(Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped a French woman and her Yemeni driver in the centre of Yemen's capital, Sanaa, on Tuesday morning while she was heading to work, security sources said. The unidentified gunmen intercepted the vehicle on 45th Street in central Sanaa and led the...

(Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has signed off on an anti-terrorism law that gives authorities more sweeping powers to ban groups on charges ranging from harming national unity to disrupting public order. The move, announced in the official Gazette on...

(Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Tuesday acquitted two top Hosni Mubarak-era officials of graft charges at a retrial, judicial sources said, a day after a prominent activist was sentenced to five years in jail. Former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, and former Interior Minister...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the military and a Palestinian hospital official said. Residents of the Deheishe refugee camp in Bethlehem said Palestinians threw stones at Israeli...