The Palestinian leadership is to petition the International Criminal Court in The Hague if it finds proof that the late Yasser Arafat was poisoned, an official said yesterday.

Remains of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have been exhumed in Ramallah, in the West Bank, to help determine the cause of his death.

Egypt’s justice minister said Monday that a resolution was “imminent” to the political crisis over President Mohammed Morsi’s decision to grant himself sweeping new powers, a move that has touched off days of violent street protests.

Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian president, will meet senior judges on Monday to try to ease a crisis over his new powers which has set off protests reminiscent of last year’s revolution which brought him to power.

A fire has broken out in a 12-storey building housing four different garment factories in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, police say, just days after a blaze killed at least 110 textile workers in a different facility.

Egypt’s ruling Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) denied on Friday that President Mursi would retract a recent constitutional declaration granting him sweeping powers.

43 children were killed while 432 others were injured during the 8-day Israeli occupation aggression on the Gaza Strip according to Palestinian medical sources.

Pakistan has suspended mobile phone services in major cities, a move officials say is necessary to prevent terror attacks from marring Shia Muslim processions.

The body of slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was given an Islamic burial and buried at sea amid high secrecy, new emails released by the US Defence Department detailing the procedures of his burial have revealed.

At least twenty six more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been killed in Israeli latest raids, raising the toll to 139, while fighters from Gaza fired rockets that killed two Israelis, bringing the death toll in Israel to five since Wednesday.