Jerusalem, May 21 (AP/UNB) - Israel's chief peace negotiator said Tuesday that the current stalemate with the Palestinians is harmful for Israel, days before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to arrive in Is...

Washington, May 21 (AP/UNB) - President Barack Obama says he is instructing his disaster response team to get tornado victims in the southwest state of Oklahoma everything they need "right away."Obama calls the devastati...

Morocco, May 21 (AP/UNB) -Morocco's state news agency says that police have rescued seven immigrants in a boat off the Mediterranean coast and found five bodies in the sea.The report late Monday said those rescued includ...

Uganda, May 21 (AP/UNB) -Analysts in Uganda say an army general's concern that officials are at risk of assassination if they oppose President Yoweri Museveni's plan to have his son succeed him is controversial because i...

Beirut, May 21 (AP/UNB) - Backed by elite troops of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group, Syrian government forces fought rebels in a strategic opposition-held Syrian town near the Lebanese border for the third straight da...

Jerusalem, May 21 (AP/UNB) - Israel's military chief issued a stern warning to Bashar Assad on Tuesday, saying the Syrian leader would "bear the consequences" of any more attacks on Israeli forces near the Syrian border....

Washington, May 21 (AP/UNB) - The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew litt...

Afghanistan, May 21 (AP/UNB) -The number of Afghan women and girls jailed for "moral crimes" has risen dramatically in the past 18 months, raising concerns that gains in women's rights might be reversed with the withdraw...

Mali, May 21 (AP/UNB) - French soldiers in Mali have rebuilt a bridge which was dynamited in January by fighters from an al-Qaida-linked Islamic extremist group.The bridge in the village of Tassiga is close to the Niger ...

Saudi Arabia, May 21 (AP/UNB) - A Saudi online newspaper says Oman is proposing that women be banned from wearing face veils when driving.Al-Watan said Tuesday Oman made the proposal at a meeting of Gulf Cooperation Coun...