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AP – 52 mins ago
JERUSALEM - Israel's Justice Ministry declared Sunday that no indictments will be filed against police in the case of an American activist who was hit by a tear gas canister and left comatose during a violent demonstration in the West Bank last year.
AP – 1 hr 58 mins ago
CHAM, Iran - Thousands of Iranians gathered at dusk against a snowy mountain backdrop to light giant bonfires in an ancient mid-winter festival dating back to Iran's pre-Islamic past that is drawing new interest from Muslims.
AP – 2 hrs 33 mins ago
CAIRO - Egypt will soon reveal the results of DNA tests made on the world's most famous ancient king, the young Pharaoh Tutankhamun, to answer lingering mysteries over his lineage, the antiquities department said Sunday.
AP – Sun Jan 31, 11:10 am ET
JERUSALEM - Israeli officials said Sunday that a Hamas commander assassinated in Dubai played a central role in smuggling weapons from Iran to Gaza militants. But they refused to say whether Israel was responsible for killing the man it had sought for two decades.
AP – Sun Jan 31, 8:51 am ET
CAIRO - Egyptian prosecutors are questioning 25 people suspected of forming a new Islamic militant group to carry out attacks inside the country, a security official and a lawyer said Sunday.
AP – Sun Jan 31, 7:58 am ET
AMMAN, Jordan - A Jordanian security official says authorities have arrested dozens of Muslim militants in connection with a failed bomb attack on Israeli diplomats.
AP – Sun Jan 31, 7:54 am ET
SAN'A, Yemen - Yemen's government on Sunday rejected a cease-fire offer from the country's northern rebels and issued a fresh demand calling on the militants to pledged not to attack neighboring Saudi Arabia.
AP – Sat Jan 30, 1:02 pm ET
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran put 16 opposition supporters detained during anti-government protests last month on trial Saturday on charges of rioting and conspiring against the ruling system, Iran's state media reported.
AP – Sat Jan 30, 1:01 pm ET
BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt Saturday at a restaurant popular with Iraqi security forces in a city that was once a flash point for sectarian slaughter, killing at least two people, authorities said.
AP – Sat Jan 30, 8:45 am ET
RAMADI, Iraq - A prominent sheik and U.S. ally is weighing whether to urge fellow Sunnis to boycott upcoming elections in protest of the government's ballot purge of hundreds of candidates suspected of links to Saddam Hussein's regime.
AFP – Sun Jan 31, 10:35 am ET
SANAA (AFP) - Yemen on Sunday said it would stop its war on Shiite northern rebels only if they agree to a six-point truce offer, including a pledge not to attack Saudi Arabia, as fighting raged on three fronts.
Reuters – 1 hr 25 mins ago
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and the United States are closely conferring about the Iranian nuclear program, U.S. National Security Adviser Jim Jones said in an interview published Sunday, calling Israel's conduct "responsible."
AFP – Sun Jan 31, 10:34 am ET
DUBAI (AFP) - The police chief of Dubai said on Sunday Israel's spy agency Mossad or others with a vested interest could have killed a top militant of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in a Dubai hotel room.
AFP – 1 hr 36 mins ago
TRIPOLI (AFP) - A Libyan appeal court on Sunday overturned a jail term slapped on Swiss businessman Rashid Hamdani on a charge of overstaying his visa, his lawyer said, easing a Tripoli-Bern diplomatic spat.
