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The Arab world's most famous comic actor, Adel Imam, has received a three-month jail sentence for insulting Islam in films…

A minute's silence for the victims of Egypt's stadium disaster will be held at this weekend's African Nations Cup quarter-finals,…

Dozens of Palestinians threw shoes, sticks and stones at UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's convoy as it crossed into the…

BAGHDAD — Iraq's highest court ratified death sentences on Thursday for three men convicted of a 2010 attack on a…

Some of the Egyptian football fans who had a front-line role in toppling former President Hosni Mubarak have a new…

The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has announced a state of general mourning for three days, after violence in…

MOSCOW — Russia said on Wednesday it would veto any UN resolution on Syria that it finds unacceptable, after demanding any…

Twenty-five Chinese workers kidnapped in Egypt were freed Wednesday, a day after they were taken hostage by Bedouin tribesmen, Xinhua…

ALGIERS — Algeria's government will ignite an explosion of unrest if it tries to rig a parliamentary election in May…

ISMAILIA — Bedouin in Sinai kidnapped 25 mostly Chinese cement factory workers on Tuesday, demanding that authorities free fellow tribesmen…