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A hot air balloon caught fire and exploded as it was flying over Egypt's ancient temple city of Luxor on Tuesday, killing 19 tourists, a security official said.
An employee at the company operating the balloon told AFP the tourists were from...
A Qatari appeals court on Monday reduced to 15 years the prison sentence handed to a poet accused of incitement against the regime after a lower court had jailed him for life, his lawyer said.
"My client was sentenced today to 15 years in...
Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei warned of chaos in the troubled nation if parliamentary polls go ahead in April, as protesters demonstrated in Cairo against President Mohamed Morsy.
ElBaradei, a leading figure in the National Salvation...
Palestinian political and religious leaders stressed Sunday that US President Barack Obama should not visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem in a way that might compromise its "Muslim sovereignty."
Obama will be arriving in Israel...
French freelance photographer Olivier Voisin, who was seriously wounded in Syria Thursday, has died of his wounds after surgery in Turkey, the French foreign ministry said.
"We confirm his death," a ministry spokesperson said Sunday....
Some 3,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails were staging a one-day hunger strike Sunday in protest at the death of an inmate, an official said, as Israel's security forces braced for demonstrations.
"About 3,000 prisoners announced that...
Regional African leaders signed a deal Sunday aimed at pacifying the troubled east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
"It is my hope that that the framework will lead to an era of peace and stability for the people of the Democratic...
Tunisia's prime minister-designate, Ali Larayedh, was to start work Saturday on forming a new government after his predecessor and fellow Islamist Hamadi Jebali stepped down in the face of a political deadlock.
Rached Ghannouchi, who heads the...
The Syrian army's use of surface-to-surface missiles on Aleppo is part of a bid to advance on the northern city, swathes of which have fallen into rebel hands since mid-2012, a watchdog said Saturday.
"The army has been trying for weeks to...
The Barack Obama administration took another step toward institutionalizing gay marriage, formally asking the US Supreme Court to strike down a 1996 law defining marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman.
The request was contained in...
