SANAA, Hammoud Mounassar- At least seven protesters were killed and dozens wounded on Tuesday as gunmen loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened fire on demonstrators in the Yemeni capital,...
Experts hailed the phase III trial under way at 11 sites in sub-Saharan Africa as a promising step toward eradicating the ancient mosquito-borne disease that kills almost 800,000 people yearly, most...
DAMASCUS- The unrest in Syria edged closer to an all-out armed conflict on Monday as 41 people were killed, including 11 soldiers reportedly in clashes with army defectors, as the UN chief urged an...
Behind them is a bridge from which beaten Algerians are falling, while the Eiffel Tower is in the background in front of a green, white and red flag with Algeria's crescent and star, with the number...
ISLAMABAD, Jennie Matthew- A retired Pakistani civil servant nearing 80 may not sound like the most obvious debut author to take the international publishing world by storm, but Jamil Ahmad has done...
DAMASCUS- Nine people were killed on Sunday as Syrian security forces pressed a crackdown on political dissent in three separate hubs of protest against President Bashar al-Assad's regime, activists...
SANAA, Hammoud Mounassar- Yemeni troops shot dead six people in the capital Sunday as they attempted to block a new bid by activists to bring 10 months of protests against veteran President Ali...
JEDDAH- A top Saudi official warned on Saturday that the kingdom will not tolerate any riots at the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca next month, at a time of rising tension with Iran.
"We will...
SIRTE, Jay Deshmukh and Daphne Benoit- Moamer Kadhafi loyalists mounted a fierce counter-attack in the city of Sirte on Saturday, forcing back new regime fighters under a barrage of rockets and...
About 100 men described by witnesses as members of the ultra-conservative Salafist sect firebombed the home of Nessma private television chief Nabil Karoui late Friday in protest at the airing of a...
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