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  • Egypt's Sisi moves nearer to presidential bid

    Egypt's army chief, Field Marshall Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is to officially announce he will run for the presidency, state media has reported. According to the reports, in comments on his Facebook page on Tuesday, Sisi said: "No one who loves his nation and loves Egyptians can ignore the desire of so many of them, or turn his back on their will. &ldquo.. More

  • Netanyahu pushes back against Obama diplomacy

    Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has bluntly told Barack Obama that he would never compromise on his country's security even as the US president sought to reassure him on nuclear diplomacy towards Iran and pressure him on Middle East peace talks. In a White House meeting on Monday, overshadowed by the Ukraine crisis, the two leaders avoided.. More

  • Egypt police get 10 years for killing blogger

    Two policemen have been sentenced to 10 years in jail for killing an Egyptian blogger more than three years after the incident, which was one of the events that inspired the 18-day revolt in 2011. Policemen Mahmoud Salah Mahmoud and Awad Ismail Suleiman were accused of manslaughter and of torturing Khaled Said in June 2010 after unlawfully arresting.. More

  • Netanyahu pushes back against Obama diplomacy

    Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has bluntly told Barack Obama that he would never compromise on his country's security even as the US president sought to reassure him on nuclear diplomacy towards Iran and pressure him on Middle East peace talks. In a White House meeting on Monday, overshadowed by the Ukraine crisis, the two leaders avoided.. More

  • Russia says Yanukovich asked for intervention

    Vitaly Churkin, Russia's envoy to the UN, has told an emergency meeting of the Security Council that Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine's ousted president, requested Russia's armed forces to enter Ukraine and establish law and order. Reading a statement on Monday he said was from the fugitive president, Churkin said the request came because "as the legitimately.. More

  • UN warns of food crisis in CAR

    A food crisis is looming in the Central African Republic after nearly a year of violence, a UN humanitarian official warned on Sunday. Funds pledged to help the crisis in January have not materialized, Abdou Dieng, the United Nations' humanitarian coordinator said, with only one-fifth of the $500m promised at a donor conference in Brussels coming in.. More

  • PM says Ukraine on the 'brink of disaster'

    Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has warned his crisis-hit country is on the "brink of disaster", accusing Russia of declaring war on his nation. "If President [Vladimir] Putin wants to be the president who started a war between two neighboring and friendly countries, between Ukraine and Russia, he has reached his target within.. More

  • Russian troops take over Ukraine's Crimea region

    Russian troops took over the strategic Crimean peninsula Saturday without firing a shot. The newly installed government in Kiev was powerless to react, and despite calls by U.S. President Barack Obama for Russia to pull back its forces, Western governments had few options to counter Russia's military moves. Russian President Vladimir Putin sought and.. More

  • Report: Israeli army using excessive force

    Israel has killed dozens of Palestinian civilians in the West Bank over the past three years showing a "callous disregard for human life," a report by Amnesty International says. The report, released on Wednesday and entitled Trigger-happy: Israel's Use of Excessive Force in the West Bank, documents the killing of 45 Palestinians and wounding.. More

  • Israel strikes area on Lebanon-Syria border

    Israeli jets have bombarded an area on the Lebanon-Syria border, reportedly hitting a Hezbollah position, a Lebanese security source and a Syrian NGO said, "Two Israeli raids hit a Hezbollah target on the border of Lebanon and Syria," the source told AFP news agency. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the target was a Hezbollah.. More

  • Russian court sentences anti-Putin protesters

    A Russian court has sentenced seven people to up to four years in jail for a 2012 protest against Vladimir Putin, sparking riots outside the court and mass arrests. Andrei Belousov, a 22-year-old student, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail. Investigators accused Belousov of throwing an "unidentified yellow object of spherical shape".. More

  • Reports: Iraq signs arms deal with Iran

    Iran has signed a deal to sell Iraq arms and ammunition worth $195m, according to documents seen by Reuters news agency - a move that would break a UN embargo on weapons sales by Iran. The agreement was reached at the end of November, the documents showed, just weeks after Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, returned from Washington, where he lobbied.. More

  • Deadly car bomb hits Syrian border town

    An explosives-laden vehicle has exploded and killed several people near a field hospital in the Syrian town of Atmeh, near the border with Turkey, activists said. At least nine people were killed by the car bomb on Sunday, the Reuters news agency reported, citing Syrian activists on the ground. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.. More

  • US killer shot dead in Israeli prison

    Israeli special forces have raided a prison in central Israel after an inmate stole a gun, shot several guards and barricaded himself inside the compound, killing the notorious prisoner who was serving time for a gruesome murder carried out in the United States. Police identified the inmate as Samuel Sheinbein, an American who fled to Israel after.. More

  • Israel renews concern over Iran nuclear talks

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed concern at the progress of talks between world powers and Iran, saying that Tehran still sought to acquire a nuclear arms capability. "Iran, in fact, is getting everything and giving virtually nothing," Netanyahu told the cabinet on Sunday on the eve of a visit by German Chancellor Angela.. More