An Egyptian female pop singer has been convicted of promoting debauchery in a racy video clip and sentenced to two years in prison. The Cairo court also ordered Shaimaa Ahmed, better known by her stage name Shima, to pay a fine of 10,000 pounds (about $560). Shima appears in the...
An Israeli man was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday for an arson attack at the church built where Christians believe Jesus performed the miracle of loaves and fishes. The Israeli district court in the Galilee city of Nazareth had earlier found Yinon Reuveni guilty of...
Human rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday that Iran's courts had "run roughshod over the rule of law" by confirming the death sentence of an academic accused of espionage during nuclear talks with world powers. Lawyers for Ahmadreza Djalali, an emergency medicine specialist...
Two Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters riding on a motorcycle in Gaza were killed in an explosion Tuesday, health officials said. Israel's military denied accounts by local residents that they were killed in an air strike. Violence along the Israel-Gaza border has flared since U.S....
