DAMASCUS- Syria's regime captured from rebel fighters a key town near Lebanon on Monday, as doubts were cast on any breakthrough at a Geneva peace conference slated for next month. France's foreign...
JOHANNESBURG- Nelson Mandela was like a "magician" who conjured a united nation out of a country teetering on the brink of war, South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu said Monday. "Everybody was...
CAIRO, Mona Salem- Three activists at the forefront of Egypt's 2011 uprising went on trial Sunday over an unlicensed and violent demonstration, as a new military-installed government seeks to clamp...
MANAMA- British Foreign Secretary William Hague warned Friday that the conflict in Syria threatens to tear the country apart completely unless a solution is found in 2014. "If the conflict continues,...
CAIRO- Egyptian police arrested dozens of Islamist protesters on Friday when they dispersed rallies across the country, the interior ministry said. Riot police fired tear gas at seperate protests in...
CAIRO- Egypt's Salafist Al-Nur party said Thursday it will rally supporters to vote for a new draft constitution in a referendum fiercely opposed by the Muslim Brotherhood. "It is an amended...
CAIRO- A Cairo court on Wednesday freed on bail 23 Egyptian protesters from secular youth movements who were detained last week for holding an unauthorised demonstration, judicial sources said. The...
RAMALLAH, Hossam Ezzedine- A French report ruling out poisoning in Yasser Arafat's 2004 death, rather than laying to rest suspicions of an assassination, has prompted denial and incredulity from...
BENGHAZI- A Libyan security forces member was killed Monday in the eastern city of Benghazi and four people were wounded in nearby Derna when gunmen fired on a protest against insecurity, officials...
WASHINGTON- A top US official Tuesday refused to be drawn on whether a new Egyptian constitution would pave the way for democratic reforms, saying it was up to Egyptians to approve the draft charter....
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