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Egypt's first veiled newsreader on state television has drawn support from many viewers for ending an unwritten rule under ousted…

  Liberia's forestry department has given a quarter of the nation's land to logging firms over the past two years…

The Obama administration is close to a deal with Egypt's new government for US$1 billion in debt relief, a senior…

JOHANNESBURG — South African police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners at a gold mine near…

Images of smiling Kurdish MPs hugging rebels, rifles slung over their shoulders, at a remote roadblock in Turkey's mountainous southeast…

The vital tasks carried out by tiny "engineers" like earthworms that recycle waste and bees that pollinate crops are under…

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has defended his controversial visit to Iran, saying on Friday that he had used this…

  Rebels seized an air defense facility and attacked a military airport in eastern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group…

Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, who lost his bid for the presidency in June, said on Thursday he would return…

Ampal-American Israel Corp filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it faces deepening financial troubles in the wake of a…