Moving Palestinian issue in right direction gives world flexibility to tackle other Mideast problems, Monarch tells BBC

Lebanese troops have continued to battle an armed Palestinian group at a refugee camp in northern Lebanon for the second straight day, security sources have said.

The United States Army insists that it’s not so desperate that it would recruit the mentally ill to serve on the front lines.

Tens of thousands of Turks have rallied in the northern city of Samsun in the latest of a series of weekly pro-secular demonstrations against the government ahead of elections.

On May, 20th, Anti-imperialistic rally against imperial Russia’s policy, to coincide with the 143rd anniversary of the completion of the first Russian-Caucasian war (May 21, 1864) and occupation of Caucasus by Russia, took place in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.

China’s top legislator Wu Bangguo toured a Chinese-Egyptian joint training aircraft project in Cairo on Sunday, a program which highlights the strength of Sino-Egyptian relations.

El Salvador’s President Elias Antonio Saca was in Egypt Monday in the first visit by a Salvadoran leader since Cairo cut ties with San Salvador in 1984.

CAIRO, Egypt: Police arrested 45 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood Monday as part of Egypt’s ongoing campaign against the country’s strongest opposition group, the group and police officials said.

CAIRO, May 22–Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour could be released Tuesday on medical grounds after a year in jail, Egyptian press said.

By RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament voted Monday to oust an outspoken female lawmaker who has enraged former mujahedeen fighters now in President Hamid Karzai’s U.S.-backed government. The lawmaker, Malalai Joya, compared parliament to a stable full of animals in a recent TV interview. The video …