A car bomb on Tuesday rocked Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold of Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah movement, injuring at least 53 people, government and military sources said.

Oil minister M. Veerappa Moily arrived in Baghdad on Saturday with a high level delegation as India looks to expand cooperation in energy and other sectors with post-war Iraq.

The African Union suspended Egypt from the continental body Friday after the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi, in line with its strict rules against unconstitutional changes of government.

Senior Egyptian jurist Adly Mahmoud Mansour has suddenly found himself in the spotlight as the civilian face of the Army-backed interim government following dramatic ouster of the Arab country’s first democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi.

Egypt was on edge Wednesday after President Mohamed Morsi refused to quit hours before an Army ultimatum expires, following deadly violence during rival mass protests in Egypt’s worst crisis since its 2011 revolution.

A bombing on Baghdad’s southern outskirts killed seven people Wednesday, the latest in a three-day wave of bloodshed targeting Shiite Muslims that has left 113 dead amid fears Iraq is slipping back into all-out sectarian war.

A UAE court today jailed most of 94 Islamists, including 13 women, up to 15 years after convicting them with a plot to overthrow the country’s rulers.

Attacks north of Baghdad have left 41 dead as the UN said more than 2,500 were killed in the past three months, highlighting concerns that Iraq is slipping back into all-out war.

Iraqi officials say a bomb has gone off in an outdoor market in west Baghdad, one of two attacks in Sunni-majority parts of the country that have left seven dead.

Qatar’s state minister for internal affairs is tipped to succeed powerful Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani as prime minister in an expected cabinet reshuffle by the new emir, sources said Wednesday.