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Egyptians counted the economic cost of more than two weeks of turmoil on Wednesday as protesters on Cairo's Tahrir Square looked ahead to their next big push to oust President Hosni Mubarak later in the week.

While the nomination is a part of the campaign to build a Palestinian state, tourism experts are hoping for a surge in arrivals post Bethlehem’s inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites list.

One of the many ironies of American politics is that while top Republican politicians are eager to show their support for the state of Israel, Jewish voters in the U.S. remain overwhelmingly in the camp of the Democratic Party.

A Chechen warlord – one of the most wanted men in Russia – has taken responsibility for carrying out the suicide bomb attack last month which killed 36 people and injured 180 in a Moscow airport.

George W. Bush, the former president of the U.S., cancelled a trip to Switzerland for next weekend due to potential protest demonstrations by human rights groups over the treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay as well as the threat of his arrest

President Hosni Mubarak held onto power Monday, defying a popular uprising against his autocratic rule, after the government opened talks with opposition groups to resolve Egypt's deepest crisis in 30 years.

Astonished by the uprising in Egypt, Western countries anxious to be on the right side of history have started to reassess ties to army-backed Arab strongmen stubbornly opposed to democracy.

Gas supplies from Egypt to Israel could resume within a week after a fire at a gas metering station, an Israeli partner in the pipeline said on Sunday, without referring to sabotage as reported in Egypt.

Egypt's new vice president, Omar Suleiman, has long sought to demonize the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in his contacts with skeptical U.S. officials, leaked diplomatic cables show, raising questions whether he can act as an honest broker in the country's political crisis.

Egypt tried to get the nation back to work on Sunday with banks reopening, and the vice president held unprecedented talks with a banned Islamist group and other opponents about their demand that President Hosni Mubarak quit.

Global oil prices could exceed $110 a barrel if political unrest in Egypt continues, a member of Kuwait's Supreme Petroleum Council said on Sunday.

Cruise enthusiasts can look forward to sailing across some of the hidden harbors and secluded coves of the world this year as Windstar Cruises offers its guests a choice of diverse itineraries in 2011 and winter 2012.

Two Eurofighter Typhoons of the Italian Air Force arrived at Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru, India, on Friday to showcase their outstanding operational capabilities at “Asia’s premiere air show,” Aero India 2011.

The following is an edited interview with Ellen Lust, a professor of political science at Yale University

Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians marched peacefully in Cairo on Friday to demand an immediate end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, but there was no sign of his generals, or his U.S. allies, squeezing him out just yet.

Among the issues raised by the recent outbreak of civil unrest in the Middle East and North Africa is the rapidly growing population in some of these countries. This subject has particularly stark implications for Israel.

Iran should investigate claims that the Stuxnet computer virus has caused major harm to its first nuclear power station, a senior official said Friday after suggestions the plant could become a new Chernobyl.

Egypt's government struggled to regain control of an angry nation, inviting Islamist opponents to political talks as protesters demanding the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak battled with his supporters on the streets.

Kenya has halted plans to build a toll road through its capital, its roads minister said on Thursday, a day after World Bank said it would not fund the project as it did not comply with its financing standards.

Cyberwarfare of the kind waged against Iran last year offers advanced nations an alternative to ugly military force with its moral costs, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday.

Here is a collection of reaction to the latest escalation of civil unrest and violence in Egypt from around the world: