Lebanon's prime minister-designateMustapha Adib said Thursday he was extending efforts to strike a deal on an emergency cabinet line-up despite missing a French deadline. "I am fully aware that we do not have the luxury of time," he said in a brief statement after meeting President Michel...

Scores protested outside the French embassy in Iraq's capital Baghdad on Thursday to condemn Paris-based magazine Charlie Hebdo's decision to republish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. The satirical weekly reprinted the controversial images to mark the start of the trial earlier this month...

The Emirates airline group unveiled plans Thursday to produce kosher meals in keeping with Jewish dietary rules, two days after the UAE and Israel signed a deal to normalise ties. Dubai-based Emirates, the largest airline in the Middle East, is expected to start flying to the Jewish state...

 Two Palestinian travel bloggers are promoting local Palestinian tourism in the West Bank as an act of defiance against Israeli occupation. The West Bank is scattered with sites holy to Christians, Muslims and Jews, and its mountainous landscape offers breathtaking views from the hills...