French officials said on Wednesday they may never discover why an Air France aircraft crashed into the Atlantic killing 228 people and cautioned they might not even find the plane's black boxes on the ocean floor. Officials in Brazil said

Israel is not planning to bomb Iran, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday, addressing speculation that it might launch a military operation to attempt to destroy the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. Israel, widely believed to be the Middle East's

President Barack Obama began his latest bid to repair ties with the Muslim world Wednesday by seeking the counsel of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's two holiest sites in Mecca and Medina. "The United States and Saudi

Raising her palms in thanks, Sahra Abdi says an African Union (AU) force (AMISOM) in the Somali capital saved her daughter and mended her shattered knee. "May God reward AMISOM for treating us free of charge," she said, her child

Clashes Tuesday between security forces and demonstrators have left several casualties in a protest against house demolitions near Damascus, Syrian state news agency SANA said on Wednesday. The electronic newsletter Champress, which is close to the government and among the

Climate change poses potential threat to security that could lead to conflict in the Middle East, a report presented Tuesday at the American University of Beirut (AUB) by Oli Brown of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) says. Brown

The American University of Beirut (AUB) announced Tuesday the candidates for four honorary doctorates to be awarded at a ceremony on campus, in Assembly Hall at noon on Commencement Day, June 27, 2009. This year's recipients are Kuwaiti Abdalatif Yousef

A new report assessing public perceptions of corruption has found that 36 percent of Lebanese respondents see domestic political parties as the most corrupt organizations in the country. The report, "Global Corruption Barometer 2009," was released on Wednesday by anti-corruption

The family of Hussein Khalifeh has all their television sets and cell phones on 24 hours per day waiting for updates on the missing Air France jet. Khalifeh, who hails from the southern town of Qnarit, was on a business

ArmInfo. Azerbaijani Mass Media disseminated another fantasy. This time it blames Armenia for using allegedly a secret unknown weapon. This fantasy of the Azerbaijani media was a follows: 'Armenian armed forces have started to fire on the residential areas of

ArmInfo. 'I am deeply sure we shall return to the issue of creation of CSTO Collective Rapid Deployment Forces and will finally prepare an agreement on creation of CRDF for signing by the presidents on June 14, just before the

ArmInfo. Today, the maximum buying rates at commercial banks of Yerevan were 369,5 drams for 1 dollar, 521 drams for 1 EUR and 11,9 drams for 1 Russian ruble. The minimum selling rates stood at 371 drams for 1 dollar,

President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev will expectedly hold negotiations with the counterparts from Azerbaijan and Armenia today. The programme of the Forum is quite extended. S. Petersburg will become a center of the world's political life for several

ArmInfo. The California State Senate passed Senate Bill 234, the "Genocide Awareness Act," reported the Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly). The Assembly, an early proponent of the measure introduced by State Senator Mark Wyland (R), activated its ARAMAC grassroots network