BEIRUT- Tens of thousands of Lebanese-Armenians took to the streets of Beirut on Saturday in a peaceful demonstration to mark the 95th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman...

LONDON- Britain's Foreign Office issued a public apology Saturday after an official document suggested the pope should open an abortion clinic and bless a gay marriage during his visit later this...

BEIRUT- Lebanon has lodged a complaint with the UN Security Council over a memorial Israel inaugurated this week in the disputed Shebaa Farms border region, the foreign ministry said Friday. The...

WASHINGTON- Syria is providing a "wider array" of missiles to Hezbollah, a US diplomat said Friday, stopping short of accusing Damascus of supplying Scuds to the Lebanese Shiite militia. "We are...

JERUSALEM, Steve Weizman- Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Friday that he saw the current diplomacy by the US Middle East envoy leading to agreement within weeks on renewed peace talks...

DAKAR- Around 10 million people have been affected by a food crisis in western Africa's drought-hit Sahel region, the United Nations humanitarian chief said during a visit Friday. "This new food...

AL-ARISH- There were no rockets fired from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula into Israel on Thursday, Egyptian security officials said after an Israel TV channel said two might have been fired from there....

PARIS- Muslim tourists in France will be forbidden to wear the full-face veil along with French residents under the government's plan to ban the garment in public places, a minister said on...

CAIRO- A UN expert called on Wednesday for Egypt to take more action to combat human trafficking, laying out a list of social ills running from child labour to sexual exploitation. Joy Ngozi...