NAHR BARED (AFP) — Two Red Cross workers and three soldiers were killed on Monday around a besieged camp in northern Lebanon where the army has struggled to crush Islamist gunmen for the past three weeks.

Monarch in Cairo today for talks with Mubarak AMMAN (JT) — King Abdullah on Monday reiterated that there is no question of forming a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation or federation at the current time, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

One person has been killed in violence outside a polling station in Egypt’s northern Nile Delta region, as Egyptians go to the polls in parliamentary elections. A number of opposition groups boycotted Monday’s election, the first held under constitutional amendments approved by a referendum in March, but the Muslim Brotherhood …