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French lawmakers were due to vote on a highly symbolic motion Tuesday urging the government to recognise Palestine as a…

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has said Egypt will never return to the past and is charting a new future, after…

Crude oil prices sunk to fresh low points on Monday, dragging down the share prices of energy companies, while miners…

The Israeli army shot and wounded a Palestinian woman on Monday after she stabbed an Israeli civilian near a Jewish…

A leading German pilots' union has called a fresh walkout at Lufthansa starting Monday in an ongoing dispute with the…

Critics on Sunday accused Egypt's courts of taking sides after the dropping of a murder charge against ex-president Hosni Mubarak, with…

Hundreds of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters faced off against police in a fresh escalation of tensions on Sunday night, as…

Egypt's jailed ex-president Hosni Mubarak could be released early after serving two-thirds of a corruption sentence and seeing murder charges…

Christians, whose fate will be broached by Pope Francis on his visit to Turkey, have been rooted in the wider…

 Nearly 7,000 people have now died from Ebola in west Africa, with the latest report from the World Health Organization…