Bombings kill 3, rattle Lebanon
The bombs went off as the two commuter buses rumbled through a rainy rush hour in this tiny Christian village Tuesday, the blasts echoing like thunder and killing three people...
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Air blockade of Lebanon lifted; harbors still sealed
A passenger plane swept over downtown Beirut and along the Mediterranean coast Thursday afternoon, a flourish marking the end of an Israeli-imposed air blockade that has isolated Lebanon for weeks....
Chemist questioned in London bombings
CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian police were interrogating a 33-year-old biochemist last night who was seized in connection with last week's London bombings, as relatives denied that he had anything to...
U.S. hostage beheaded
Islamic radicals killed an American engineer held hostage in Saudi Arabia and then posted photographs of the man's severed head and bloodied corpse on a Web site Friday. Hours later,...
Militants hit former UN site in Syria
Explosions and gunfire roared in this city's diplomatic quarter Tuesday night as militants attacked a former United Nations building and battled security forces in a rare burst of violence in...
Plane crash off Egyptian coast kills 148 people
A charter jet packed with French tourists plummeted into the Red Sea off this beach resort Saturday, killing all 148 people on board. French and Egyptian officials said the crash...
Israeli Cabinet to vote on `road map’
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has reluctantly agreed to take a U.S.-backed peace plan to a Cabinet vote this weekend in exchange for an American promise to consider revisions, an...