DAMASCUS - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said Friday that captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will not be freed unless Israel releases hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
"Shalit will not to home...
WASHINGTON, Lucile Malandain- A year after President Barack Obama ordered Guantanamo closed, the prison remains intact and some 50 detainees appear set to be locked up indefinitely. But civilian...
BAGHDAD, Arthur MacMillan - US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Friday on a mission aimed at defusing a political crisis after hundreds of candidates allegedly linked to Saddam Hussein...
PARIS - The leading medical journal The Lancet on Friday accused major aid organisations of corporate preening and self-interest that had contributed to bedlam in the effort to help Haiti....
PARIS- US troops withdrawn from the front line in Iraq and Afghanistan for medical reasons from 2004 to 2007 were increasingly evacuated because of psychiatric problems, a study released on Friday...
JERUSALEM - Israel will maintain a security presence along the eastern border of a future Palestinian state in order to prevent weapons smuggling, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on...
WASHINGTON- A group of US lawmakers urged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a letter released Wednesday to "properly" prosecute gunmen behind the recent slayings of six Coptic Christians.
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WASHINGTON - Muslim groups reacted angrily Wednesday after it emerged that the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan were using rifle sights inscribed with coded Biblical references.
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TEHRAN- Iran has arrested four people over the assassination of a prosecutor which an official said has been claimed by the separatist Kurdish group PJAK, the Mehr news agency reported on Tuesday....
BEIRUT - US Middle East envoy George Mitchell was due in Beirut on Tuesday at the beginning of a new regional tour aimed at restarting Middle East peace talks, a Lebanese foreign ministry official...
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