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Egyptian soccer fans riot against Algeria
Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted outside the Algerian Embassy in Cairo, smashing cars and shop windows, in an escalating row between the two countries over a bitter World Cup rivalry.
updated: Nov 20th - 3:31pm
Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted outside the Algerian Embassy in Cairo, smashing cars and shop windows, in an escalating row between the two countries over a bitter World Cup rivalry.
updated: Nov 20th - 3:31pm
Yemen: Somali pirates hijack Panamanian cargo ship
Yemen's coast guard says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian cargo ship in the treacherous Gulf of Aden between the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa.
updated: Nov 20th - 2:26pm
Yemen's coast guard says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian cargo ship in the treacherous Gulf of Aden between the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa.
updated: Nov 20th - 2:26pm
Palestinians to set new date for elections
Palestinian officials announced Friday that a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone the January vote, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the voting.
updated: Nov 20th - 12:23pm
Palestinian officials announced Friday that a new date for parliamentary and presidential elections will be set next month now that President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone the January vote, though the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers maintain they will boycott the voting.
updated: Nov 20th - 12:23pm
Iraq cleric's aide urges end to political crisis
A top aide to Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader on Friday urged the country's fractious political blocs to resolve a crisis over a key election law that threatens to delay national polls planned for January.
updated: Nov 20th - 10:55am
A top aide to Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader on Friday urged the country's fractious political blocs to resolve a crisis over a key election law that threatens to delay national polls planned for January.
updated: Nov 20th - 10:55am
Iran to launch satellite on its own by late 2011
Iran plans to launch a communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, a top Iranian official said Friday, after Italy and Russia declined to put it into orbit.
updated: Nov 20th - 9:40am
Iran plans to launch a communications satellite by late 2011 with no outside help, a top Iranian official said Friday, after Italy and Russia declined to put it into orbit.
updated: Nov 20th - 9:40am
200 Web sites spread al-Qaida's message in English
Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West. They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of English readers and often feature charismatic clerics like Anwar al-Awlaki, who exchanged dozens of e-mails with the Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort Hood shootings.
updated: Nov 20th - 1:28am
Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West. They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of English readers and often feature charismatic clerics like Anwar al-Awlaki, who exchanged dozens of e-mails with the Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort Hood shootings.
updated: Nov 20th - 1:28am
Lebanese diva accused of singing racist song
A famous Lebanese pop singer, who normally stirs controversy for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, has now been accused of singing a song with racist lyrics that compares black Egyptians to monkeys.
updated: Nov 19th - 3:39pm
A famous Lebanese pop singer, who normally stirs controversy for her seductive dresses and provocative dancing, has now been accused of singing a song with racist lyrics that compares black Egyptians to monkeys.
updated: Nov 19th - 3:39pm
Hassan Nasrallah re-elected as Hezbollah leader
The militant Hezbollah group announced Thursday that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as the Shiite Muslim group's leader for a sixth term.
updated: Nov 19th - 11:36am
The militant Hezbollah group announced Thursday that Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as the Shiite Muslim group's leader for a sixth term.
updated: Nov 19th - 11:36am
Israeli aircraft hit Gaza after rocket attacks
Israeli aircraft struck a weapons-manufacturing facility and two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, in response to recent rocket attacks on Israel, the military said.
updated: Nov 19th - 2:50am
Israeli aircraft struck a weapons-manufacturing facility and two smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, in response to recent rocket attacks on Israel, the military said.
updated: Nov 19th - 2:50am
Tiny survivor doesn't remember Mumbai attack
Moshe Holtzberg celebrated his third birthday on Wednesday the way many Jewish children do _ he got his first haircut. He appeared not to recall the tragic events of a year ago, when his parents were killed in a terror attack in Mumbai, India.
updated: Nov 18th - 5:56pm
Moshe Holtzberg celebrated his third birthday on Wednesday the way many Jewish children do _ he got his first haircut. He appeared not to recall the tragic events of a year ago, when his parents were killed in a terror attack in Mumbai, India.
updated: Nov 18th - 5:56pm
Iran brushes aside UN nuclear deal
Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday said his country would not export its enriched uranium for further processing, brushing aside the latest U.N. plan aimed at preventing Tehran from potentially building nuclear weapons.
updated: Nov 18th - 3:33pm
Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday said his country would not export its enriched uranium for further processing, brushing aside the latest U.N. plan aimed at preventing Tehran from potentially building nuclear weapons.
updated: Nov 18th - 3:33pm
Hamas-linked group offers cash for Israeli capture
A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier.
updated: Nov 18th - 10:44am
A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier.
updated: Nov 18th - 10:44am
Death of an Iran prison doctor raises suspicion
An Iranian doctor who went public with reports of tortured protesters he treated at Tehran's most feared detention facility dies, amid conflicting reports of a heart attack, a car accident or suicide _ raising opposition accusations that the 26-year-old was killed.
updated: Nov 18th - 9:57am
An Iranian doctor who went public with reports of tortured protesters he treated at Tehran's most feared detention facility dies, amid conflicting reports of a heart attack, a car accident or suicide _ raising opposition accusations that the 26-year-old was killed.
updated: Nov 18th - 9:57am
Iran sentences 5 to death in postelection turmoil
Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday.
updated: Nov 17th - 3:25pm
Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday.
updated: Nov 17th - 3:25pm
Israel army punishes troops for settlement protest
The Israeli army punished six soldiers, sending two to prison, for protesting the army's demolition of structures at an unauthorized settler outpost in the West Bank, the military said Tuesday.
updated: Nov 17th - 2:17pm
The Israeli army punished six soldiers, sending two to prison, for protesting the army's demolition of structures at an unauthorized settler outpost in the West Bank, the military said Tuesday.
updated: Nov 17th - 2:17pm
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