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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Egypt this month for talks with the country's a new Islamist president, and will follow that with a stop in Israel to discuss Middle East peace efforts, the State Department...
TRIPOLI — The main storage center for election materials in the eastern Libyan town of Ajdabiya caught fire on Thursday in a suspected arson attack two days before a 7 July national election, eyewitnesses and a security source said.
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KUWAIT — Kuwait's emir on Thursday asked outgoing Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah to form a new government, state news agency KUNA said, in a move that may help ease a political crisis in the Western-allied OPEC oil...
MILAN — Searing heat in the US Midwest is expected to see global food prices snap three months of declines in July, the UN said on Thursday, as some international grain prices surged to highs last seen during the 2007–2008 food crisis....
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy on Wednesday to wish him success, Egyptian state-run MENA news service reported.
The call appeared to be the first contact between the two leaders since Morsy was sworn in...
YAYLADAGI, Turkey — Syrian artillery pounded a northwestern town on Wednesday and areas near the ghost city of Douma, where residents recovered mutilated corpses after a rampage by militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, activists said...
Scientists at the CERN research center have found a new subatomic particle that could be the Higgs boson, the basic building block of the universe.
"I can confirm that a particle has been discovered that is consistent with the Higgs boson...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon pleaded on Tuesday for a binding pact to regulate the more than $60 billion global weapons market, while delegates at a treaty drafting conference worked to defuse a dispute over Palestinian participation.
"We...
DIWANIYA, Iraq — Bombs killed at least 44 people at markets in Iraq on Tuesday, and authorities said they bore the hallmarks of sectarian attacks on Shia Muslims by Al-Qaeda Sunni militants.
A bomb in a small truck exploded in a market in the...
Egypt will approach the International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions to help get its economy back on track once President Mohamed Morsy appoints a government, a financial adviser who helped draw up his manifesto said.
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