NEW YORK- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in comments published Wednesday that Israel must extend a settlement moratorium for negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders to succeed....

HAVANA- Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has acknowledged discrimination against homosexuals during his rule in the 1960s and 70s, decrying the "great injustice" suffered by gays in the...

WASHINGTON, Stephen Collinson- US President Barack Obama Tuesday formally declared an end to America's seven-year combat mission in Iraq, saying it was time to turn the page on a war which has cost...

WASHINGTON- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Tuesday condemned from Washington a West Bank attack that killed four Israeli settlers, saying it was intended to "disrupt the political process."...

AMMAN- Outspoken Arab Israeli MP Haneen Zuabi on Tuesday told a UN human rights inquiry into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that its commandos had a "licence to kill." "I told...

VIENNA, Pierre Feuilly- The new French director of Vienna's famed opera house, Dominique Meyer, has big plans for his establishment: more Mozart, newer works, but also a reform of the ballet company...

ROME- Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's visit to Rome to mark the second anniversary of a friendship treaty with former coloniser Italy stumbled into controversy Monday after he said Europe should...

JERUSALEM- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to reassure his right-wing Likud bloc in Israel's ruling coalition on Monday he would not bow to territorial concessions in peace talks with the...

AMMAN- A UN human rights inquiry into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla started on Monday a probe in Jordan where investigators interviewed four Jordanian activists. "The UN...