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The Senate passed legislation Thursday to let the State Department settle all remaining lawsuits against Libya by U.S. terror victims.

A suicide car bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle against the wall of a police station south of Mosul on Thursday, killing three policemen and wounding four others, authorities said.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has ordered the release of all Hamas activists detained in recent days by his security forces.

Like most Syrians, Samer Zayat has no love for Israel. He was a little uneasy when Syria announced in late May that it was holding indirect talks on a peace settlement with its old nemesis.

RIYADH * A Briton was found stabbed to death yesterday in his flat in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich eastern city of Al-Khobar, the Saudi interior ministry said.

International price hikes and the growing need for subsidies to meet the poor majority’s needs may slow down growth.

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said that it assigned its ‘BBB+’ insurer financial strength and counterparty credit ratings to insurer Emirates Insurance Co.

CAIRO, Egypt - The 22-nation Arab League has named a new envoy to Iraq. Hani Khalaf, a retired Egyptian diplomat, will be the League’s next envoy, replacing Moroccan Moukhtar Lamani, who resigned last year to …

Thousands of Hashid tribesmen supported government troops in fighting against the Shia rebels in the north.

President Bush hailed a new “degree of durability” in security gains in Iraq Thursday, saying it should permit him to announce further U.S. troop reductions later this year.