PARIS- French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday the Syrian people "have the right to democracy too" following a meeting with a leader of the Libyan rebel movement that toppled Moamer Kadhafi's...
UNITED NATIONS- France, Britain, Germany and Portugal on Tuesday proposed UN sanctions against Syria that target President Bashar al-Assad over his crackdown on opposition protests, diplomats said....
JERUSALEM, Philippe Agret- An Egyptian-brokered halt to Palestinian rocket fire from the Gaza Strip appeared to be holding on Tuesday, with the Israeli military saying that calm had prevailed along...
DAMASCUS- The UN rights body Monday urged Syria to halt a deadly crackdown on dissent that has cost more than 2,200 lives, after its defiant President Bashar al-Assad scoffed at Western calls to step...
RAMALLAH- The Palestinian Authority has indefinitely postponed local elections which had been expected to take place in October in the West Bank, a minister told AFP on Monday.
"President (Mahmud)...
DAMASCUS- President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday scoffed at Western calls to quit over his deadly crackdown on dissent, as a UN humanitarian team visited Syria and the Red Cross hoped to send a...
LONDON- Britain on Sunday said "the end was near" for Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi as rebel fighters launched a final push for victory with an attack on the capital Tripoli.
"It is clear from the...
BRUSSELS, Roddy Thomson- World powers warned Saturday there is a "risk of escalation" as three days of deadly fighting over Gaza plunged relations between Israel and Egypt to a new low.
The...
BRUSSELS, - Europe's leaders demanded Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down now, decreeing that his regime has lost all legitimacy, and pressing into service new sanctions....
LONDON, August - Alice Ritchie - British Prime Minister David Cameron backed tough sentences for rioters on Wednesday after campaigners expressed concern about two men jailed for four years each for...
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