To the ire of Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia resume efforts to re-establish Palestinian national unity, reports Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah

Two bomb attacks rocked the Algerian capital, Algiers, on Tuesday killing at least 62 people and some 100 injured with foreigners among the casualties. Ten of those killed were Algerian UN employees...

Just as an agreement on Lebanon's president appeared within reach, political horse-trading raised fears of more protracted struggle, Lucy Fielder reports from Beirut

In the Gulf, Defense Secretary Gates has a hard time defending the US line that a nuclear Iran is a nightmare while a nuclear Israel is just fine, reports Rasha Saad

A crisis meeting indicates that Israel faces a strategic emergency following a US intelligence report that sees no threat in Iran, writes Saleh Al-Naami

Africa and Europe are struggling to match dreams with reality, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Neither the EU-Africa summit nor French proposals to establish a Euro-Mediterranean union seem able to narrow the gap between the two continents, reports Doaa El-Bey

While it appears that a relative thaw has occurred in US-Iran relations, the future of Gulf region strategic alignments is uncertain, writes Dina Ezzat