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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that women were being sidelined in the hoped-for transition to democracy in Egypt, including during the current parliamentary elections.
"In Egypt, women have been largely excluded from the...
The Arab League expects the Damascus regime to sign up "soon" to an observer mission intended to monitor the protection of civilians, the bloc's number two Ahmed Ben Helli said on Saturday.
"There are positive signs... I expect...
Russia on Thursday surprised the Western powers by proposing a UN Security Council resolution on the Syria crisis amid mounting international shock over the deadly crackdown.
The resolution condemns the violence by President Bashar al-Assad...
Bahraini police have arrested prominent human rights blogger Zainab al-Khawaja, according to a rights group and video posted online of her being roughed up, handcuffed and dragged off into custody.
Khawaja had been taking part in a sit-in...
JERUSALEM — Extremist vandals on Thursday torched another mosque in the latest "price tag" reprisal attack as Israeli troops demolished part of an illegal settlement outpost in the northern West Bank.
It was the second time in as...
The Palestinian flag was raised for the first time on Tuesday above a UN agency, the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, in a diplomatic victory won despite stiff resistance from the US and Israel.
President Mahmoud Abbas looked on as the flag was raised...
Rights activist and former opposition leader Moncef Marzouki on Monday became Tunisia's first elected president since the north African country's revolution sparked the Arab Spring.
"I am proud to carry the most precious of...
Far from the uproar of Cairo's Tahrir Square, Israel has been doubling its efforts to erect a giant, impenetrable security barrier along its 240-km border with Egypt's Sinai.
Work on the new border fence began a year ago, in a project...
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian activist critically wounded by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops at a rally in the West Bank died on Saturday of his wounds, his family and Palestinian medics said.
Mustafa Abdelrazek al-Tamimi, 28, was...
DURBAN, South Africa — The world's nations on Sunday set their sights on a new all-encompassing pact on climate change that marks a break with the past and will also be gruelling to achieve.
The so-called Durban Package will, for the first...
