BUCHAREST, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Families and individuals whose homes were damaged or destroyed by severe flooding in Romania will receive emergency financial aid, according to Raed Arafat, head of the ...

More than 680 houses in Suceava country and 170 houses in Neamţ county were impacted in the flash floods that hit northeastern Romania at the end of last week. Forty-one houses were completely ...

More countries recognizing a hypothetical entity called “State of Palestine” is positive in terms of its symbolic impact in ...

Arafat’s assassination confronts Israeli workers with the fact that the Middle East’s much-vaunted “sole democracy” is run by military gangsters who function as the guardian of Washington ...

Suha Arafat tells ABC News her husband was murdered. BEIRUT, Lebanon— -- In the wake of an independent Swiss report that found Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had "unexpected high activity ...

In 1974, Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), declared before the United Nations that he came "bearing an olive branch and a… ...

If after Arafat the Palestinians rise to the occasion by producing a leadership able and willing to honour its ceasefire commitments under the international “road map”, this impasse might at ...

During Yasser Arafat final illness, questions were raised about what will happen to millions of dollars of funds controlled by the Palestinian leader, following his death. Yasser Arafat took personal ...

Arafat was born Mohammed Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini in Cairo, Egypt, on Aug. 24, 1929. As a young boy, he lived with relatives in Palestine, a region then under British rule.

Yasser Arafat, who died yesterday aged 75, was the unchallenged leader of the Palestinian people and their movement for statehood over more than 30 years. 12 November 2004 • 12:01am His ...

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband’s… ...

For decades Yasser Arafat was the embodiment of the Palestinian cause. To his supporters he was the only man capable of keeping Palestinian hopes alive and at the forefront of global consciousness. To ...