More than 20 foreigners were still either being held hostage or missing inside a gas plant on Friday after Algerian forces stormed the desert complex to free hundreds of captives taken by Islamist militants.
Russia expressed alarm on Friday that no date or venue had been agreed for a new round of talks between global powers and Iran over Tehran\’s nuclear program.
Campaigning for Jordan\’s parliamentary elections kicked off this week with tribesmen, former army generals and businesspersons rushing to join the race.
The long forecast “Holocaust fatigue” among filmmakers and their audiences has not yet arrived, judging by the entries for 2013 Oscar honors by producers and directors in numerous countries.
Islamists fought protesters outside the Egyptian president\’s palace on Wednesday, while inside the building his deputy proposed a way to end a crisis over a draft constitution that has split the most populous Arab nation.
Last week, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary-General Abdullatif Bin Rashid Al Zayani visited Yemen to mark the first anniversary of the deal that saw former President Ali Abdullah Saleh relinquish power to his longtime deputy, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
A Hungarian Jewish organization said it will file a complaint against a lawmaker who proposed drawing up a list of “dangerous” Jews in government.
Young Polish nationalists and anti-Semitic extreme rightists called for the overthrow of Poland at the republic\’s Independence Day march.
A network plotting to kidnap and ransom members of a southern Tunisia town\’s Jewish community was broken up by the country\’s national guard, a Tunisian newspaper reported.
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