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Tunisia's deposed President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was given a five-year jail term in absentia and fined 3.5 million euros for corruption, adding to the two life sentences he has already received, judicial sources said on Tuesday.
The former...
Clashes broke out for the second day on Tuesday between police and angry supporters of a top Tunisian football club in the town of Bizertin after it was controversially eliminated from the league.
Police used tear gas to disperse students...
A Kuwaiti court on Monday sentenced main opposition leader and former MP Mussallam al-Barrak to five years in prison after he was convicted of insulting the emir, an AFP correspondent said.
"The court has sentenced the defendant Mussallam al-...
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has resigned, ending months of rising tension with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, despite US efforts to keep him in place.
The resignation of the US-educated economist, who won broad international...
The Gulf Cooperation Council called Sunday for international inspectors to be sent to Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant over concerns of possible radiation leaks after an earthquake hit the area.
The body demanded the International Atomic...
Israel's population has passed the 8 million mark, the Central Bureau of Statistics said Sunday, as the state prepared to mark 65 years since its founding.
"The population of Israel, on the eve of the 65th Independence Day, is 8,018,000...
President Bashar al-Assad's forces destroyed the minaret of the historic Omari mosque where Syria's uprising erupted two years ago in the southern city of Deraa, opposition activists said Sunday.
In amateur video footage the activists...
Hopes of a US-sponsored push to resume stalled Middle East peace talks have been scaled back following US Secretary of State John Kerry's latest visit, to securing economic goals for the West Bank.
Internal Palestinian disputes including the...
Tunisia's interior ministry released on Saturday the photos of five Islamists wanted for the assassination in February of secular opposition politician Chokri Belaid and appealed for help in arresting them.
In a statement on its Facebook page,...
The retrial of former President Hosni Mubarak after he appealed against a life sentence began on Saturday in Cairo and was immediately adjourned as the judge recused himself amid chaotic scenes.
Mostafa Hassan Abdallah recused himself after a...
