NEW US PENALTIES WILL GREET IRAN’S NEW LEADER
By BRADLEY KLAPPER In this picture released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader’s office, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, gives his official seal of approval to…
Middle East
IN EGYPT, MORSI’S LOYALISTS DEFY ORDER TO DISBAND
An Egyptian child stands next to poster of the Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi outside Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where supporters have installed a camp and hold daily rallies at Nasr…
US: MIDEAST DEAL IN 9 MONTHS TARGET, NOT DEADLINE
A Palestinian villager works on his land that overlooks the Israeli settlement of Mattityahu, background, in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Pressing ahead…
OBAMA DELICATELY WADES INTO MIDEAST TALKS
By JULIE PACE Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, right, and Yitzhak Molcho, left, chief negotiator on the Israeli negotiating team with the Palestinians, arrive at the State Department in Washington,…
EGYPT ARRESTS MORE ISLAMISTS AS EU OFFICIAL VISITS
By AYA BATRAWY In this image released by the Egyptian Presidency, Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief, left, meets with interim prime minister, Mohamed ElBaradei in Cairo, Egypt, Monday,…
IN EGYPT BLOODSHED, DOZENS OF MORSI BACKERS KILLED
By AYA BATRAWY and TONY G. GABRIEL The corpse of a supporter for Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi, killed during clashes with security forces at Nasr City, where pro-Morsi protesters…
KERRY SAYS EGYPT IS AT ‘PIVOTAL MOMENT’ IN HISTORY
In this Friday, July 26, 2013, photo released on Saturday, July 27, by Egyptian army, opponents of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi protest at Tahrir Square during a protest in…
ISRAEL TO VOTE ON FREEING PALESTINIAN PRISONERS
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and KARIN LAUB In this Friday, July 26, 2013, photo, Issa Masoud, 75, father of Omar, 40, who was arrested in May 1993 for killing an Israeli…