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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel released on Tuesday a member of the Palestinian national soccer team who had been held for three years without formal charges and who pushed for his freedom with a hunger strike of more than 90 days.
Mahmoud...
TRIPOLI — A liberal alliance led by a former Libyan rebel prime minister said Sunday the party's unofficial preliminary results put it in the lead in the country's landmark parliamentary elections, the first since the ouster of...
An Egyptian security official said border guards have arrested 68 African migrants trying to illegally cross into Israel.
The official said guards spotted the group close to the barbed wire border in the Sinai Peninsula late on Saturday and shot in...
MOSCOW — Intense flooding in the Black Sea region of southern Russia killed 103 people after torrential rains dropped nearly a foot of water, forcing many to scramble out of their beds for refuge in trees and on roofs, officials said Saturday...
TRIPOLI, Libya — The killing of an electoral worker and calls for a boycott on the eve of Libya's first vote since the overthrow of longtime dictator Moammar Qadhafi raised fears of election violence even as campaigning came to an...
RABAT, Morocco— Three of Morocco's most prominent conservative clerics have publicly backed a demand that a journalist be put to death for supporting greater sexual freedom in the North African kingdom.
Mokhtar el-Ghzioui, the editor of...
BEIRUT — Syrian forces killed at least 25 people, arrested scores of others and torched more than 100 homes while seizing a northern city from rebels, activists said Friday.
The violence followed the highest level defection yet from the regime...
The Interior Minister on Thursday tried to downplay the backgrounds of three men suspected of fatally stabbing a university student sitting with his fiance, saying they are not affiliated with Islamist parties or ideology.
Interior Minister Mohammed...
MANAMA, Bahrain — A Bahraini court ruled Thursday that an 11-year-old boy accused of taking part in anti-government protests may remain at home but must be monitored by authorities.
The ruling appeared to bring the case to a close.
Ali Hassan...
STOCKHOLM — A former Egyptian terror suspect who was deported from Sweden to his homeland by CIA agents in 2001 has been granted permanent residency in the Nordic country, an immigration official said Wednesday.
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