A car exploded in central Cairo Monday after colliding with a microbus, injuring 13 people, the Egyptian Health Ministry said. Reuters reporters heard a loud blast in the area and saw a car on the side of the road completely destroyed, with bits of twisted and punctured metal scattered...

Iraq's election commission said it had completed a manual recount of votes from a parliamentary election held in May, after deciding to cut the process short in Baghdad, state television said Monday. The commission canceled the recount in the remaining half of the capital, the broadcaster...

Iran's Central Bank has allowed money exchange offices to resume work, ending a ban imposed in March amid the country's economic troubles. The bank's governor, Abdolnaser Hemmati, told state TV late Sunday that "money exchangers are allowed to sell and buy foreign currencies" once...

Forty-four people were shot across the Midwestern US city of Chicago Sunday, US media reported, with five killed in a wave of violence police branded "totally unacceptable." Chicago Police chief of patrol Fred Waller told a press conference Sunday afternoon some of the shootings were...