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Initial results of Egypt's first free election in six decades will emerge on Thursday, with Islamist parties expecting to command a majority in parliament, hard on the heels of victories by their counterparts in Tunisia and Morocco.

Herman Cain should do himself and the Republican Party a favor and drop out of the presidential race -- but not for the reasons you think.

New satellite images of Iran show just how serious the explosion at a military base on Nov. 12 really was.

For most of the Republican nomination race thus far, Jon Huntsman has been considered little more than a side note. But while his national poll numbers remain very low, he is gaining support in New Hampshire. What are his positions?

Meet Lynsey Addario - a Pulitzer-winning news photographer who says being a woman works in her favor when she is out covering war zones, infamous for their gross ill-treatment of women.

The ostrich is a noble animal but not a proper model for an appellate advocate, Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, criticizing a plaintiffs lawyer for ignoring a court precedent.

Benetton’s controversial ‘Unhate’ advertising campaign featuring national leaders kissing each other, has been unveiled along the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv and other Israeli highways.

The Israeli Defense Ministry issued an apology Monday, for mistreating Pulitzer Prize-winning American news photographer Lynsey Addario, who was in Israel recently on a New York Times assignment.

Iran continues to tell Israel and the United States that any attack will have dire consequences on Zionist regimes.

Egyptians voted in droves on Monday in the first election since the fall of longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak, giving Islamists a chance to make political gains even as the army generals who replaced him cling to power.

Egyptians began voting Monday morning in the first big test of a transition born in popular revolutionary euphoria that soured into distrust of the generals who replaced their master, Hosni Mubarak.

Jehane Noujaim -- director of Control Room, a 2004 documentary about Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera -- was arrested and later released after participating in a protest in Egypt, according to multiple reports on Twitter.

Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, has been accused of flip-flopping on a number of issues. So what are his political positions?

Ancient coins from 17 AD discovered from an excavation site underneath Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City have overturned beliefs about the origins of the wall, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday.

U.S. chemical giant DuPont on Wednesday announced a multi-year partnership with Israel-based biotechnology company Evogene Ltd. to develop a strain of soybeans that carry improved resistance to rust, a fungal disease devastating to the crop.

Half of all Americans think that bombing Iran is necessary to stop the country's burgeoning nuclear weapons program if sanctions fail, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. And 60 percent of Americans think that economic sanctions will fail.

For the first time since the 1980s, the city of Tel Aviv has hosted the first major fashion week in Israel in cooperation with Italy.

Republicans faced off in a national security-themed debate at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. and broadcast on CNN. The gathering did little to change the dynamic of a race that has seen a carousel of candidates tested as a possible better-option to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

At the CNN National Security Debate in Washington, D.C., Romney, Huntsman and Paul proved themselves the strongest GOP candidates, while Bachmann and Perry barely squeaked by and Cain and Santorum were left floundering. Here, read the top quotes of the night, and get a full rundown of the Republican candidates' performances.

Israel stepped up the rhetoric against Iran Sunday, as Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the time has come to deal with the country and its nuclear program.

Amid increasing concerns over Iran's nuclear program, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog board adopted almost unanimously on Friday a resolution to implement safeguards in the matter.