COPENHAGEN, Richard Ingham - A UN climate summit Saturday rammed through a battle plan against global warming forged by US President Barack Obama and other top leaders, sidelining smaller states...

CAIRO - Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit implicitly confirmed on Saturday that his country was building an underground barrier with the Gaza Strip, saying it was Cairo's right to protect...

COPENHAGEN - Environmental campaigners on Friday branded the Copenhagen climate summit a failure, saying it made progress on financing the battle against climate change but little else. US...

JERUSALEM - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Thursday he had been invited for talks in Turkey, a long-time ally with whom relations have been frosty over the past year. "Today I met the...

ARRECIFE- Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar left hospital Thursday where she was treated while on a hunger strike to travel back to the Moroccan territory. "This is a triumph...

ALON SHVUT- Hardline Jewish settlers on Wednesday started rebuilding an outpost in the occupied West Bank in an act of defiance against Israel's partial moratorium on settlement construction....

WASHINGTON- The United States on Wednesday voiced "concern" at Iran's latest missile test, calling it a "provocative" act that cast serious doubt over Tehran's claim of peaceful intentions....

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama will have to sell his escalation of the war in Afghanistan to his divided Democratic allies in the US Congress, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said...

WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama's administration announced Tuesday that a batch of Guantanamo Bay detainees will be transferred to an isolated maximum-security jail in rural Illinois. As he...