TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan authorities are processing a request from Britain to extradite the brother of the bomber who killed 22 people in Manchester in May, but no decision has been taken yet, a government spokesman said on Thursday. The armed group holding the brother said that if...

Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman responded Wednesday to an allegation of sexual harassment by a teenage intern on a film set over 30 years ago. “I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I...

Iraqi forces captured Thursday the Akkas gas field from Daesh (ISIS), Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi told reporters in Baghdad. Iraqi forces launched last month an offensive to oust the militant group from the last area still under its control in Iraq, on the border with Syria, where the...

Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of Ramallah Thursday to protest on the 100th anniversary of Britain's Balfour Declaration, which helped lead to Israel's creation and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas used the occasion to denounce the...