(Reuters) - Egypt's high court on Tuesday overturned the only remaining conviction against Hosni Mubarak, ordering a retrial in the embezzlement case and opening the way for the ousted former president's possible release. Mubarak, 86, was sentenced to three years in prison in May for...

(Reuters) - A former aide to ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood was released on Sunday for health reasons after 18 months in detention without charge, relatives said. Khaled al-Qazzaz, Mursi's former foreign affairs secretary, was arrested in July 2013...

 At least 59 people were killed in a head-on collision between an oil tanker and a passenger bus near Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi early Sunday morning, officials said. The bus caught fire immediately after being hit head-on by the tanker loaded with...

Turkey will “never close its door to incomers” the country’s prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has said. Davutoglu was speaking after a meeting in Ankara with Thorbjorn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, on Wednesday. Prime Ministry sources said the...