(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) - 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...

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...