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Tens of thousands of Egyptians began demonstrating Friday, a day after the president issued a decree expanding his office’s powers.

One day after the Egypt-brokered cease-fire, Gazans spilled into the streets to celebrate, as if they had actually won a war with Israel.

Israeli tanks and troops rolled back from their staging grounds on Thursday. For now, the truce still stands.

Twenty-six-year-old Sacha Dratwa and his team have fired off hundreds of tweets since the conflict between Israel and Gaza militants started.

Crude oil prices advanced in Asia Thursday after a private survey showed that China’s manufacturing activity expanded for the first time in more than a year in November.

Though the turkey might not be the national bird for most of the year, millions of Americans will vote with their knives and forks on Thanksgiving.

Pro-Palestinian sentiment has a much louder voice in Egypt's government than in Washington. After the Gaza ceasefire, here's how it could be a problem.

Pope Benedict Wednesday urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make "courageous decisions" to end the Gaza conflict, saying it risked spilling over into the rest of the Middle East.

U.S. Secretary of State Clinton announced a cease-fire agreement from Cairo, as fighting continued in Gaza and a bus exploded in Israel.

The Morsi government stands to gain a lot from brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The hard part? Making it happen.

Israel and Hamas agreed on Wednesday to a ceasefire brokered by Egypt on the eighth day of intensive Israeli fire on the Gaza Strip and militant rocket attacks out of the enclave, Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian sources said.

A bomb exploded on a bus in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday, wounding at least 10 people in what Israeli officials said was a terrorist attack that could complicate the Gaza cease-fire efforts.

China, whose public support for the Palestinians has been a key characteristic of its policy in the Middle East, Wednesday said it would host an envoy of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the crisis in Gaza.

Israeli air strikes and Palestinian rocket fire continued Tuesday night as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks in Jerusalem.

Keen to broker a truce between Hamas and Israel, Egypt is making some bold proclamations on the prospect of peace.

Whether the Israel-Gaza struggle ends in a cease-fire or a ground invasion, the world is finding there are no easy answers to end it.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hastily departed to the Middle East Tuesday from her Asia tour with President Barack Obama attending the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, to join efforts to broker truce between Israel and Palestinian militants.

Police arrested a man who allegedly stabbed a security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, a police spokesman said.

Russia accused the U.S. Monday of blocking U.N. Security Council attempts to condemn the escalating conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militants in Gaza Strip adding that other council members were trying to “filibuster” the issue.

Israeli bombs and Hamas rockets continued to fly as Netanyahu's Cabinet considered a truce offer.

Believe it or not, there are new smells that can be discovered and one new smell has been recently been sniffed. Scientists have named the new smell “olfactory white.”