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KHARTOUM/BEIJING - China's foreign minister was due to meet Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir Monday for the highest-level talks between the two allies in the Sudanese capital since South Sudan seceded to form an independent state.
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Noble Corp announced several new contracts on Monday for oil rigs operating in the North Sea, Egypt and Gulf of Mexico.
The owner of the world's third-largest offshore drilling fleet said its Noble Paul Romano rig has received a 180-day contract...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - US officials have convinced Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, convalescing in Saudi Arabia from an assassination attempt, not to return to his country, the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported on Monday.
The...
AMMAN, Jordan - President Bashar al-Assad extended a tank onslaught in Syria's Sunni Muslim tribal heartland on Monday, residents said, in an escalating crackdown on protesters that prompted an extraordinary rebuke from the Saudi king warning...
KABUL, Afghanistan - A NATO helicopter crashed in Afghanistan's east on Monday but there were no apparent casualties, officials said, a reminder of the dangers of the war after 38 people were killed in an air incident two days ago, the largest...
NASA scientists have discovered new evidence that briny water flows on Mars during its warmest months, raising chances that life could exist on the Red Planet, the space agency said on Thursday.
NASA first found signs of water on Mars more than a...
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faces growing isolation as the bloodshed from his crackdown on demonstrators seeking his overthrow begins to alienate even sympathetic Arab neighbors.
Syrian tanks stormed the eastern city of Deir...
Egypt's net foreign reserves slipped to US$25.71 billion in July but economists said there was a slowdown in the rate of the decline, which may now suggest the worst of the capital flight since Egypt’s recent uprising was over.
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JERUSALEM, Israel - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrambled on Sunday to try to quell escalating demonstrations for lower living costs after a quarter-million people marched in the biggest economy-related protests in Israel's history.
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AMMAN, Jordan - Syrian tanks moved into parts of the restive eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Sunday amid the noise of heavy machinegun fire and explosions, residents and activists said.
"Armored vehicles and tanks have entered several...
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