POLITICS

Shiite militants backing regime of Bashar al-Assad against rebels in Syria.

Clashes and killings threaten to derail Egypt transitional process.

Trial of 'Captain Coward' adjourned in Grosseto after his defence team refuses to work

A car bomb exploded on Tuesday (July 9) in a Beirut stronghold district of the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group that has been fighting in Syria's civil war, wounding at least 38 people.

Interim leader stipulates presidential polls within six months and plans to amend constitution.

Former president given star treatment by party faithful at special UMP meeting to discuss bankruptcy threat.

Exclusive documents by Al Jazeera shine light on bin Laden's years as a fugitive in Pakistan.

NSA whistleblower claims British surveillance more intrusive than US Prism programme.

Interior Ministry claims 'terrorist group' tried to storm Cairo barracks before 51 Morsi supporters were shot dead.

Pontiff Jorge Mario Bergoglio in first-ever pastoral visit to Italy's southern island of Lampedusa.

India probing Pakistan terror outfits' links with Rohingyas and explosions.

US secretary of state John Kerry with wife on Nantucket Island when she fell ill.

The death toll in violence on Monday (July 8) at the Cairo headquarters of the Republican Guard rose to 42, Egyptian state television said, after the Muslim Brotherhood accused the security forces of attacking protesters.

Muslim Brotherhood labels killing a massacre and calls for uprising after army fires on pro-Morsi sit-in demonstration in Cairo.

Asiana Airlines pilot Lee Kang-kook was still in training and had just 43 hours' experience flying Boeing 777.

Army commander Abdul Fatah al-Sissi deliberates over what action to take on toppled president

Home Secretary Theresa May declares victory in 10-year battle to have hate preacher sent home.

Two Chinese killed as Asiana Airlines flight crash-lands and bursts into flames.

Ousted president Mohamed Morsi and other Brotherhood members to face questions about earlier uprising which expelled Hosni Mubarak.

Mina Aboud Sharween shot dead by gunmen in first sectarian attack since Morsi's overthrow.

Ansar al-Shariah also vows to impose stricter Islamic Shariah law on Egypt.

After a 10-year legal battle, radical cleric will be taken from Belmarsh to RAF Northolt and flown to airstrip in Jordanian desert.

Other Latin American nations said to be ready to shelter NSA whistleblower.

Egypt's key cities Cairo and Alexandria witness widespread violence as army continues crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood.

Fugitive refuses to name countries to dodge US pressure on them in extradition fight.

A yes vote for Scottish independence could see Trident nuclear missiles kicked out of the Clyde, says James Kelly.

Coup leaders apologizing for the consequences of their actions is not something that happens very often. In Bamako, the capital of Mali however, a rare example of it took place on 26 June 2013 when Captain Amadou Aya Sanogo did just that in front of an audience which included Interim President Dioncounda Traoré, recently reconciled factions of the Mali Army, religious and tribal leaders and the media.

Gen Mohamed Ahmed Fareed appointed head of security as military tries to consolidate grip on fractured country.

French Academy Award winner ignores international protocol and Georgian law for sitdown with separatist leaders.