JERUSALEM, Patrick Moser- The Rachel Corrie activist cargo ship kept its course for a Saturday arrival in Gaza -- or confrontation -- as world anger simmered over Israel's deadly raid on an earlier...

ANKARA- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he did not view radical Palestinian group Hamas, Israel's arch-foe, as a terrorist organisation. "Hamas are resistance fighters who...

PARIS, Myrian Chaplain-Riou - Stephenie Meyer, the Mormon mother turned best-selling author, closes a five-year rags-to-riches saga next weekend with the release of the final chapter in her vampire...

SAO PAULO- Activists on board the flotilla raided by Israeli commandos this week are poised to broadcast their own footage of the deadly operation to counter edited Israeli-released footage, one of...

GENEVA- Non-governmental US watchdog Freedom House said Thursday Myanmar, North Korea, Libya, Somalia and Sudan were among the worst violators of human rights worldwide. In its 13th annual report...

WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael- The Obama team was caught Wednesday between a rock and a hard place as it tried to navigate between key allies Israel and Turkey following an Israeli raid on a...

CAIRO- Arab foreign ministers were meeting in Cairo on Wednesday in a bid to come up with a unified response to an Israeli raid on an aid convoy bound for the Gaza Strip that left nine people dead....

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- Egyptians voted on Tuesday to elect members of parliament's upper house in a poll marked by widespread voter apathy, charges of irregularities and a clash in which three...

WASHINGTON- Former US vice president and anti-global warming campaigner Al Gore and his wife Tipper have told friends that they will separate after four decades of marriage, an aide said Tuesday....