CAIRO (AP) - Hundreds of people crowded the capital's main international airport hoping for a flight out on Saturday but Western carriers were canceling, delaying or suspending service after days of violent unrest.

A suicide bomber has killed the deputy governor of Afghanistan's Kandahar province, dealing a blow to attempts to nurture local government in the wake of a US offensive into Taliban strongholds.

ADDIS ABABA - An African Union panel on the Ivory Coast crisis will aim to help Alassane Ouattara "exercise power" through a negotiated political deal, the bloc's commission chief said on Saturday.

MOSCOW - Russian authorities on Saturday announced that they had identified a 20-year-old native of the North Caucasus region as the suicide bomber who killed 35 people at Domodedovo Airport's international arrivals hall - a location ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan on Saturday said its legal process should be respected after the US embassy called for the immediate release of an American diplomat who was arrested after he killed two Pakistanis this week.

TUNIS - Calm returned to Tunisia's capital on Saturday a day after a new transition cabinet was sworn in and interim Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi vowed a transition to democracy and an economic revival.

Photo: AP The unrest in Egypt is sending shock waves throughout the Middle East, including in neighboring Israel. Israel is extremely concerned about the situation in Egypt because President Hosni Mubarak has preserved the peace treaty between the two ...

Nelson Mandela is one of the world's most revered statesmen, who led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Twenty-four hours after a Taliban suicide bomber attacked the Finest Supermarket here, the family's silver Toyota Corolla was still parked in front.

With global news networks broadcasting wall-to-wall coverage of popular uprisings in Arab capitals, there is renewed focus on discontent in Yemen's mountain capital, Sanaa.

Fast-moving developments are bringing tens of thousands of anti-government protesters into Cairo's Tahrir Square, not far from the Egyptian Museum, where many of the nation's most treasured antiquities are stored.

CAIRO Jan 29 (Reuters) - Police killed at least three protesters on Saturday when they tried to storm the Interior Ministry, Al Jazeera television reported.

JERUSALEM - Palestinian hospital officials say a Palestinian teenager shot by an Israeli settler has died in the hospital. Yousef Ekhlaiel was shot in the head during a clash with settlers near the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The Dutch government froze its official contacts with Iran on Saturday to protest the hanging of a Dutch-Iranian woman in Tehran, the Foreign Ministry said.

Italy is at the mercy of an 18-year-old Moroccan and a dental hygienist. That's Italy, as in one of the founders of the European Union and the world's seventh largest economy.

AMMAN, Jordan - The leader of Jordan's powerful Muslim Brotherhood warned Saturday that unrest in Egypt will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the United States.

LONDON - A 29-year-old Ugandan woman who says she is a lesbian won a last-minute stay of deportation on Friday night from a British High Court judge who heard her lawyers plead that her life would be at risk if she was forced to return ...

Aung San Suu Kyi is seen on a screen during a session at the World Economic Forum. Myanmar pro-democracy dissident Aung San Suu Kyi may not be ready to call for an end to Western sanctions against her troubled country just yet.

By REUTERS A leading candidate for governor of Borno State was fatally shot Friday, along with six other people. Gunmen on motorcycles followed the candidate, Modu Fannami Gubio, from a mosque after Friday Prayer and shot him and six others as they got ...

Sometimes it can be hard to judge when things are moving and when they are not. Stand with your back to the city of Beirut and stare out into the dull-blue waters of the eastern Mediterranean and some trick of the light makes it ...