Middle East
Lung cancer treatment hope raised
For the first time, a major study shows that a drug targeting the body\'s disease-fighting immune system may improve survival for the ...Sepp Blatter wins re-election as FIFA president
Sepp Blatter was re-elected as FIFA president for a fifth term on Friday, chosen to lead world soccer despite separate U.S. and ...Suicide bomber attacks Shiite mosque in Saudi
An Islamic State jihadist killed three people Friday when he blew himself up in a car outside a Shiite mosque in Saudi ...Blatter calls for unity ahead of FIFA vote
FIFA boss Sepp Blatter on Friday defended his actions battling corruption ahead of a vote to decide on whether he remains as ...German city evacuates 20,000 people to defuse WWII bomb
German authorities evacuated around 20,000 people from their homes in the western city of Cologne Wednesday before defusing a World War II ...Former British PM Blair quits as Middle East envoy
Tony Blair resigned Wednesday as the Quartet diplomatic group\'s envoy, his office said, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict he worked to end as ...Saudi-led airstrikes on police headquarters kill 45 in Yemen
Saudi-led coalition warplanes killed 45 soldiers on Wednesday when they targeted a rebel troop headquarters in the Yemeni capital as the United ...Iraq launches operation to drive Islamic State from Anbar
Iraq\'s Shi\'ite paramilitaries said on Tuesday they had taken charge of the campaign to drive Islamic State from the western province of ...Syrian airstrikes kill 140 IS militants
The Syrian air force hit an Islamic State-controlled air base in Raqqa province on Tuesday, killing more than 140 militants, state media ...Israel ex-PM Olmert sentenced to 8 months in jail for corruption
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to eight months in prison for corruption on Monday, the latest legal blow in ...




