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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday handed over power temporarily to his prime minister, as he underwent a successful gall-bladder surgery in Germany, Egyptian state media reported.
The Egyptian leader is in German hospital convalescing,...
As of Friday, March 5, 2010, at least 930 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.
The AP count is four more...
Jerusalem--Clashes have erupted between Muslim worshippers and Israeli police at the most sensitive holy site in Jerusalem.
Israeli police say worshippers emerging from Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque threw stones at policemen and at Jews...
An Egyptian court on Thursday ordered the retrial of a real estate mogul sentenced to death for murdering his former lover, a Lebanese pop star, in a case that transfixed the Arab world.
The Cairo appeals court overturned the conviction of Hisham...
Lucknow, India--A stampede broke out in at a temple in northern India as thousands of people jostled each other to get free clothes and utensils being distributed during a religious ceremony, leaving at least 63 people dead and dozens more injured,...
Baghdad--A string of three deadly suicide bombings killed at least 30 people in the former insurgent stronghold of Baqouba on Wednesday, including a blast from a suicide bomber who rode in an ambulance with the wounded before blowing himself up at a...
Jerusalem-- A senior Hamas leader publicly disowned his son Monday, days after the young man announced he had secretly spied for Israel and helped authorities hunt down members of the Islamic militant group.
Hamas Web sites published a letter late...
Gaza City-- Under a sea blockade, the coastal Gaza Strip has now become a seafood importer. Its desperate fishermen--cut off from plentiful fishing grounds by Israeli patrol boats--have turned to sneaking into Egyptian waters in tiny motorboats to...
Washington-- Al-Qaeda's terror network in North Africa is growing more active and attracting new recruits, threatening to further destabilize the continent's already vulnerable Sahara region, according to U.S. defense and counter-terrorism officials...
Dubai--Police said Sunday forensic tests show a Hamas commander who was killed in his hotel room by an alleged Israeli hit squad was drugged with a fast-acting muscle relaxant and then suffocated with a pillow.
The drug, called succinylcholine, is...
