Egyptian security forces at the site of a car bombing on a security headquarters in the Sinai town of El Tur on Monday.
The lethal conflict between Egypt’s military-backed government and its Islamist opponents grew on Monday, with an expansion of attacks against government targets.
Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, apprehended by American forces this weekend in Tripoli, Libya, was enjoying being home with his family for the first time in years, his son said in an interview.
A captured leader of Al Qaeda, Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, is reportedly being questioned by American intelligence specialists on a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea.
Five years after a financial crisis in the United States helped spread a deep global recession, much of the world again fears collateral damage.
In the highest-profile trial of a Greek politician since 1991, a former defense minister was convicted along with 16 others, including his wife and daughter.
The Uighurs, a Muslim people who make up the largest ethnic group in the Xinjiang region, complain of barriers to employment and the free exercise of religion.
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority expressed optimism that a peace agreement could be reached in the nine months allotted to the current round of talks.
Rabbi Yosef was a fiery figure in Israeli politics who, as the leader of the Shas Party, fought for the interests of Jews of North African and Middle Eastern origin.
Carmine Mainella is among the few still practicing his trade, arrotino, or sharpener of items like knives and scissors.
Carmine Mainella, who has sharpened knives, scissors and other metal items in Rome since 1955, is one of the last members of a profession on the decline.
In a strongly worded statement, the leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on Tuesday suggested that the global trade talks, known as the Doha round, risked collapse.
The specialists will be sent to Syria over the next eight months to carry out the extremely hazardous task of destroying its chemical weapons arsenal, the United Nations secretary general said Monday.
President Dilma Rousseff called a Canadian intelligence agency’s surveillance of Brazil’s mining and energy ministry and a top Brazilian diplomat “unacceptable.”
The end of the inquiry into allegations that former President Nicolas Sarkozy had manipulated an heiress into financing his campaign removed a potential obstacle to a political return.
The wrecked Japanese nuclear plant’s operator said that a pump had stopped, possibly because of human error, in the latest mishap at the facility.
The Kyoto court ordered the far-right Zaitokukai group to pay $120,000 for staging demonstrations characterized as racist, usually against Koreans and Chinese, at an ethnic Korean school.
The story of how Malala Yousafzai went from being a quiet 11-year-old to a spokeswoman for girls’ education to a victim of the Taliban to a Nobel Prize candidate.
A new work by the British street artist Banksy is a parody of the video clips posted on YouTube by Syrian rebels.
Many expected that Peter Higgs, 84, whose name is attached to a landmark discovery, will be awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics, but there are other strong candidates.
Less than a year before Scots vote on independence, the move was apparently aimed to give a harder edge to the campaign against Britain’s breakup.
The fighting has ratcheted up tensions just as the two countries’ leaders have agreed to work together to de-escalate the situation.
The bomb went off Monday near a health care facility outside Peshawar, a city that has seen a spate of deadly attacks in recent weeks.
Officials say that after riots erupted between Hindus and Muslims last month, about 24,000 people are in refugee camps in the districts of Shamli and Muzaffarnagar.
Some refugees are seemingly settling in for the long haul by recreating fixtures of their past domestic lives.
A rising number of migrants from Africa and the Middle East are daring the waters of the Mediterranean to reach Europe.
More than a week after militants killed scores of people in the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya, investigators sought clues to the attack. These are among the first pictures to emerge from inside the mall since the investigation began.
The group has profited from illicit ivory, kidnappings, piracy ransoms, smuggled charcoal, extorted payments from aid organizations and even fake charity drives.
Video posted online Thursday showed the mother of a rebel fighter killed in battle saying a tearful farewell as his coffin was covered in dirt.
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