The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has set a number of conditions for resuming the Middle East peace talks, Al Arabiya reported citing a message that will be delivered to the Israelis by Jordan. Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Jouda is sche
Polling stations closed in Iran’s parliamentary election on Friday after voting was extended to let more people vote, in a poll likely to be won by supporters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. State radio said polling stations closed at 11
Gaza’s top political leader blamed Egypt on Friday for causing a power crisis that has triggered lengthy blackouts in the Palestinian enclave, laying bare tensions between his Islamist group Hamas and Cairo. The outages started in mid-February, lea
A Moroccan court on Friday sentenced a man to six months in jail after he raised the Israeli flag over his home to attract the attention of local authorities and protest the disconnection of electricity and water supplies to his home, Moroccan media repor
US President Barack Obama says it would be unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon but warns against any pre-emptive attack.
ICRC president calls obstruction of emergency mission to Bab Amr "unacceptable" as reports of violence continue.
A Red Cross convoy is refused permission to deliver supplies to the Baba Amr district of Homs, which has been subjected to a month-long bombardment by Syrian forces.
Prosecutors at the UN-backed tribunal investigating the killing of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri want to expand the charges against the accused.
African Union-backed Somali government troops attacked and seized positions of hardline Shabaab insurgents in the war-torn capital Mogadishu on Friday, officials said. An artillery barrage at daybreak poured down on a northeast district --