KHARTOUM (AP) — The Sudanese government Sunday ordered the chief UN envoy out of the country after he wrote that Sudan’s army had suffered major losses in recent fighting in Darfur. The order against the envoy, Jan Pronk, is likely to complicate international efforts to halt the killings, rapes and …

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- First Vice President Parviz Dawoodi said in a joint meeting of the government and parliament here on Sunday that Iran has now won a magnificent position in the world.

LEGO, Somalia, (Reuters) — Heavily armed Islamist fighters gathered near a key southern Somali town on Sunday a day after their allies were chased out by government troops, sending many residents fleeing in fear of an all-out attack. One Islamist source said its troops were also planning an attack on …

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hoseini said that as with the other issues, suspension can also be put to discussion during Iran-West nuclear negotiations if only fair and just conditions are provided.

GAZA CITY — In Gaza City’s Firas market the stalls are laden with gift items and toys, fireworks and new clothes, cooking utensils and fish, as people crowd around, looking, touching and walking on. As the fasting month of Ramadan draws to an end and people look ahead to the …

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Mohammad Ali Hoseini said that the victory of Hezbollah in the 33-day war against the Zionist army ruined the forged awe of the Israeli regime.

KFAR ZABAD, Lebanon — It was born in the Arabian desert more than 1,500 years ago and is now being revived in the battle-scarred greenery of Lebanon. Already its success is heralding a regional renaissance. The pre-Islamic system of environmental protection known as “hima” — Arabic for protected area — …

JIT, West Bank — Fearful that radical Jewish settlers will swoop and steal their olives, Palestinians are turning to an unlikely source of protection to secure this year’s desperately needed harvest. Several hundred Israelis, from left-wing activists to moderate Jewish settlers, regularly volunteer to help Palestinians pick olives, believing that …

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, responding to the recent military moves by the US in the region, said that Americans have brought just two worn out and shabby battleships to the Persian Gulf.

TUNIS (Reuters) — Veteran dissident Moncef Marzouki returned to Tunisia on Saturday and vowed to campaign for democracy, shrugging off government plans to prosecute him for allegedly inciting Tunisians to commit violence. “I come here to carry out my struggle peacefully,” the human rights campaigner told reporters after a flight …