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It will take Iran "over a year or so" to develop a nuclear weapon, US President Barack Obama told Israel's Channel 2 television a week before he pays a historic visit to the Jewish state. "We think that it would take over a year...
A Tunisian cigarette vendor who set himself alight in a street of the capital Tunis has died from the severe burns he suffered, a medical official said on Wednesday. Twenty-seven-year-old Adel Khadri, who torched himself on Tuesday, "died today...
  Children are being increasingly recruited on the frontline in Syria's war, with both sides of the conflict using boys as soldiers and even human shields, a British charity said Wednesday.   Save the Children said in a report that 2...
A decade after the US-led invasion of Iraq, years of violence and disdain for the country's current political class fuel nostalgia for Saddam Hussein — the man the foreign troops fought to oust. Though accusations of ties to Saddam and...
  The International Monetary Fund said Monday that it could provide an emergency short-term loan to Egypt if needed, as talks for a longer-term US$4.8 billion financing program have bogged down. But the global crisis lender said that even for a...
Nelson Mandela, South Africa's frail anti-apartheid hero who spent a night in hospital at the weekend for a medical checkup, is doing well but has memory lapses, a close friend said on Monday. Renowned South African human rights lawyer George...
An Egyptian citizen died on Sunday in Libya during his detention pending investigations into charges of evangelism, a diplomatic source said. The source, speaking to Anadolu news agency on condition of anonymity, said Ezzat Atallah died of natural...
US President Barack Obama's three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories will begin on 20 March, Israel said Sunday, in the first official announcement of the much-anticipated visit. A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin...
Two years after the Arab Spring uprisings, Tunisia and Egypt are trying to win back holidaymakers in a lifeblood sector for both countries which are gripped by renewed political crisis. Leading tourism officials from Tunisia and Egypt were keen to...
SOFIA — A third Bulgarian man died Sunday after setting himself on fire amid protests against growing poverty and corruption in the European Union's poorest country, hospital officials said. Ventsislav Vasilev, a 53-year-old unemployed...