At least 22 people were killed in a bus collision and three died when a train derailed in separate accidents south of Cairo Wednesday during a busy holiday travel time.
US President Barack Obama floated the idea of joint action with Turkey to capture the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published on Wednesday.
The Palestinian economy could easily double, while sky-high unemployment and poverty would plummet if the Israeli occupation were lifted, the United Nations development agency said yesterday.
A preliminary report issued on Tuesday into an Emirates Boeing 777 crash-landing at Dubai airport said the aircraft was attempting to take off again following an aborted landing during wind shear.
A US Navy coastal patrol ship changed course after a fast attack craft from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps came within 100 yards (91 meters) of it in the central Gulf on Sunday, two US Defense Department officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
A suspected chlorine gas attack on an opposition-held neighbourhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo caused dozens of cases of suffocation on Tuesday, rescue workers and a monitoring group said.
Turkey-backed Syrian rebels would like to see a "safe zone" set up in areas of the border they are capturing from Islamic State, but this would need an agreement between the United States, Turkey and Russia, a rebel commander said on Tuesday.
Israeli rescuers pulled two more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed Tel Aviv building site Tuesday, bringing the death toll to four as searches continued, the army said.
The UN said Tuesday it has delivered food supplies to more than 30,000 residents of Qayyarah for the first time in two years after Iraqi forces expelled jihadists from the northern town.
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11:56 AM - 21 July 2015