CAIRO- The daughter of late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is suing his former aide over claims the leader poisoned his predecessor Nasser, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday.
Roqaya al-Sadat...
PRAGUE- Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in Prague Monday his plan to push for swapping territories for people in peace talks with Palestinians was his "personal view," not his...
CHICAGO- A Lebanese immigrant was arrested after placing what he believed to be a bomb in a trash bin outside a Chicago nightclub in an alleged plot to overthrow the mayor, officials said Monday....
NEW YORK- Human Rights Watch has called on the Syrian authorities to immediately release a 19-year-old schoolgirl held incommunicado for nine months, apparently over the contents of her blog.
One...
LONDON- A human rights group on Sunday urged the Syrian authorities to release a Kurdish writer and politician who was reportedly detained last week.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human...
BEIRUT- A Lebanese ex-general who spent four years in jail without charges in connection with the assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri said Sunday that ongoing legal action against him was...
JERUSALEM- Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak will pay a five-day visit to the United States from Sunday for talks with top officials, his ministry announced on Saturday.
It said Barak will meet...
CAIRO- Egypt's liberal Wafd party has chosen to take part in upcoming parliamentary elections, its newspaper said on Saturday, ignoring calls from other opposition groups to boycott the poll.
Wafd...
BEIRUT, Jocelyne Zablit - Political tension is mounting in Lebanon as Hezbollah and its allies ratchet up pressure aiming to discredit a UN-backed tribunal expected to implicate the powerful militant...
JERUSALEM, Marius Schattner- Israel reiterated on Friday its refusal to extend curbs on settlement building that expire this month, despite US pressure and Palestinian threats to walk out of peace...
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