(Reuters) - Asian stocks were firm on Tuesday after China's latest step to prop up its faltering economy lifted global equities, while the euro was pressured on growing worries a cash-strapped Greece may default on its debt. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan...

(Reuters) - The European Union proposed doubling the size of its Mediterranean search and rescue operations on Monday, as the first bodies were brought ashore of some 900 people feared killed in the deadliest shipwreck while trying to reach Europe. Three other rescue operations were...

(By Ali Eid; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Hauran, southern region of Syria, has never been a host for extreme or deviated principles, as people there do not need militants to teach them Islamic and religious principles. However, what is going on these days between the Free...

Dozens of inmates have escaped from jail in Sudan's western Darfur region following clashes with prison guards, police said Wednesday. One inmate was killed and four policemen injured in clashes that erupted on Tuesday in the main prison in Zalingei, capital of Central Darfur State,...