JERUSALEM- Rights groups here on Sunday lambasted an Israeli probe that concluded the Jewish state's troops acted lawfully during a bloody May 2010 raid on Gaza-bound aid ships.
The six-man panel...
MONTREAL- Relatives of Tunisia's ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali have arrived in Canada, a government official in Ottawa told AFP on Saturday.
The official confirmed, without offering...
AMMAN- French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie urged a resumption of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, saying peace in the Middle East is "indispensable."
"What is possible today might me...
WASHINGTON- US Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that Iraq and its political institutions had at least an "even chance" of emerging from recent political turmoil in very good shape.
But Biden...
WASHINGTON- The United States voiced doubt Friday that the popular revolt that toppled Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali would spread to other Arab countries, even though they share similar...
BEIRUT, Jocelyne Zablit- Druze leader Walid Jumblatt threw his weight behind Hezbollah on Friday, becoming a potential kingmaker in Lebanon's political crisis by giving the group an edge in deciding...
TUNIS, Najeh Mouelhi- Tunisia's caretaker administration approved a general amnesty at its first meeting Thursday and declared three days of national mourning for victims of unrest that toppled the...
CAIRO- Al-Azhar, the chief centre of Sunni Muslim learning, suspended on Thursday its ties with the Vatican, accusing the pope of attacking Islam, but the Holy See says it wants to continue its...
TUNIS, Dario Thuburn- Tunisia's interim president on Wednesday promised a "total break" with the past and hailed "a revolution of dignity and liberty," as prosecutors opened a vast inquiry against...
JUBA, Guillaume Lavallee- South Sudan achieved the simple majority needed to secede in its independence referendum, preliminary results collated by AFP showed on Wednesday, even with many counties...
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