ISRAEL faces weeks of political turmoil after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would step down in September in a surprise move that casts a shadow over Middle East peacemaking efforts
ISRAEL`S Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced today he would step down in September after a party leadership vote, announcing the end of a premiership dogged by graft investigations
IRAQ forces supported by US troops laid siege to the city of Baqouba and arrested 35 suspects today, the second day of a major assault on al-Qaeda fighters in dangerous Diyala province
ISRAELI troops shot three Palestinians with rubber bullets in a clash with protesters at the funeral of a 10-year-old boy killed a day earlier, Palestinian medics say
A SAUDI appeals court upheld a jail and flogging verdict against a biochemist and his female student whose research contact was ruled to be a front for a telephone affair that led her to divorce her husband
SAUDI Arabia`s religious police have banned selling cats and dogs or exercising them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said today
A FATAH military commander was seriously wounded in an explosion today in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, a medic said after a Palestinian official had earlier said he had been killed
IRAQI forces backed by US troops launched a major assault overnight against rebels in the province of Diyala, an al-Qaeda stronghold and one of the most dangerous places in the country
IRAN`S top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said today that talks with world powers aimed at resolving the crisis over its atomic drive were "positive and progressive," local media reported
