Tunisia plans to increase support for poor families and needy people by some $70 million, a government minister said on Saturday, after protests broke out in the North African country. Protests, some of them violent, were held on Monday against austerity measures such as increases of...

The Hamas Movement said Saturday it would not participate in a meeting of Palestinian leaders to debate responses to the controversial U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The decision not to take part in the meeting to begin late Sunday is a further setback to...

Tunisian protesters burned down a regional national security headquarters near the Algerian border, prompting authorities to send in troops after police retreated, witnesses said, as unrest over prices and taxes raged on nationwide. But the government, under pressure to cut a ballooning...

Libya's navy says some 100 migrants are believed missing at sea and that at least 279 others have been rescued off the Libyan coast. Wednesday's statement says the migrants, mostly Africans, had embarked on the perilous trip across the Mediterranean in several vessels. Those missing...