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The cabinet of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved legislation on Sunday that could put an end to the pass ultra-Orthodox Jews get on military service.

Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei has not been named Egypt’s prime minister, aide to president says.

Fighting erupted Friday night in Cairo between hundreds of supporters of Mohamed Morsy and their opponents.

High in the hills between Ramallah and Nablus in the West Bank sits a huge construction site its developers hope will transform the lives of Palestinians for generations to come.

Leaping from rooftops and doing backflips off walls is when Prince Haydar feels the most free.

CNN’s correspondent Ben Wedeman explains what’s behind the latest Egypt protests and what the military can do.

A committee of US senators has called on the United Nations to investigate a network of secret torture centers in Iran exposed by a CNN investigation last month.

Iran has experienced a spike in suspected poisoning attacks at girls’ schools across the country in recent days, according to state and semi-official media, as medical staff and teachers accused … Read More

Economists say those structural weaknesses in the economy will only get worse because of the quake and could determine the course of presidential and parliamentary elections expected in mid-May.