Nazareth, Israel - Israeli investors had reason to celebrate last month with the news that Israel may soon be joining the club of oil-producing states, in addition to its recent finds of large natural gas deposits off the coast.
Shares in Givot Olam, an Israeli oil exploration company, rallied...
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Kosovo holds key local elections
Key local elections, overseen by more than 28,000 election monitors, have opened in Kosovo.
Polling stations opened their doors at 7am (06:00GMT) on Sunday and were expected to close 12 hours later.
More than 1.7 million people are eligible to vote in the polls that are being closely watched...
Bangladesh court convicts two of war crimes
A Bangladesh war crimes court has found a British-based Muslim leader and a US citizen guilty of atrocities committed during the war of independence and sentenced them to death in absentia.
Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuz Zaman Khan were tried in absentia on charges of killing 18 intellectuals...
Iran supreme leader backs nuclear talks
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has voiced his support for Iran's talks with world powers over its disputed nuclear programme while expressing pessimism about them.
"No one should see our negotiating team as compromisers," Khamenei, Iran's top decision-maker on its nuclear drive, was...
US secretary of state arrives in Egypt
US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Cairo, on his first visit to Egypt since the army overthrew President Mohamed Morsi in July.
He was expected to stay in the country for just a few hours on Sunday.
Kerry began his Cairo day stop with a meeting with Egypt's Foreign Minister...
Egypt's Mubarak cleared in corruption case
Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's imprisoned former ruler, has been cleared in a corruption case by prosecutors.
Judicial officials told the AP news agency that a court on Monday ordered the 85-year-old be cleared in the case that alleged he embezzled funds for presidential palaces.
Mubarak, who was arrested...
