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Beirut--A senior Lebanese army officer says Lebanese and Israeli troops have exchanged fire on the border and one Lebanese soldier has been lightly wounded.
The officer says Tuesday's rare clash occurred in the border town of Aadassi as Israeli...
Nairobi, Kenya--The European Union Naval Force says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship with 23 crew onboard, including Egyptian sailors.
A statement issued by the EU force says the crew onboard the 17,300-ton MV Suez are...
Gaza City--Hamas says a senior commander of its military wing has been killed in an Israeli air strike.
Israeli warplanes launched missiles against five Hamas targets late on Friday and early Saturday, in response to a rocket attack on the Israeli...
Islamabad--A passenger jet carrying 152 people crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital amid rain and caught fire Wednesday, officials said. At least 25 people were killed, five survived with injuries and 45 recovered, but many more...
Baghdad--Authorities in Baghdad say at least six people were killed early today when a suicide bomber driving a minibus blew himself up in front of the office of a popular Arabic language satellite news channel.
An Iraqi military spokesman says the...
Tehran--An Iranian nuclear scientist who returned home last week from the United States provided valuable information about the CIA, a semiofficial news agency reported Wednesday, adding that his spy's tale would be made into a TV movie.
American...
Anti-American Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took a rare, public step into the political arena Monday, meeting in neighboring Syria with the man directly challenging Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for his office.
The talks between al-Sadr, who...
London--BP PLC (BP) said Monday it has signed a new agreement in Egypt to develop significant gas resources in two deep water blocks--a badly needed vote of confidence in the UK company whose reputation has been damaged by the deep water oil spill...
Twin suicide bombings killed 48 people on Sunday, including dozens from a government-backed, anti-al-Qaida militia who were lined up to get their paychecks near a military base southwest of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.
The bombings were the...
Gaza City--The international community must pressure Israel to go beyond easing its Gaza blockade and throw open the territory's long-blockaded borders, the EU foreign policy chief said after a tour of the Hamas-run coastal strip.
Catherine Ashton...
