BRUSSELS: Eurosceptic nationalists scored stunning victories in European Parliament elections in France and Britain on Sunday as critics of the European Union...
PARIS/LUXEMBOURG: Russia’s apparent strategy of fostering instability in Ukraine without further overt military intervention is sharpening divisions in the...
BRUSSELS: As Moscow and the West dig in for a prolonged stand-off over Russia’s annexation of Crimea, risking spillover to other former Soviet republics and...
BRUSSELS: The European Central Bank still has a “big bazooka” with plenty of ammunition to preserve the euro despite a German constitutional court statement...
DAVOS, Switzerland: Prolonged low inflation in the eurozone would make the necessary economic rebalancing of the 18-nation currency area harder to achieve, EU...
DAVOS, Switzerland: Iran is determined to negotiate a comprehensive deal on its nuclear programme with major powers so it can develop its battered economy,...
DAVOS, Switzerland: Iran is negotiating with the United States as part of a "constructive engagement" with the world community and wants Washington...
PARIS: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will court global business in Davos next week after winning an easing of some economic sanctions, but any trade...
PARIS: European officials are confident they have averted a damaging clash among EU leaders over migration at a summit this week, but public fears of an...
PARIS: Yasser Arafat was not the victim of poisoning, French forensic tests concluded on Tuesday, countering the theory put forward by a Swiss report on the...
PARIS: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results...
PARIS: Western allies warned Egypt's military leaders right up to the last minute against using force to crush protest sit-ins by supporters of the ousted...
CAIRO: When Egyptians poured onto the streets in their millions to demand the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, few thought they would return two years...
LONDON: Britain has abandoned plans to arm Syrian rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad and believes he might survive in office for years,...
CAIRO/PARIS: Mohammad Mursi might still be president of Egypt today if he had grasped a political deal brokered by the European Union with opposition parties...
CAIRO: Mahmoud Badr “owns” the Egyptian street. The 28-year-old activist in sneakers, jeans and a worn-out polo shirt invented the magic formula that drew...
PARIS: A Franco-German deal to strengthen the eurozone has ended months of bickering between Paris and Berlin and raised the onus on French President Francois...
CAIRO: It's harvest time in Egypt but the secular opposition is reaping scant benefit from the Muslim Brotherhood's difficulties in government, two...
CAIRO: Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood is trying to exact revenge on the judiciary for years of imprisonment and political exclusion, but is attacking...
CAIRO: Egypt’s Christians feel sidelined, ignored and neglected by Muslim Brotherhood-led authorities, who proffer assurances but have taken little or...
CAIRO: Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi's Islamist allies acted on Tuesday to defuse a row over attempts to force out thousands of judges, sending a...
CAIRO: Egypt and the International Monetary Fund failed to agree on terms for a $4.8 billion loan that could ease a worsening economic crisis in the Arab...
CAIRO: Egypt is close to an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a $4.8 billion loan that would help it fight a deepening economic crisis but is...
CAIRO: Senior opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei set three conditions on Monday for ending a boycott of Egypt's elected Islamist president and working...
CAIRO: Two more deaths were reported on Monday after sectarian violence at Cairo's Coptic cathedral that the Egyptian government and Muslim and Christian...