ANKARA — Turkey’s ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party hopes to project a moderate image by fielding more women and entrepreneurs as candidates in July’s election, but it may struggle to retain the support of urban middle-class voters.

GAZA CITY (AP) — Israeli-Palestinian violence escalated dangerously Monday when Israel killed five fighters in air strikes and indicated that Hamas political leaders could be their next target, and a rocket fired from Gaza killed an Israeli woman, inviting a harsh Israeli response.

NAHR AL BARED (AFP) — Lebanese troops bombarded Islamist gunmen with tanks and heavy artillery on Monday, the second day of the bloodiest internal fighting since the civil war that has killed 58 people.

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.