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An influential body representing Egyptian judges will urge its members not to supervise a 15 December referendum on a draft…

  Sea levels are rising 60 percent faster than UN projections, threatening low-lying areas from Miami to the Maldives, a…

KUWAIT ­— Kuwaitis elected a new parliament that is expected to be more cooperative with the government than its predecessor,…

North Korea said it would carry out its second rocket launch of 2012 as its youthful leader Kim Jong-un flexes…

Israel said on Sunday it was withholding this month's transfer of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority, after the United…

A top aide to President Mohamed Morsy, who quit when the leader issued a decree expanding his powers, has joined…

An Islamist-led assembly raced through approval of a new constitution for Egypt on Friday to end a crisis over President…

Syrian rebels battled forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad just outside Damascus on Thursday, forcing the closure of the main…

Bombs in two majority Shia Muslim cities in southern Iraq killed 28 people on Thursday, police and hospital sources said.…

The UN General Assembly is set to implicitly recognize a sovereign state of Palestine on Thursday despite threats by the…