JOHANNESBURG- Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday thanked people who supported him after an online petition accused him of "demonising Israel" when he urged the Cape Town Opera to abandon a trip to...

WASHINGTON, Dan De Luce- The man named by President Hosni Mubarak as his first ever deputy, Egyptian spy chief Omar Suleiman, reportedly orchestrated the brutal interrogation of terror suspects...

BAGHDAD, Sammy Ketz- Behind the uprisings that began in Tunisia and spread to Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East is Arab anger at absolute regimes which ruled their states as personal domains,...

WASHINGTON- The Middle East is diseased with stagnation and its leaders must "upgrade" themselves and their societies to keep up with the demands of their people, Syrian President Bashir al-Assad...

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- Top dissident Mohamed ElBaradei told a sea of angry protesters in Cairo on Sunday that they were beginning a new era after six days of a deadly revolt against embattled...

WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael- The upheaval in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East and North Africa, driven by forces largely beyond US control, have starkly exposed Washington's weakness...

MONTREAL- Canada is pleased that a new government has been formed in Tunisia, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Saturday. "Canada is encouraged by reports that the country is...

BEIRUT- Ousted prime minister Saad Hariri said on Saturday that "enormous" pressure from outside Lebanon was to blame for the collapse of his government earlier this month. The aim was to "change...

WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- US President Barack Obama Friday called on Egyptian authorities not to use violence against raging political protests, and drove home his message in a 30-minute phone...