Moroccan activists have stepped up pressure to scrap laws that allow rapists to marry their victims - after a 16-year-old girl killed herself.
There have been protests in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after a military court acquitted an army doctor accused of carrying out forced virginity tests on women activists on Sunday.
Rising gas prices are weighing on the minds of Americans more than ever and poised to remain an important 2012 campaign issue.
While the West mourns the death of two foreign journalists, it continues to ignore the Syrian citizens who risk their lives to show the international community what is happening in their country.
Hundreds of voters voted Tuesday in Sanaa's old town section to replace Yemen's longtime ruler, Ali Abdullah Saleh, in an election marred by sporadic violence.
One of Syria's leading businessmen says its economy is being crippled by foreign sanctions and that the government is slowly disintegrating.
Both left and right rally behind Joachim Gauck, 72, who grew up in East Germany and does not belong to any political party
Six months since the Libyan civil war ended in Muammar Qaddadi's death, a new report from Amnesty International says hundreds of militias remain active in the country, extorting money and killing their enemies
In a high-stakes gamble, an imprisoned member of a Palestinian militant group has waged a hunger strike for almost two months, trying to draw attention to Israel's military justice system and its treatment of detainees who can be held without charge for lengthy periods.
When Bashar al-Assad’s predecessor as Syria’s president, his father Hafez, sent tanks and troops into Hama 30 years ago, there was neither You Tube nor smart phones.
NBC news report cites U.S. officials as confirming earlier reports of a link between Israeli clandestine operations and People’s Mujahedin of Iran activists, adding that the U.S. had no direct involvement with the alleged attacks.
The UN needs to send a direct message to Bashar Assad: A regime which resorts to war crimes will have to answer for them.
Civil society groups say trial of 43 NGO workers – including 19 Americans – is politically motivated
Russia may be seeking a "controlled demolition" of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's rule to save its sole major foothold in the Arab world against Western rivals when its foreign minister and spy chief hold rare talks in Damascus this week.
Minutes after locking out a social worker who'd brought his two sons for a visit, a man in Washington state blew up his house on Sunday -- killing himself and his boys, whose mother went missing more than two years ago, a sheriff's spokesman said.
The only possible explanation for the conduct of China and Russia is the desire to prevent a Western 'takeover' of the Arab Spring, no matter the cost in human life.
Four prominent Kenyans, two of them presidential candidates, were ordered Monday to stand trial at the International Criminal Court at The Hague on charges of crimes against humanity in connection with the bloodshed and waves of violence following the disputed elections …
Men with early prostate cancer had significantly less disease progression when treated with dutasteride (Avodart) than with placebo as part of active surveillance, results of a randomized trial showed.
The call for international public opinion to raise its voice completes the struggle of the democratic forces here. This will make it clear to all that the right-wing establishment in Israel has crossed a line in the direction of apartheid.
A daily dose of statins has “been shown to block the growth and spread of tumours,” according to the Daily Express.
Annual report lists Israel's blockade of Gaza Strip, settlement expansion in West Bank, and home demolitions in East Jerusalem; report also accuses Hamas for carrying out judicial executions and for allegedly torturing detainees.
Do not try to look up "Internet Censorship" or "SOPA" or "PIPA" on Wikipedia, the giant online encyclopedia, on Wednesday.
Assault is part of a broader crackdown on Shi'ite organizations, including charities, that was sparked in part by Hamas' fear of growing Iranian influence in Gaza.
The looming expulsion of thousands will be carried out with the silent agreement of enlightened members of society, because maintaining a Jewish majority is an ideological common denominator for the overwhelming majority of Israelis.
From 1955 until his death in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was the dominant leader of the US civil rights movement.
I don’t even know what to say about this any more; the comments about Trayvon Martin at Fox News are just unbelievable. Here’s the article: Department of Justice Opens Investigation Into Case of Black Teenager Killed by Neighborhood Watch Captain | Fox News. This op …
The fathers of Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law implicated in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin say the man who shot him to death probably should be arrested and doesn’t deserve a self-defense claim of immunity. Former state Sen. Durell Peaden an …
Moroccan activists have stepped up pressure to scrap laws that allow rapists to marry their victims - after a 16-year-old girl killed herself.
The father of an Israeli soldier held in captivity for more than five years by Hamas has said he would kidnap Israeli soldiers if he were a Palestinian. Noam Shalit, who announced earlier this year that he would be standing for the opposition Labour party in the next Israeli e …
There have been protests in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after a military court acquitted an army doctor accused of carrying out forced virginity tests on women activists on Sunday.
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