North Korea fired five ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defense ministry said, in an apparent act of defiance towards the United States that further stoked regional tensions already high due to its nuclear test in May.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the missiles test-fired were...More
A photo showing a missile-firing drill at an undisclosed location in North Korea
An Israeli submarine sailed the Suez Canal to the Red Sea as part of a naval drill last month, defense sources said on Friday, as an Israeli minister warned against the expanding population of Arab Israelis that do not "love" Israel.
A defense source said the Israeli navy held an exercise off Eilat last month and that one...More
What happens when you put a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists?
Turkish television station Kanal T hopes the answer is a ratings success as it prepares to launch a game show where spiritual guides from the four faiths will seek to convert a group of...More
Iran said on Friday that some local British embassy staff arrested for allegedly playing a role in post-election violence will be put on trial as the European...More
Algerian music star Cheb Mami was sentenced Friday to five years in jail for drugging and trying to make his ex-girlfriend undergo a forced abortion, despite...More
The incoming head of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog said on Friday he did not see any written evidence that Iran was trying to gain the ability to...More
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has issued an informal invitation to American President Barack Obama to visit Damascus for talks, in a sign that relations...More
Hearing a female voice on the radio may be nothing new the world over but it is something of a novelty in the rugged mountainous terrain of Pakistan's...More
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Thursday to meet with Iraqi leaders and discuss the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces by the end of 2011, a day after Iraq’s defense...More
Masked vandals trashed a Paris bookstore run by pro-Palestinian activists on Friday, in an attack blamed by the owners on Jewish extremists.
A bystander told AFP he saw five men...More
Independence day fireworks in Goma sent terrified Congolese sprinting for cover on Tuesday in fear that war had broken out again in their eastern city.
Officials had organized the display to...More
Scorching hot Gulf States, Bahrain and the UAE, issued Wednesday a ban on outdoor construction work during the hottest time of the day in an effort to curb accidents and illness of the region's...More
The raw sewage dumped straight into the Mediterranean has failed to cure Gazans' itch for the beach and many in the Palestinian enclave brave nasty rashes for a dip in the polluted sea.
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