WASHINGTON- Former US president George W. Bush said in memoirs out Tuesday that he wished he'd caught one of the shoes an Iraqi television journalist hurled at him during his final official visit to...

WASHINGTON, Patrick Baert- George W. Bush, all but invisible since he left the White House nearly two years ago, reclaims the spotlight Tuesday with the release of his book "Decision Points," in...

CAIRO- Egypt's intelligence chief and foreign minister are to travel to Washington on Tuesday for talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the floundering Middle East peace process, the...

BAGHDAD- Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's uncharismatic but tough-talking prime minister and former rebel, has won a second chance at the premiership eight months after inconclusive elections. After a...

RIYADH- Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini on Saturday urged Israel to reinstate a moratorium on settlement building in the West Bank until a final peace deal is reached with the Palestinians....

GENEVA, Peter Capella- The United States weathered a barrage of calls to probe torture allegations and shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention centre Friday, in its first examination by the UN's top...

RAMALLAH- An Arab League meeting to review stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace talks is likely to be delayed until the end of November, senior Palestinian officials said on Friday. Palestinian...

JERUSALEM- Israel has allowed the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to take four automatic weapons into the Gaza Strip to provide protection for its local chief John Ging, officials said on Friday....

JEDDAH, Paul Handley - Growing Islamophobia echoes the rise of anti-Semitism in the 1930s with US leaders resisting it but Europeans abetting the trend for political gain, the head of the world's...