CAIRO- A top security official said on Monday Egypt has cracked down on tunnels to Gaza and intercepted explosives destined for the enclave, a day after an Israeli official criticised its...

MADRID- A Mediterranean Union summit planned for November 21 in Barcelona has been postponed again because the Middle East peace talks are "deadlocked", the Spanish government said Monday. "Given...

BEIRUT, Rana Moussaoui- Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has vowed not to give in to "threats" in a television interview, after his Hezbollah rivals ramped up rhetoric against a UN-backed probe...

TEL AVIV, Philippe Agret- Egypt is not doing enough to stop arms smuggling into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, a senior Israeli intelligence official said on Sunday, in a rare criticism of Cairo....

WASHINGTON, Patrick Baert- For Philippe Auguin, who has just been named almost simultaneously as music director of both the Washington and Nice operas, distance is no object as there are no national...

YANGON- Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is set to rally her many supporters Sunday with a rare political address on her first full day of freedom after release from years of house...

JERUSALEM- Israel's cabinet will on Sunday discuss a US proposition to impose a new settlement freeze in the occupied West Bank for 90 days, but the proposal does not include East Jerusalem, a source...

AIN AL-HELWEH, Jocelyne Zablit- Mussa al-Hussein may have a hard time recalling dates and places, but the 86-year-old Palestinian does not miss a beat when asked for his ID number when he was in the...

BAGHDAD, Salam Faraj- Iraqi lawmakers appeared on Saturday to have salvaged a power-sharing deal that gives Nuri al-Maliki a second term as premier, days after a dramatic walk-out from parliament by...