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Tunisia ex-dictator receives new life sentence
Tunisia's former dictator on Thursday received his second life sentence in absentia from a military court that convicted him for complicity in the ...
Kuwait gets new government amid political standoff
Kuwait says the Gulf nation's ruler has approved a new government after weeks of political limbo over disputes with Islamists and other opposition ...
US's Chevron announces deal with Iraq's Kurds
U.S. oil giant Chevron Corp. says it has signed a deal to acquire two oil drilling blocks in Iraq's northern Kurdish region, where authorities have ...
Swiss govt wants to end death penalty everywhere
The Swiss government has reaffirmed its commitment toward seeking the abolition of the death penalty "throughout the world." A Foreign Ministry ...
Lebanon indicts dozens from 2007 clashes
Lebanese judicial officials say an investigative judge has indicted 88 people allegedly involved in 2007 fighting against the army in a Palestinian ...
Egypt court delays ruling on constitutional panel
A Cairo court has postponed to July 30 a key ruling that will determine the legality of an Islamist-dominated panel tasked to write Egypt's new ...
Spain's Repsol sells Chile unit for $540 million
Spanish energy firm Repsol is selling a Chilean natural gas unit for $540 million in cash and will use $317 million of the proceeds to pay off debt.
British PM: Afghan and Pakistan in joint fight
British Prime Minister David Cameron called on Afghanistan and Pakistan on Thursday to make common cause against insurgents in the two countries' ...
Syria uprising puts Hezbollah on defensive
On a main road connecting the Lebanese capital with the south, Sheik Ahmad Assir kneels under a blazing sun to pray and then sits down with supporters ...
Israel's Barak: We'll block Syrian refugees
Defense Minister Ehud Barak, standing within earshot of fighting in Syria, said Thursday that Israel would stop Syrian refugees from entering the ...
Italy sets March appeal for Amanda Knox acquittal
An Italian court in Perugia has set March 25 for the prosecution's appeal of Amanda Knox's acquittal in the 2007 murder of her British roommate ...
Official: Jihadists kill 2 Egypt soldiers in Sinai
An Egyptian security official says Islamist militants have shot to death two soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula, close to the border with the Gaza Strip.
Lloyds Banking to sell 632 branches to Co-op
Lloyds Banking Group said Thursday it has reached a preliminary agreement to sell 632 branches to the Co-operative Group. Lloyds was ordered to ...
British PM says Assad must step down
British Prime Minister David Cameron called on Thursday on Syria's president to step down following an escalation of violence and bombings in the ...
8th person dies in attack on Israelis in Bulgaria
Israel's Foreign Ministry says the death toll in the bombing of a bus of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria has risen to eight, after a man died of his ...
Kim given new title; NKorea introduces army chief
Hundreds of soldiers danced in Pyongyang's plazas after North Korea announced that leader Kim Jong Un was named marshal, a title cementing his status ...
UN vote on Syria delayed until Thursday
The U.N. Security Council delayed a vote on a new Syria resolution until Thursday in a last-minute effort to get key Western nations and Russia to ...
Rebel bombing strikes at heart of Syrian regime
Rebels penetrated the heart of Syria's power elite Wednesday, detonating a bomb inside a high-level crisis meeting in Damascus that killed three ...
Attack on Israeli tourist bus in Bulgaria kills 7
Israel vowed to strike back at Iran for a brazen daylight bombing Wednesday that killed at least seven people on a bus full of Israeli tourists in ...
Islamist rebel group releases 3 hostages
A helicopter was dispatched to Mali on Wednesday to retrieve three European hostages held for the past 10 months by a jihadist group, according to the ...
New inquiry into death of UN's Dag Hammarskjold
A group of international jurists has been commissioned to reinvestigate the 1961 death of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, one of the Cold ...
Yemen president warns Iran to stop meddling
Yemen's president on Wednesday called on Iran to stop spying in his country, warning that the Shiite-led nation would "pay the price" if it continues ...
Protesters try to storm Syria embassy in Egypt
Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas to push back several hundred protesters trying to storm the Syrian Embassy in Cairo and raise the ...
Libya's independents might emerge as third power
Libya's elections have brought in a large new political generation of independents — businessmen, activists, former judges and former exiles — who ...
Revered ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbi dies at 102
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, revered by Jews worldwide as the top rabbinic authority of this generation for his scholarship and rulings on complex ...