Pakistan seeks a long-term strategic partnership with the US, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Thursday conceding that differences still exist between the two countries but it is now Washington's turn to 'do...

Thuraya is to develop a high-speed broadband terminal for the maritime industry in partnership with Comtech, WAM news agency reported...

Afghan and Western officials have accused Iran of delivering tonnes of weaponry to the Taleban, including plastic explosives, mortars, grenades and technical...

An Indian man and woman, working as cabin crew for Emirates airlines, have received a jail sentence here for exchanging steamy text messages, a media report said...

The Palestinian Authority has closed down the only Christian TV broadcaster in the...

(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)An Israeli police officer is seen at the site where a rocket, fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, hit the southern Israeli agricultural community of Netiv...

MOSCOW — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had barely arrived in Moscow for nuclear-arms and Mideast talks when tensions over Iran flared up publicly Thursday. Meeting reporters...

Israeli soldiers stand near a mobile artillery unit positioned just outside the northern Gaza Strip Israeli aircraft struck at least six targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday a day after...

JERUSALEM/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Israel tried to defuse a dispute with the United States on Friday over plans to expand settlements, saying it would offer the Palestinians "confidence-building" steps to...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, speaks as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov looks on during their news conference after the talks in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 18,...

Charlotte Bobcats . Now comes the hard part: he must remake the image of this troubled franchise both on the court and in the community, where fans have long been jaded about the...

George J. Mitchell, whose planned visit had been called off amid a diplomatic dispute with Israel, will head back to the region this weekend to resume...

BERKELEY — UC Berkeley student leaders voted early Thursday to drop the student Senate's investments in companies doing business with Israel.The Senate, meeting into the early hours of the...

Army Staff Sgt. Richard "Joe" Jordan wasn't the most gifted athlete or student, but that didn't lessen his impact on Antioch Community High School. Michael Gordy, a journalism teacher and football...

U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell, who earlier postponed his visit to the turbulent region amid a row between the U.S. and Israel over plans for new settlement construction in east Jerusalem,...

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at a nearby Israeli farm yesterday, killing a Thai worker, in the first fatal attack from the coastal territory since the end of the war last...

MOSCOW (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Russian counterpart clashed openly Thursday over the planned launch this summer of Iran's first, Russian-built nuclear power...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - A rocket fired by Gaza militants smashed into a greenhouse in an Israeli border village Thursday, killing a Thai worker in the first such death since Israel's massive...

Weekly Commentary: Should Jordan's King Get A Free Pass When He Slams Israel? Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 18 March 2010 Why should Jordan's King Abdullah II get a free pass when he slams Israel with...

The worst drought in a century has turned much of southern China into parched fields and dry rice paddies, with no tap water for thirsty villagers; riverboat tourism cut in half, and cracks in an...

The on-strike taxies line up on a street in Athens, capital of Greece, March 18, 2010. Taxi drivers union in Athens called a 24-hour strike in protest against the new taxation measures announced by...

It was the latest example of the ongoing chaos in Iraq's postelection count, which has fueled uncertainty and allegations of fraud. Questions about the vote's validity could undermine US ambitions to...

Friday, March 19, 2010 LONDON: British artist Steve McQueen, a Turner Prize winner and acclaimed filmmaker, has called for portraits of soldiers killed in the Iraq conflict to be turned into postage...

A group of 300 Polish pilgrims led by the Catholic Cardinal Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz of Cracow visited the Yad Vashem memorial to the Holocaust during a tour of Israel. Cardinal Dziwisz prayed...

The tiny Islamist faction Ansar al-Sunna took responsibility for the Qassam rocket attack that took the life of a Thai farm worker yesterday in Netiv Ha'asara. Like Hamas, Israel has no interest in...

WASHINGTON – The White House received more than 20,000 e-mails calling for it to end the crisis with Israel in the 24 hours after Christian United for Israel urged its activists to send such...

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft struck at least six targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday a day after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave killed a Thai worker in Israel, Hamas security...

GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants launched a first deadly rocket attack on Israel in over a year, killing a Thai worker on Thursday in a strike that challenged Gaza's Hamas rulers and prompted...

MARK WEISS in JerusalemPALESTINIANS IN Gaza were bracing themselves for a harsh Israeli response after a Thai farm worker was killed when a rocket fired by Palestinian militants hit an Israeli...

Former NBA star Michael Jordan vows to help the Charlotte Bobcats experience what winning is about, telling reporters and season ticket holders it's his "dream come true" to own the NBA team. ...

Middle East diplomatic efforts are being stepped up after a rocket fired from Gaza killed a farm worker in Israel during a visit to the region by the EU's foreign policy...

Danny Fitzsimons, 29, from Lancashire, is accused of shooting dead two employees of security firm ArmorGroup, one of them a Scot, in Baghdad's high-security Green Zone.Paul McGuigan, from Peebles,...

HILLARY Clinton told Russians last night that Washington and Moscow were making "substantial progress" in negotiating a new pact to limit nuclear...

JERUSALEM/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Israel tried to defuse a dispute with the United States on Friday over plans to expand settlements, saying it would propose "confidence-building" steps to the...

GAZA: Palestinian militants launched their first deadly rocket attack on Israel in over a year, killing a Thai worker yesterday in a strike that challenged Gaza's Hamas rulers and prompted Israel to...

Iraq’s general election, the second since the 2003 US-led invasion, has turned into a competition rarely if ever seen in the Arab world, where the miracle of unanimity, dictatorially enacted, is...

Israeli aircraft have launched a series of strikes on Gaza, striking at least four separate targets in the strip. The raids came after Israel threatened a "strong" response following the firing of a...

Iraqi PM al-Maliki retained his narrow lead over secularist rival Allawi as Iraq neared a final preliminary count of votes cast in a March 7 parliamentary...

The Paris-based media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, has asked for a full investigation into the case of Omidreza Mirsayafi, an Iranian journalist and blogger who died in prison one year...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Michael Jordan vows to help Charlotte experience what winning is about, telling reporters and season ticket holders it's a "dream come true" to own the Bobcats.Thursday's...

Two senior United States generals praised Wednesday Turkey’s military assistance in Iraq and Afghanistan while hinting at fears the cooperation could be scaled back with a potential U.S. House...