Washington said a call by the Arab League for a U.N. no-fly zone over Libya was an “important step”, as government troops backed by tanks and warplanes fought to drive rebels from
Israel said on Sunday it would build several hundred new homes for settlers in the occupied West Bank, a day after a Palestinian attack killed an Israeli couple and three of their
Bahraini riot police fired thick clouds of tear gas and pushed back protesters who blocked a main thoroughfare leading to the Bahrain Financial Harbour, a key business district in the Gulf Arab
Russians from the Bering Strait to the Baltic voted in regional elections on Sunday, the last big test for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ruling party before December parliamentary polls and a presidential
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan slammed a European Parliament report that noted a deterioration in press freedom and women's rights in Turkey, saying it was unbalanced and written by people who did not
* Tsunami could reach 6 feet in California * Evacuations possible in California * Hawaii and Guam residents told to leave coastal areas * Warning extended to Northern California and Oregon The
. No matter who eventually wins the lethal battles raging in Libya, the oil market will likely be starved of hundreds of millions of barrels for a long time, reshaping oil flows
A new Turkish satellite has Israelis eyeing the end of a U.S.-backed blackout on high-resolution commercial photography of their turf from space. The GokTurk satellite due in orbit by 2013 will sell
Cyprus has received expressions of interest from ten companies for a project to build an oil storage terminal together with the government, providing a capacity of at least 300,000 cubic metres. The
Greek bank shares gained 4.8% in anticipation of progress at a summit of euro zone leaders later in the day to agree on further steps to contain the debt crisis afflicting the
