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Two French aid workers were freed in Darfur on Sunday after being held hostage for nearly four months, France's government said. The two were working for a French charity, Triangle Generation Humanitaire, when they were kidnapped in

The health of Egypt's president is improving following gallbladder surgery last week, a spokeswoman for the German hospital where he is receiving treatment said on Sunday. President Hosni Mubarak, 81, who has ruled Egypt for almost three decades, had

Egypt cancelled the formal opening on Sunday of a renovated 19th-century synagogue in Cairo in protest at what antiquities chief Zahi Hawass called "provocative" Jewish and Israeli actions. Both Hawass and Culture Minister Faruq Hosni

A list led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a wide lead in early results from the southern oil hub of Basra and a coalition led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi leads in the northern city of Kirkuk, the country's electoral commission said on

The Palestinian Authority undermined Judge Richard Golstone's factfinding mission to the Gaza Strip and is now asking UN special rapporteur Richard Falk to resign. Nations) They hail from

Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi’s plans to depict Prophet Muhammad in a film on the childhood of the Muslim figure revives controversy in the Islamic world over the permissibility of visual portrayals of the prophet. Academy Award nominee

Despite international assistance the Somali government's military forces are ineffective and corrupt, and it remains dependent on foreign troops for survival, a U.N. group concluded in a report. "Despite infusions of foreign training and assistance,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an inquiry Saturday into why a contested settlement plan was announced during a landmark visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a spokesman said. "The prime minister has decided to create a committee

MEMRI: Special Dispatch| 2854 | March 12, 2010 & Terrorism Studies & the West Hamas Sermon in Gaza on Al-Aqsa TV: Rome Will Be Conquered by Islam The following are excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered in the Gaza Strip, which aired on Hamas'

Trial hears further allegations of corruption during prosecution investigations. By Wairagala Wakabi in The Hague (AR No 250, 12-Mar-10)The trial of alleged Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga heard testimony this week from a witness who said an