Middle East
Earthlings watch as tiny Mercury sails past the sun
Tiny Mercury, the solar system\'s innermost planet, sailed across the face of the sun on Monday, a celestial dance that occurs about ...Gunmen kill eight police in Cairo suburb, Islamic State claims attack
Gunmen killed eight plainclothes police on the southern outskirts of Cairo overnight, the Egyptian interior ministry said, in an assault claimed by ...Egyptian court recommends death penalty for journalists, Mursi verdict postponed
An Egyptian court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for three journalists and three others charged with endangering national security by leaking ...Israel hits Gaza after mortar fire across border
Israeli aircraft struck a Hamas facility in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday after cross-border mortar fire, the Israeli army said, as ...Activists say dozens killed in Syrian airstrike on refugee camp
Air strikes on a camp housing Syrians uprooted by war killed 28 people near the Turkish border on Thursday, a monitoring group ...Turkey PM announces resignation as Erdogan tightens grip
Turkey\'s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was reportedly to quit his jobs of ruling party chief and head of government, in a dramatic ...400,000 refugees could head for Turkey if no Aleppo truce: UN envoy
The UN\'s envoy for Syria on Wednesday made a plea for a halt in fighting in the second city of Aleppo, warning ...Israeli gets life for burning alive Palestinian teen
An Israeli court on Tuesday handed down a life sentence to the ringleader of a Jewish gang that kidnapped, beat and burned ...Yemen govt temporarily suspends talks with rebels
Yemen\'s government temporarily suspended Sunday its participation in talks with Iran-backed rebels in protest at their takeover of a military base and ...Bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims kills 14 in Iraq
A car bomb targeted Shiite pilgrims in an area near Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 14 people and wounding at least ...




