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LONDON — James Murdoch resigned as chairman of pay-TV giant BSkyB Tuesday, saying he did not want to become a…

A Lebanese ex-general convicted of leaking information to Israel was released from prison on Tuesday, his lawyer Rashad Salame told AFP. Fayez Karam, a high-profile…

West African leaders slapped crippling sanctions on Mali's new junta ahead of emergency UN talks Tuesday on the troubled nation,…

Some of the 16 suspected Islamic militants detained in France allegedly planned to kidnap a Jewish magistrate and other people,…

The Coptic Orthodox Church decided to boycott the Islamist-dominated panel charged with drafting Egypt’s future constitution, state-run news agency MENA…

Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti has been placed in solitary confinement for a week after calling for the Palestinians to…

President Bashar al-Assad's regime pressed its deadly campaign to crush dissent on Monday, reportedly pounding northern rebel strongholds as it…

Yemen's army shelled Al-Qaeda hideouts in the southern city of Zinjibar, one of the jihadists' major strongholds, killing six militants,…

Israel on Sunday deported a female Palestinian prisoner who spent 43 days on hunger strike to the Gaza Strip, under…

Jordanian military prosecutors on Sunday charged 13 political activists with incitement against the regime, rioting and insulting King Abdullah II,…