63% of Israelis back swap deal to free Shalit
JERUSALEM: Nearly two-thirds of Israelis back a prisoner exchange deal which would see 1,000 Palestinians inmates released in order to free captured soldier Gilad Shalit, a poll showed on Tuesday.…
Iran deputy foreign minister resigns amid pressure
TEHRAN: Iran's newly appointed deputy foreign minister has resigned under pressure from hard-liners who view him as part of a movement seeking to weaken the role of Iran's powerful…
NATO says lost unmanned helicopter in Libya
BRUSSELS: NATO said it lost an unmanned helicopter drone over Libya on Tuesday but denied a Libyan state television report that it was a manned Apache aircraft. A NATO statement…
Syria’s Assad orders new amnesty as huge crowd rallies
DAMASCUS: President Bashar Al-Assad on Tuesday ordered a new general amnesty, a day after an offer of "national dialogue" to end Syria's deadly unrest and as a huge crowd…
22 killed in suicide car bombings south of Baghdad
BAGHDAD: Suicide bombers detonated two explosives-laden vehicles early Tuesday near a government compound by a southern Iraqi governor's home, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens, Iraqi officials said.…
Tunisians dissatisfied with quick Ben Ali verdict
TUNIS: Tunisian authorities were under fire Tuesday for their high-speed sentencing in absentia of deposed strongmen Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his wife to 35 years in prison for…
Panel advises rejecting challenge to Egypt’s TMG
By Edmund Blair /Reuters CAIRO: A judicial panel has recommended that a court reject a legal challenge that sought to scrap the sale of state land to real estate developer Talaat…
University professors to hold an open sit-in starting July 3
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: A coalition of faculty members at Egyptian public universities decided Monday to hold a nation-wide on-campus open sit-in starting July 3, to push for the resignation of…
Picasso work loaned to West Bank goes on display
A Palestinian art academy on Monday put on display a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece, the first of its kind in the West Bank. Picasso's 1943 "Buste de Femme" is…
Silence less golden in movies with talking, texts
It seems like such a quaint notion: Folks would go to the movie theater, buy their tickets at the box office, then sit down, shut up and pay attention for…
