Two Muslim men have been charged in Ireland after a probe into an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who drew the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, a report has said. Ali Charaf Damache, 44 and from Algeria, appeared in court charged with sending a menacing text message, said Irish state broadcaster RTE. Abdul Salam Monsour ...

Irish police have charged two men from Algeria and Libya with minor offenses following a weeklong investigation into Muslim extremists allegedly involved in efforts to kill a Swedish artist. Ali Charafe Damache, a 49-year-old Algerian, was charged Monday with sending a threatening text message. A Libyan who used ...

Lebanon has rejected "for administrative reasons" Libya's invitation to an Arab summit later this month, the foreign ministry said on Monday. "The invitation was received by the Lebanese embassy in Damascus, which is not authorised to receive and respond to this invitation for administrative reasons," the ministry said in a statement. Last week a top government official said that ...

Lebanon's president will not attend an Arab League summit in Libya because of a dispute between both countries over the 1978 disappearance of a leading Shiite cleric, a top official said on Friday. "President Michel Sleiman will not take part in the summit in Libya based on a request by speaker of parliament Nabih Berri," the government official, who ...