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Israel seals home of Palestinian accused of planning attack

Israeli forces have sealed off the West Bank home of a Palestinian accused of helping plan an attack in Tel Aviv that left four Israelis dead, the Israeli army and residents said Thursday. The army said the home of Younes Zein, 22, in Yatta, south of the flashpoint city of Hebron, was sealed...

Mounting suicide toll rings alarm bells in Tunisia

Six years since a young Tunisian stallholder set himself on fire, triggering revolutions across the Arab world, his country’s suicide rate is surging over economic and social woes, experts say. Mohammad Bouazizi, who self-immolated on Dec. 17, 2010, in protest at unemployment and police...

Small explosion outside French embassy in Athens, police say

Unidentified attackers on a motorcycle threw an explosive device at the French embassy in central Athens on Thursday, wounding a guard, police said, in an attack that came less than a week before U.S. President Barack Obama visits the city. "It was probably a hand grenade," one official told...