THE bodies of three Palestinians have been recovered from a smuggling tunnel between Egypt and the Gaza Strip which collapsed at the weekend, while six people are missing
PALESTINIANS are mourning the death of poet Mahmud Darwish who gave voice to their decades-old struggle and is widely considered one of the Arab world`s greatest writers
PALESTINIAN Prime Minister Salam Fayyad knew he had a big problem - foreign donors hadn`t given him enough cash to pay public service salaries this month
EGYPT is to carry out DNA tests on the mummified remains of two foetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamun to determine if they were the children of the boy king
IRAQ is amassing a huge budget surplus of soaring oil export revenues, but is spending little on reconstruction, for which the United States is bearing the financial burden, a US government report said
HUNDREDS of Muslim worshippers today visited a revered Shiite shrine in northern Iraq that is being rebuilt after a deadly bomb blast which triggered bitter sectarian bloodshed
A BRITISH Museum team has found the skeleton of a Canaanite soldier that dates back to 1800 BC in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon, the mission`s supervisor said today
ISRAELI Cabinet minister Shaul Mofaz, a contender to succeed the prime minister, denounced his native Iran on today as "the root of all evil" and said its nuclear programme constituted a threat to world peace
