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  • Khamenei: US wants regime change in Iran

    Iran's supreme leader has said the US would overthrow the Iranian government if it could, adding that the country had a "controlling and meddlesome" attitude towards the Islamic Republic. In a speech to mark the 35th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution on Saturday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the US is fundamentally Iran's enemy,.. More

  • Left-wing outsider to run for Egypt president

    Hamdeen Sabahi, a left-wing Egyptian politician, has announced that he will be running for president in the forthcoming election. Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the army chief, is widely expected to contest and win the race, scheduled for mid-April, although he is yet to announce his candidacy. Sabahi, 59, came third in the 2012 presidential.. More

  • Aid convoy to Syria's Homs comes under attack

    An aid convoy has come under attack in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, threatening a UN-led operation to bring food and medicine to 2,500 people and evacuate civilians trapped by fighting between rebels and government forces. Saturday's violence threatens to unravel a humanitarian deal for Homs which was the first concrete result of talks launched.. More

  • Iran and IAEA resume nuclear talks

    Iran has resumed talks on its nuclear program with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the official IRNA news agency said, in discussions expected to broach sensitive military-related issues. The day-long discussions with the Vienna-based agency will build on a framework deal agreed in November that required Tehran to take six practical.. More

  • US ‘condemns’ Syria regime barrel bomb raids

    US Secretary of State John Kerry has hit out the "brutality" of the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad for its sustained barrel bomb campaign. In a written statement released on Tuesday, Kerry said use of the bombs was reminding the world of the Assad regime's "true colors." "It is the latest barbaric act of a regime.. More

  • Israel gives permits for 550 settlement homes

    Israel has approved plans for more than 550 new homes in three settlement neighborhoods of occupied East Jerusalem. The Jerusalem municipality said its planning committee had granted permits to build 386 units in Har Homa, 136 units in Neve Yaakov and 36 units in Pisgat Zeev; built on land taken by Israel in 1967. Israel captured East Jerusalem and.. More

  • UN condemns Vatican child abuse cover-up

    The Vatican was denounced on Wednesday by a UN human rights committee for failing to prevent priests raping and molesting tens of thousands of children over decades and for adopting policies that allowed abuse to continue once detected. There was not, the committee said, adequate provision to ensure that cases like Ireland's Magdalene laundries scandal.. More

  • Two rockets hit Baghdad's Green Zone, car bombs kill 10

    Rockets hit Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone", home to the prime minister's office and several Western embassies, on Tuesday and car bombs elsewhere in the capital killed 10 people, police and medical sources said. One soldier was killed in the rare attack on the Green Zone, which is likely to heighten concerns about Iraq's ability.. More

  • Syrian forces hit mosque with crude bomb, kill 11

    Men pull a girl from the rubble and haul her onto a dirty sheet of plastic, while another child, coated in white dust save for a red streak of blood from his nose, lies with his crushed leg dangling off a gurney — the grisly aftermath from the dropping of a crude "barrel bomb" by Syrian forces on the city of Aleppo. The bombing —.. More

  • Pakistan-Taliban peace talks delayed

    Negotiators representing the Pakistani government and Taliban will not meet for preliminary peace talks that were meant to be taking place following a spate of killings. Two teams, nominated by the government and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), were due to gather in Islamabad at 2:00pm (0900 GMT) to chart a preliminary "roadmap" for.. More

  • Dozens reported killed in Syria air raids

    The Syrian regime has extended its intense aerial campaign against opposition-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo, conducting a series of raids and killing at least 26 people, according to a monitoring group. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that 12 men, 11 children and three women were killed when Syrian army helicopters.. More

  • Funeral for Palestinians after a decade

    More than a decade after they died, Israel is returning about 30 bodies of Palestinian assailants, including that of Ayat al-Akhras, who blew herself up outside a busy Jerusalem supermarket in 2002 and killed two Israelis. Israel has returned the remains of Palestinian attackers from time to time during the decades of conflict, sometimes as part of.. More

  • Syria air raids kill dozens in Aleppo

    Syrian regime forces have attacked Aleppo with barrel bombs for a second day, with scores of people killed in 48 hours, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. At least 36 people were killed in Sunday's attacks on Syria's second city, the London-based monitoring group said after reporting 85 deaths the previous day. Regime forces targeted.. More

  • Hundreds protest against Israeli settlements

    Hundreds of Palestinians accompanied by Israeli activists have occupied about a dozen abandoned houses near Jericho in the occupied West Bank. The protest by nearly 300 people on Friday was aimed at denouncing the repeated refusal of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dismantle settlements illegal under international law and agree to a pullout.. More

  • Fighting continues as Syria talks wind up

    Syrian opposition activists say military helicopters have dropped barrels packed with explosives in the regime’s latest air raids on opposition-held areas of the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 23 people including a family trapped in a burning car. In Aleppo, the raids with barrel bombs, as the crude weapons are known, have flattened.. More