(Reuters) - Jewish settlers threw stones at the cars of a U.S. diplomatic delegation which came to inspect vandalism to nearby Palestinian-owned trees in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Israeli police said. The U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv and consulate in Jerusalem had no...
(Reuters) - Two of three Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt have applied to be deported under a new law after the country's highest court ordered their retrial but did not free them as their families had hoped. Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy...
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz is suffering from pneumonia and temporarily needed help to breath through a tube on Friday but the procedure was successful and his condition was now stable, the royal court said. The elderly monarch was admitted to the...
(Reuters) - Egyptian border troops shot dead a Palestinian youth as he tried to cross illegally from the Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian and Egyptian sources said. Cairo has been clamping down on its Sinai frontier with Gaza, seeing a security threat in the Islamist...
(Reuters) - In a move that heightened tensions with Israel and could lead to cuts in U.S. aid, the Palestinians on Friday delivered to U.N. headquarters documents on joining the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and other international treaties. The chief...
Ninety people have been killed so far in clashes that erupted Monday – and remain ongoing – between Burundian troops and militants from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Burundi's northwestern Cibitoke province, a Burundian security source has said. "The clashes have...
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Moscow's Manezh Square hours after Tuesday's verdict against government critic Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg, , an Anadolu Agency correspondent said. During the "unauthorized" gathering, which was called for via...
Scores of Palestinians on Friday suffered temporary asphyxiation when Israeli army forces forcibly dispersed anti-occupation protesters in parts of the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces fired live ammunition and teargas to disperse Palestinians who had gathered in several...
Thousands of people across Sweden rallied on Friday against a series of arson attacks on mosques in the past week. At least 3,200 people gathered in Sweden's three largest cities -- Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo -- on Friday against racism and Islamophobia. ...
Turkey had the second-cheapest natural gas in Europe during the first half of 2014, according to European data. The gas price per kilowatt hour in Turkey was €0.033 ($0.039) for households, and €0.024 ($0.029) for industry in the first...
Some 19,000 chickens have been culled in Hong Kong over the last two days after the H7 bird flu strain was discovered in a live batch imported from southern China. The market where the chickens were located will be closed for three weeks for disinfection, public broadcaster...
Throughout 2014, Libya remained embroiled in political infighting that evolved into a violent power struggle between two rival seats of government, throwing the fractious North African country's future into uncertainty. Oil-rich Libya has been dogged by political...
At least ten Israeli soldiers committed suicide in 2014, including four who took part in a devastating military onslaught on the Gaza Strip this summer, Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Thursday. According to the newspaper, which conducted the survey, three more soldiers...
A magnitude-5.2 earthquake hit the southern Iranian province of Bushehr on Thursday. The epicenter of the quake was in Boshkan district, the Iranian Seismological Center said. No casualties have been reported so far. On Tuesday,...
Tragedy struck New Year’s celebrations in Shanghai when 35 people were killed and 42 others injured in a stampede at a scenic waterfront area in China’s most populous city. Among those who lost heir lives were 25 females ranging from 16 to 36 in...
At least 100 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants were killed in the southern part of Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraq’s defense ministry said. Air-assisted riot police and Shiite volunteers carried out the operation, according to a written statement from Iraq’s defense...
(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been voted in as head of the right-wing Likud party, overcoming his first hurdle toward winning a fourth term in office in a March general election, results of a party primary published on Thursday showed. Israeli...
(Reuters) - Indian border forces killed four Pakistani interior-ministry troops on New Year's Eve, ending a year in which clashes between the nuclear-armed neighbors have escalated and hopes for reconciliation faded. Wednesday's incident, on the international border in...
One hundred and eighteen journalists and media staff were killed around the world in 2014, with Pakistan and Syria the deadliest countries, the International Federation of Journalists said Wednesday. The IFJ said those killed, 13 more than in 2013, were either targeted for their work or...
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's elderly King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz was admitted to a hospital on Wednesday for medical tests, state media said, citing a royal court statement, after he suffered what one source described as breathing difficulties. King Abdullah, who took...
