girgis Guebrail about a court order that the Coptic church must remarry divorcees, seeing it as an attack on minority...

PARIS- Two investors on Friday made formal offers to acquire a majority stake in France's Le Monde, said the ailing newspaper which needs new capital to pay off its 100-million-euro...

TOKYO- Japan said Friday its kite-shaped "space yacht", designed to float through space using only the power of the sun, successfully started sailing with solar power generation. A Japanese rocket...

WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the world to support the Iranian people in their fight for "freedom," one year after disputed elections triggered major demonstrations....

WASHINGTON- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will hold separate meetings Friday with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Jordanian King Abdullah, her spokesman said. State Department...