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Corruption panel to quiz Mubarak son - 04/07/2011

CAIRO- An Egyptian panel has summoned ousted president Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal for questioning in the latest corruption probe against figures of the former regime, state media said Wednesday....

US right-wing media host Beck quits Fox daily show - 04/07/2011

NEW YORK- Right-wing radio host and television presenter Glenn Beck -- one of the most controversial media figures in the United States -- is leaving his daily show on the Fox News Channel to develop...

Fresh arrests in British tabloid hacking scandal - 04/06/2011

LONDON- Police investigating Britain's phone hacking scandal arrested Tuesday the chief reporter and a former news editor of the country's top-selling newspaper. London's Metropolitan Police said...

Google, Facebook take France to court over privacy - 04/06/2011

PARIS- Internet heavyweights including Google and Facebook are to file a complaint with France's highest judicial body against a decree obliging them to keep web users' personal data for a year....

US warns citizens to avoid Lebanon - 04/05/2011

WASHINGTON- US citizens should avoid traveling to Lebanon, the State Department said Monday in a travel warning two days after a US embassy group was attacked by Lebanese youth. "The Department of...

Brega battle rages as another Kadhafi man quits - 04/04/2011

NEAR BREGA, Marc Burleigh- The United States agreed to extend air strikes in Libya into Monday as the oil town of Brega saw heavy fighting, with rebel forces advancing only to fall back after an...

Yemen protester killed amid Saleh defiance - 04/04/2011

SANAA, Hammoud Mounassar- Yemeni police killed an anti-regime protester and wounded scores more on Sunday, medics and witnesses said, as President Ali Abdullah Saleh called for an end to protests...

Obama condemns Koran burning 'bigotry' - 04/03/2011

WASHINGTON- President Barack Obama on Saturday condemned a US pastor's burning of the Koran, after violent protests at what he called an act of "extreme intolerance and bigotry" left 17 dead in...

Syria arrests dozens in crackdown - 04/03/2011

DAMASCUS- Syrian security forces arrested 46 people on Saturday, rights groups said a day after nine people were killed as thousands of pro-reform protesters took to the streets on the Muslim day of...

Kadhafi tanks firing on Misrata homes: rebels - 04/03/2011

BENGHAZI- The battle for Misrata raged on Saturday, with rebels accusing Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's forces of "crimes against humanity" after they fired rockets indiscriminately on the besieged...
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