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Egypt will cancel a tax on stock dividends and investment gains from takeovers and will return revenue already levied on one bank tie-up, a government official said on Monday, after protests by investors in the country's struggling equity market...
A suicide car bomb killed at least 15 people and wounded 53 in the main business district of Damascus on Monday in what the Syrian prime minister said was a response to army gains against rebels around the capital.
The bomb near a school in the...
North Korea suspended its sole remaining major project with the South on Monday, after weeks of threats against the United States and South Korea, as Russian President Vladimir Putin said any nuclear conflict could make Chernobyl look like a fairy...
Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady" who transformed Britain and inspired conservatives around the world by radically rolling back the state during her 11 years in power, died on Monday following a stroke. She was 87.
Britain's only...
Climate change could get worse quickly if huge amounts of extra heat absorbed by the oceans are released back into the air, scientists said after unveiling new research showing that oceans have helped mitigate the effects of warming since 2000.
Heat...
The European Union's foreign policy chief met President Mohamed Morsy Sunday to encourage the country's feuding political leaders to seek a national consensus in tackling mounting economic and political problems.
"This is a critical...
Egyptian authorities released a ship loaded with heavy weapons and its crew three days after they were seized for entering Egyptian territorial waters in the Red Sea, two security sources told Reuters on Sunday.
The Togolese-flagged ship named COMR...
At least 22 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a busy election campaign tent in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Saturday, police and medics said.
Another 60 people were wounded in the attack, which began with a hand grenade...
As much as 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, contaminating the surrounding ground, the Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Saturday.
The power company has yet to...
Freedom and Justice Party head Saad al-Katatny has condemned the clashes in the city of Khosous in Qalyubiya Governorate as “sectarian strife” and called them “unacceptable and dangerous.”
Katatny said in a Facebook statement...
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