Dubai debt fears, dollar slide hit world stock markets hard World stock markets tumbled Thursday as investors fretted over the debt problems at ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Environmental activists shut down four cranes at port run by one of Asia's biggest pulp and paper groups on Indonesia's ...
Gaza's Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, center, greets Palestinian pilgrims waiting to cross to Egypt for the upcoming Eid al-Adha festival, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. A Hamas delegation was in Egypt on Tuesday meeting with the German ...
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Tuesday that efforts to bring about peace in the Middle East must go on, despite the lack so far of tangible progress. "It is necessary to keep expectations high," Zapatero told reporters in ...
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has accepted an Arab League request to calm tension between Egypt and Algeria sparked by their soccer World Cup play-off matches, Libyan state media reported Tuesday. Egypt and Algeria have each accused the other of ...
US computer giant Hewlett-Packard posted a 14 percent rise in quarterly net profit Monday as slumping personal computer sales were offset by a solid performance in its services division. The Palo Alto, California-based HP reported fourth-quarter net profit of 2.4 billion dollars, ...
Israel said on Monday there was no deal yet on a prisoner swap with Hamas, as efforts appeared to gather pace on an accord that could see a Gaza-held soldier exchanged for hundreds of Palestinians. "There is no deal yet," Israeli Prime ...
Israel said on Monday there was no deal yet on a prisoner swap with Hamas, as efforts appeared to gather pace on an accord that could see a Gaza-held soldier exchanged for hundreds of Palestinians. "There is no deal yet," Israeli Prime ...
In this photo taken Nov. 18, 2009, Egyptian and Algerian players clash during their World Cup qualifying playoff soccer match at the Marrikh Stadium in Khartoum, Sudan. Egypt on Thursday recalled its ambassador to Algeria for consultations as part of a growing ...
Venomous headlines in Egyptian media fed soccer fans' anger with Algeria Angry soccer fans rampaged through a posh diplomatic neighborhood in Cairo over the weekend, smashing shop windows and shouting obscenities in a frenzy fed by venomous headlines that portrayed Algerians as ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Israel's president said on Sunday expanding Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank was a "marginal" issue blocking resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians. But Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, speaking at a joint news conference with Shimon Peres, ...
Egypt president tells Peres that Jerusalem is an issue for all Muslims, not just Palestinians Egypt's president on Sunday criticized Israeli construction in east Jerusalem, telling his Israeli counterpart that settlement activity in the disputed sector of the holy city threatens to ...
