JERUSALEM- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an inquiry Saturday into why a contested settlement plan was announced during a landmark visit by US Vice President Joe Biden, a spokesman...
BEIJING, Joelle Garrus - Michel Plasson has led some of the world's greatest orchestras, from Berlin to Paris to London, but he has come east to take on a new challenge as the first foreign principal...
JERUSALEM- Israeli police said on Saturday access to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem -- Islam's third holiest site -- would be restricted on Sunday to men under 50 amid fears of fresh...
BEIRUT- Lebanon's Druze leader Walid Jumblatt on Saturday called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to turn the page on the past, admitting that he had in a moment of anger said inappropriate...
TUNIS- Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas lashed out at Iran on Friday, blaming Tehran for being behind the latest failure to reconcile his secular Fatah movement with its Isalamist rival Hamas....
UNITED NATIONS- Calling the subjugation of women a threat to American security, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a vibrant appeal Friday to give equal rights to women around the world....
UNITED NATIONS - The Middle East diplomatic Quartet on Friday condemned Israel's plans to build new settler homes and said unilateral actions would not be recognized by the international community....
WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael - A new spat over settlements exposes how rocky US-Israeli ties have become that the Obama team's modest success in launching indirect Middle East peace talks may...
WASHINGTON- The White House on Wednesday offered its condolences following the death of Sunni Islam's top cleric, who last year hosted President Barack Obama's landmark speech to the Muslim world....
PARIS - The city of Paris Wednesday defended plans to inaugurate a site honouring Israel's first prime minister after criticism it had not done likewise for the late Palestinian leader Yasser...
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