ADEN- Six people including four policemen were killed in overnight clashes in Yemen's tense south, where a separate Qaeda-style ambush killed a tribal chief and his two bodyguards, local and tribal...
JERUSALEM- An Israeli rights group on Sunday accused Jerusalem police of failing to protect Palestinians in annexed east Jerusalem from hardline settlers residing in neighbourhoods heavily populated...
CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush - Mohamed ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear chief turned Egyptian reformer, accused the government of publishing pictures of his daughter in a swimsuit and at an event in which...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Andrea Palatnik- General election campaigning in Brazil has taken on a characteristically sexual undertone, with some candidates showing off luscious curves and breathy voices as they...
JERUSALEM, Joseph Krauss- Observers across the Middle East expressed deep pessimism pierced with glimmers of hope on Friday after the launch of yet another round of Israeli-Palestinian talks in a...
AMMAN- Human Rights Watch on Friday called on Jordan to free a student arrested in July and accused of insulting King Abdullah II.
"Jordan’s military prosecutor at the State Security Court should...
WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael- Israeli and Palestinian leaders launched their first direct negotiations in 20 months here Thursday, agreeing to meet every two weeks in a bid to settle core...
GAZA CITY, Sakher Abu El Oun- The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas vowed to press its campaign of deadly attacks on Israelis as a new round of Middle East peace talks was launched in Washington on...
THE HAGUE- The United States should apologise for the wrongful arrest of two Yemenis on Dutch soil after gifts in their luggage gave rise to terror suspicions, Yemen's ambassador to The Hague said...
LOS ANGELES, Romain Raynaldy - French film star Vincent Cassel's bravura portrayal of a murderous mobster seems likely to win him greater fame and critical acclaim here, as US critics lap up his...