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Several dozen Palestinians on Wednesday blocked staff from entering UN offices in Ramallah to demand that UN chief Ban Ki-moon…

The United Nations is cooperating with the Egyptian government, local NGOs and media institutions to launch a program aimed at…

BEIRUT — UN observers struggling to shore up a shaky cease-fire in Syria visited an embattled neighborhood in the central…

The United Nations has offered to help Egypt recover its “smuggled and frozen” overseas funds taken from the country by…

DAMASCUS, Syria — A suicide bomber blew himself up across the street from a mosque in the Syrian capital Friday,…

An Egyptian bill that would tighten control over non-governmental organizations could deal a serious blow to human rights and freedoms…

BEIRUT — Syrian forces shot dead four civilians on a bus on Wednesday and fighting raged near Damascus, dissidents said,…

JUBA/KHARTOUM — South Sudan said on Friday it would withdraw its troops from the disputed Heglig oil region more than…

Syrian troops shelled Saturday two rebel-held neighborhoods in the central city of Homs in an apparent violation of an internationally…