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Israeli forces on Tuesday razed four temporary structures in two West Bank settler outposts, police said, in an operation just 36 hours before a visit by US President Barack Obama.
The overnight operation targeted structures in the outposts of Or...
Pope Francis knelt at the tomb of St Peter and donned the symbols of papal power at a sumptuous inauguration on Tuesday, vowing to embrace the "poorest, the weakest" of humanity.
Nearly 200,000 pilgrims cheered Latin America's first...
Syria's main opposition National Coalition early Tuesday elected Ghassan Hitto, a former US-based IT executive with Islamist leanings, as prime minister for Syrian rebel-held territory.
In a new challenge to the regime of President Bashar al-...
A Saudi court sentenced an Indonesian housemaid to death after she was convicted of murdering her employers' four-year-old child, the Saudi Gazette reported on Monday.
The maid was "charged with decapitating the girl with a cleaver when her...
French President Francois Hollande urged Europe's leaders on Thursday to lift an arms embargo on Syria to help rebels battling for nearly two years to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
He spoke as London and Paris sought jointly...
It will take Iran "over a year or so" to develop a nuclear weapon, US President Barack Obama told Israel's Channel 2 television a week before he pays a historic visit to the Jewish state.
"We think that it would take over a year...
A Tunisian cigarette vendor who set himself alight in a street of the capital Tunis has died from the severe burns he suffered, a medical official said on Wednesday.
Twenty-seven-year-old Adel Khadri, who torched himself on Tuesday, "died today...
Children are being increasingly recruited on the frontline in Syria's war, with both sides of the conflict using boys as soldiers and even human shields, a British charity said Wednesday.
Save the Children said in a report that 2...
A decade after the US-led invasion of Iraq, years of violence and disdain for the country's current political class fuel nostalgia for Saddam Hussein — the man the foreign troops fought to oust.
Though accusations of ties to Saddam and...
The International Monetary Fund said Monday that it could provide an emergency short-term loan to Egypt if needed, as talks for a longer-term US$4.8 billion financing program have bogged down.
But the global crisis lender said that even for a...
