Do you want to remain young always? The text inset on the left is part of what Sathya Sai Baba said on Mahashivaratri 2000. It was not very long before he had a second hip fracture, in 2003. Though operated
The Lebanese army moved today into Bastara Farm, the only one of the occupied Shebaa Farms that the Israeli army evacuated when it pulled out of South Lebanon in 2000.
Beirut, Lebanon - Finally, Lebanon has a cabinet, coined the "national unity government". The agreement came Friday after the ruling majority conceded their stance against the representation of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party member Ali Qanso.
Beirut, Lebanon - Premier Fouad Siniora on Friday set his cabinet's mission as managing differences among the various factions through state institutions and setting the stage for the 2009 parliamentary elections.
A tiny woman at an advanced stage of pregnancy, wide-eyed with recent pain, walks South Sudan's shining new maternity ward clutching two pieces of paper stapled together. She looks no more than 16. Ateino Maclean, one of only two fully
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi reached a tentative deal with UN chief Ban Ki-moon Thursday on setting up an independent panel to probe the slaying of former Premier Benazir Bhutto, the world body said. A UN statement said broad
Turkish police have detained 10 people in connection with an armed attack at the US Consulate in Istanbul this week in which six people were killed, the city's Governor Muammer Guler said Friday. "So far, 10 people have been taken
After an extended debate that turned into a row, the indictment in the "Ergenekon terrorist organization" case is ready. Reportedly some 2,000 pages long, the indictment will attempt to prove that a criminal network has been plotting to overthrow the
A court in Morocco fined Al-Jazeera's Rabat bureau chief on Friday for spreading "false information" about police brutality, but stopped short of dishing out a jail term. The Qatar-based television network reported last month that a June 7 protest in
A three-story building in Egypt's Nile Delta collapsed and killed five people, including 7-year-old twins, the country's official Middle East News Agency reported on Friday. Five other people were injured when the building, described as an "ancient" one in the
Gunmen killed an aid worker in the Somali capital on Friday, the latest in a string of attacks against humanitarian staff in the conflict-torn nation, a colleague said. Mohamed Muhamoud Keyre, deputy head of Mogadishu-based, German-funded Daryeel Bulsho Guud (DBG),
Egyptian authorities on Friday found 250 kilograms of explosives in the Sinai Desert which they believe were probably destined for the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, a security official said. The cache was found in the Sheikh Zuwayed region near the border
The United States warned Khartoum Friday about any possible retaliation against UN peacekeepers in Darfur as international prosecutors prepared to seek an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. The State Department confirmed reports that International Criminal Court chief prosecutor
Israeli police have new suspicions over the finances of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, they said on Friday after questioning him for a third time over graft allegations that have prompted calls for his resignation. Olmert is suspected of fraud by
Iran said Friday that its top nuclear negotiator and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana would hold their next round of talks on ending the nuclear standoff in a little more than week, despite Western concern over the test-firing of
Hamas has arrested four more members of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades for firing rockets at Israel or trying to do so, a member of the militant group ruling the Gaza Strip said on Friday. Four Brigades members "were arrested in Beit
Exactly two years ago today, Hizbullah fighters crossed the Blue Line and captured two Israeli soldiers after an ambush. While the location and timing of their mission had been a closely guarded secret, its inevitability and its purpose had been
Lebanon announced a 30-member national unity government on Friday after almost five weeks of disputes over the distribution of portfolios. The lineup was announced in a decree signed by President Michel Sleiman and Prime Minister Fouad Siniora following a short
According to a report published Friday in the Israeli daily Haaretz, top Israeli defense officials have said that Israel should recommence diplomatic efforts to end alleged Syrian arms smuggling to Hizbullah. Although Israel and Syria are currently engaged in indirect,
