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THE Muslim Brotherhood indicated yesterday that it would review Egypt’s landmark peace treaty with Israel should it form part of a future government after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak. The comments from the opposition […] […]

THE “war on terror” prison at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is “one of the finest prison systems in the world,” former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said. Rumsfeld, who is promoting […] […]

THE Swedish prosecutor seeking Julian Assange’s extradition on sex assault allegations has been challenged to substantiate her claims against the Australian in a London court. An extradition hearing for the WikiLeaks founder has levelled criticism […] […]

GENEVA—Family members were discouraged Tuesday about the odds of finding two missing Swiss girls alive, after discovering that their Canadian-born father mailed away thousands of euros rather than hire daycare before apparently killing himself. The […] […]

ISLAMABAD—The United States may scrap upcoming talks with Pakistan about the war in Afghanistan to further pressure Islamabad to free an American who shot dead two Pakistanis, U.S. officials said. Washington insists the detained American […] […]

EL PASO, Texas—Three officials from Cuba are expected to testify in the U.S. trial of a former CIA operative and anti-communist militant accused of lying during immigration hearings in Texas—a rare example of cooperation between […] […]

HUNDREDS of Islamic hardliners have stormed a courthouse and set two churches on fire in central Indonesia to protest what they considered a lenient sentence for a Christian man convicted of blaspheming Islam. Antonius Richmond […] […]

Iran has blocked journalists and international observers from the opening of the trial of three American hikers accused of spying. The hikers strayed over the border from Iraq in 2009. At the five-hour hearing yesterday, […] […]

A British journalist from the Guardian newspaper has been expelled from Russia after reporting claims in US diplomatic cables that the country had become a “mafia state”, the paper says. Luke Harding, the daily’s Moscow […] […]

BUFFALO, New York – The founder of a Muslim-oriented New York television station was convicted Monday of beheading his wife in 2009 in the studio the couple had opened to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims […] […]