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Egypt's telecom giant Orascom Telecom Holding says its Bangladeshi subsidiary Banglalink has been approved a 15-year license to continue operating…

SANAA - Anti-government tribesmen overran an army base housing an elite unit north of Yemen's capital early Monday, security officials…

JERUSALEM - An Israeli court has ordered the government to pay US$432,000 to the family of a prominent Palestinian peace…

NAIROBI, Kenya - Wangari Maathai, the first African woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, died after a long struggle…

RAMALLAH - Thousands of Palestinians cheering and waving flags gave President Mahmoud Abbas a hero's welcome in the West Bank…

  ALGIERS — A new "day of rage" was called recently in this violence-scarred North African nation. But when the…

  NEW YORK - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the UN nuclear watchdog of being in the pocket of the…

SANAA - President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned Friday to the Yemeni capital after more than three months of medical treatment…

VIENNA - Iran was praised and Israel criticized Wednesday at a 151-nation meeting, with Cuba and Venezuela defending Tehran’s right…

Palestinian officials brushed aside a promised US veto and pressure to abandon their bid for UN membership, saying they were…