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Amos Oz, Israel's best-known writer, was on Monday named the winner of this year's international Franz Kafka literary prize for his imaginative tales of life in the Jewish state.
Oz will receive the award and a $10,000 (7,700-euro) cheque...
Europe's Digital Agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes on Monday welcomed a pledge by Egypt to maintain an 'open' Internet that would not be subject to government shut downs, as was the case during the 2011 uprising.
Kroes, Vice-President of...
Iran has opened two lines of credit totalling $4 billion to Damascus and expects to open up a third to counter the effects of an international embargo, Syria's central bank said on Monday.
"Iran continues to support Syria, by opening one...
A Jordanian military tribunal on Monday jailed nine Muslim extremists who were planning to go to neighbouring Syria to fight for jihad, a court official said.
"Today, the state security court initially sentenced nine Salafist jihadist for five...
BEIJING- A Chinese tourist who defaced an ancient Egyptian monument was hunted down by Internet users who prompted his parents to apologize, state media reported on Monday.
A photo posted on Chinese social networking service Sina Weibo showed...
Two rockets hit Hezbollah's heartland in Beirut on Sunday as the Lebanese Shiite group battled alongside Syrian regime forces and Damascus said it agreed "in principle" to attend a Geneva peace conference.
The early morning attack came...
Islamists attacked a group of kissing couples who locked lips in a Turkish metro station to protest a morality campaign by the authorities in Ankara, the local press reported on Sunday.
One person was stabbed when about 20 Islamists chanting "...
Iran's defence minister insisted on Saturday that the country has never sent "military forces" to Syria, reiterating its denial of allegations by Western powers backing Syrian rebels.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has never sent...
Peace between Israelis and Palestinians is "still possible", Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday, hailing US Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to revive stalled talks.
In a speech to the World Economic Forum in...
Intense clashes rocked the central Syrian town of Qusayr on Saturday, a watchdog reported, as regime forces backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah pressed an assault they launched almost nearly a week ago.
Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the...
