ADEN: At least 43 African migrants trying to reach Yemen by boat have drowned in heavy seas off the coast, and a second boat with up to 40 Ethiopians aboard...
CAIRO: Egypt is screening people who arrived recently from countries where Al-Qaeda is known to recruit after early findings suggested the network was behind...
BAGHDAD: Gun and bomb attacks killed three Iraqis and wounded 15 Monday, security officials said. Also Monday, the U.S. military said two U.S. soldiers had...
DUBAI: Dubai’s index advanced to a three-week high Sunday, led by property-linked stocks, as investors built new positions on the first trading day of 2011. ...
HONOLULU: President Barack Obama has set his New Year’s resolution high for 2011: repair the struggling US economy. In his weekly radio and internet address...
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, the African Union’s mediator in the Ivory Coast crisis, arrived in Nigeria Sunday. Odinga is to travel on to Abidjan...
KHARTOUM: Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has made a rare public appeal to opposition parties to join a broad based-government just days ahead of a...
TEHRAN: Iran has shot down two unmanned Western reconnaissance drone aircraft in the Gulf, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander was quoted as saying by the...
Louis Charbonneau Reuters JUBA, Sudan: South Sudan’s president told UN Security Council envoys his region might have to hold its own...
Ken Ritter Associated Press LAS VEGAS: Tony Curtis molded himself from a 1950s movie heartthrob to a respected actor, showing a determined streak that...
Jeffrey Heller Reuters OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Premier Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel could not extend a moratorium on housing construction in...
Mohamed Olad Hassan Associated Press MOGADISHU: Fighting in Somalia’s capital flared for a third straight day Wednesday, killing eight people and...
Ramin Mostafavi Reuters BUSHEHR, Iran: Tehran would stop higher-grade enrichment if it was assured of nuclear fuel supplies for a research reactor,...
KHARTOUM: Sudan on Saturday barred three activists from leaving the country to attend a conference on the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has issued...
Iran’s foreign minister said on Friday he believed major powers were considering a proposed nuclear fuel swap positively, despite Washington’s...
Pro-Palestinian activists vowed to press ahead and break an Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip on Thursday by sending in a convoy of aid ships despite Israeli...
United States President Barack Obama hosted Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the White House on Monday, with the US leader expected to raise concerns about Syria...
BEIRUT: Following a busy weekend of talks in Egypt and Turkey, Prime Minister Saad Hariri headed to Washington on Sunday to meet President Barack Obama on...
Two key Russian Parliament members said on Friday proposed UN sanctions on Iran would not affect Russia’s controversial sale of S-300 missiles to...
ARBIL, Iraq: Iranian troops fired into the air and detained an Iraqi border patrol officer after mistaking Iraqi border guards for Kurdish rebels on a...
BAGHDAD: A recount of 2.5 million votes cast in Baghdad in Iraq’s March 7 election has been completed and no fraud was found, an Iraqi election official...
PARIS/FRANKFURT/RIYADH: Travelers in Europe face fresh air traffic disruptions as a volcanic ash cloud that cost airlines millions of dollars last month...
BEIRUT: The London-based Otolith Group is one of the four nominees for Britain’s top art award. Comprised of writer-curators Anjalika Sagar, 42, and...
Nine South Sudanese opposition parties said on Tuesday they would challenge the election of the region’s president and state governors in court, adding...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday the United States was seeking tough new sanctions to “sharpen the choices that Iran’s leaders...