DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Gunmen on Saturday abducted the elderly father of Syria's deputy foreign minister, his office and a Lebanese TV station said. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov was forced to quit in a power struggle between the Kremlin and the government on Wednesday, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The Kremlin said in a statement that Presi... [Full Article]
By Peter Henderson SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters has dismissed Matthew Keys, the deputy social media editor of Reuters.com who was indicted on charges of aiding members of the Anonymous hacking collective, Keys said in a Twitter message o... [Full Article]
CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamists battled with protesters outside Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi's palace on Thursday, after his vice president suggested amendments could be agreed to the draft constitution that has divided the nation. Fires burned ... [Full Article]
The BBC says its news chief and her deputy have 'stepped aside' while the broadcaster deals with the fallout from a child abuse scandal that forced its director-general to resign. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Lifting a nearly 25-year veil of secrecy, Israel acknowledged Thursday that it killed the deputy of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in a 1988 seaborne raid on Tunisia. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
The deputy U.S. secretary of state attended a memorial service in Tripoli on Thursday for the American ambassador to Libya and three consulate staffers killed in Benghazi last week. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
ADEN (Reuters) - Yemeni armed forces have killed Said al-Shehri, a man seen as the second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a government website said on Monday. The Ministry of Defense website said Shehri was a Saudi national wh... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria denied reports on Saturday that President Bashar al-Assad's deputy had defected and his forces pressed an offensive against rebels, bombarding parts of Aleppo in the north and hitting an insurgent-held town in the oil-pr... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Liberal Democrat deputy finance minister played down the importance of the country's top credit rating, preserving which has been at the heart of the country's austerity-focused economic policy. Chancellor ... [Full Article]