Mid-East
Palestinians chip away at male divorce monopoly
For decades, Palestinian women seeking to divorce their husbands risked years of miserable, expensive litigation or lengthy domestic battles as they begged their spouses for permission to leave.
New Morsi team hints at Brotherhood-Salafi rapprochement
After much speculation and anticipation, President Mohamed Morsy announced his 21-member presidential team.
Bangladeshi’s hopes of a bright future in Libya end in tragedy
Shahjahan Mia was an extremly poor Bangladeshi whose only aim was to find work.
A Syrian army deserter tells his story
From a safe house in Turkey, working his way through one cigarette after another, Hassan Abu Ali told how he escaped from Syria.
Saturday, 01 - September 2012
The Israeli forces Friday imposed military closure on the West Bank village of Al-Nabi Saleh to thwart anti-Jewish settlement protest.
Saturday, 01 - September 2012
Lebanese women hold pictures of their relatives who are thought to be held in Syrian prisons or missing since the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) during a sit-in to demand their release and the knowledge of their whereabouts outside the UN offices in Beirut.
Saturday, 01 - September 2012
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called on Iran to free all its political prisoners, in a speech obtained by AFP Friday and delivered in Tehran on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement summit.
Saturday, 01 - September 2012
At least 25 shells fired by Syrian troops during the night struck a Lebanese Christian village on the northern border, wounding one person and causing damage, officials said.
Saturday, 01 - September 2012
Egypt’s Cabinet has agreed to allow foreigners to invest in the Sinai Peninsula, Legal Affairs Minister Mohamed Mahsoub told reporters.
Saturday, 01 - September 2012
The father of American journalist Austin Tice, who went missing while working in one of Syria’s most volatile regions, said he believed his son is alive and being detained by the Syrian government.
Saturday, 01 - September 2012
Iran was under diplomatic pressure Friday after a UN watchdog report said it had expanded its nuclear program and was hampering inspections, and UN chief Ban Ki-moon in Tehran called on it to release political prisoners.
Saturday, 01 - September 2012
Tunisia’s presidency said Friday it has extended the country’s state of emergency by one month until September 30, the seventh such extension since it first came into force on January 14, 2011.
