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New Orleans--The image of thick crude gushing from a blown-out oil well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico was turned off when a tightly fitting cap was secured on top a month-and-a-half ago.
Engineers weren't expecting that sight again Thursday...
Washington--President Barack Obama opened a new round of Mideast peacemaking Wednesday, bringing Israeli and Palestinian leaders to the White House for talks aimed at forging agreement within one year on a two-state solution: a sovereign Palestine...
Egypt's antiquities authority announced on Wednesday the discovery of an ancient trading settlement in one of its desert oases dating back more than 3500 years, a millennium older than previous discoveries in the area.
The Yale University...
Melilla, Spain--In this crowded and muggy speck of Europe perched on Africa's shoulder, with the Mediterranean to one side and gigantic Morocco to the other, a person might be forgiven for going a little stir crazy.
The few aircraft that come to...
Stockholm--WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is suspected of rape in Sweden, where authorities have issued a warrant for his arrest, officials said Saturday.
The 39-year-old Australian denied the allegations on WikiLeaks' Twitter page, saying...
Paris--France's interior minister says that a radical Muslim imam and a "preacher of hate" has been expelled to his Egyptian homeland.
A statement says that Ali Ibrahim El Soudany, a former prayer leader at a mosque in Pantin, just...
Jerusalem--A former Israeli soldier who posted photos on Facebook of herself in uniform smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners said her actions were "thoughtless," but she stopped short of apologizing.
Both the Israeli...
Baghdad--A suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday among hundreds of army recruits who had gathered near a military headquarters in an attack officials said killed 60 and wounded 125, one of the bloodiest bombings in months in the Iraqi capital.
The...
Singapore--When Jihan El Midany leads the Egyptian delegation into Saturday's opening ceremony of the inaugural Youth Olympics, it will be a historic moment for her country.
The 18-year-old pentathlete will become the first woman from Egypt to...
London--The man who once served as Saddam Hussein's leading lieutenant has appealed to the United States to extend its presence in Iraq, saying that President Barack Obama is abandoning the country, according to a British newspaper...
