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BEIJING — China said on Tuesday it supports the Palestinian bid for UN observer status, with a vote on the…

"Omnishambles" was named Britain's word of the year Tuesday after being coined by BBC political comedy television series "The Thick…

Palestinians on Tuesday began work to open the grave of the late Yasser Arafat ahead of an exhumation of his…

DOHA/CAIRO — Syria's newly named opposition leader, a soft-spoken cleric backed by Washington and the Gulf Arab states, launched his quest…

  JERUSALEM — Israel struck three targets in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Tuesday and warned an…

Israel will not carry out its threat of financial sanctions if Palestinians achieve a statehood upgrade at the United Nations,…

Syria's newly named opposition leader, a soft-spoken cleric backed by Washington and the Gulf Arab states, launched his quest on…

The United States will overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world's top oil producer by 2017, the West's energy…

West African leaders at an emergency summit on Sunday agreed on a 3,300-strong force to wrest control of northern Mali…

Sporadic missile fire from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel Monday for a fourth straight day, with Egypt trying to…