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An Egyptian lawyer has sued to stop state television broadcasting a soap opera that has touched a raw nerve by depicting the marriage of a Coptic Christian woman to a Muslim man.

Gunfire echoes over Jerusalem for an hour or two most nights, briefly turning up the political heat in a city that is a tinderbox of communal tensions.

A Muslim militant who was extradited from Syria for retrial in Jordan has confessed to planning terrorist attacks against U.S. targets in the kingdom nearly a year ago, officials said Saturday.

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Twenty-two Jordanians and Syrians died in a road accident in Saudi Arabia on their way home from Kuwait for the Muslim Eid al-Fitr feast, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

Twenty-six people, mainly Jordanians and Syrians, were killed when a bus and a truck caught fire after a head-on collision in western Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Aides to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak say that a peace agreement between the two sides is within reach.

A top aide to assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was sentenced to two years in prison Friday after being convicted of soliciting a bribe, fraud and breach of public trust for his role in an international arms deal.

An Iraqi newspaper said on Sunday several foreign airlines were making preparations to resume scheduled flights to Baghdad, banned by sanctions since the 1991 Gulf War.

Algeria, after showing its leadership skills by brokering a peace deal signed on Tuesday between Ethiopia and Eritrea, wants better ties with the United States and other countries, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said.

Saudi Arabia has arrested a U.S. citizen over two bomb attacks that killed a British worker, UK officials said.

Egyptian officials have confirmed that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak will not travel to Egypt for a meeting with the Egyptian president on Thursday.

Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to seek re-election -- despite legal hurdles -- following the surprise resignation of Ehud Barak.

Leah Zarembo put the finishing touches on a mural of a pastoral village scene she painted on the concrete barriers shielding a Jewish settlement from gunfire.

Eleven weeks of confrontation between Palestinians and Israelis has claimed lives and livelihood. In Bethlehem -- the place where Christians believe Jesus was born -- the threat of violence has stolen away much of the spirit of Christmas.

Fresh violence erupted in the West Bank on Tuesday as Palestinian and Israeli leaders studied U.S. proposals to revive peace talks.

Two people, one a 14-year-old boy, have been killed in clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen in Gaza, Palestinian Red Crescent has confirmed.

In a nationwide address, Bahrain's emir pledged Saturday that his Gulf island state will gradually install a fully elected parliament and hold municipal elections.

A newly appointed Bahraini committee has recommended the setting up of two parliament chambers including an elected one in the Gulf Arab state, newspapers reported on Thursday.

Bahrain's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa on Saturday pledged the setting up of two parliament chambers, one directly elected, in the conservative Gulf Arab state, the Gulf News Agency reported.

A Briton blinded in one eye in the latest bomb attack on British citizens in Saudi Arabia will require more operations to try to save his sight, his doctors have said.

ANKARA, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's most prominent jailed human rights activist has joined scores of prisoners who have been on hunger strike for more than 50 days, rights workers said on Wednesday.

The head of the new U.N. weapons inspection commission said on Wednesday he was optimistic that Iraq would allow inspectors entry next year despite Baghdad's public statements of rejection.

Three explosions went off in and around a bus in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Thursday. Israel Police said at least 13 people were injured -- at least one of them seriously.

A Briton was severely injured late on Friday by a bomb explosion in Saudi Arabia -- the third such attack on the British community there in less than a month.

A Briton has been badly injured by a bomb blast in Saudi Arabia, the third British expatriate to be targeted in such an attack in the past month.

Britain's Foreign Office is warning its ex-patriots in Saudi Arabia to be

A building collapsed Friday in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing six people and injuring four in a ground-floor bakery, police said.

Two buildings collapsed in Cairo early Friday, leaving at least three people dead, three injured and eight more trapped under the debris, police officials said.

With its pledge to restore the vigor of sanctions against Iraq, President-elect George W. Bush's team has set itself a challenging goal which it might live to regret, analysts said on Tuesday.