HEBRON- Two Palestinians were shot and wounded, one of them critically, in an altercation with settlers near the southern West Bank town of Hebron on Friday, Palestinian medics said.
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CAIRO- The uprising in Tunisia, which led to the ouster of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 14, has had a ripple effect across the Arab world:
EGYPT
January 25 sees the start of...
CAIRO, Mona Salem- Protests calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak raged in Egypt for a third straight day on Thursday as leading dissident Mohamed ElBaradei returned home, offering to...
SANAA, Hammoud Mounassar- Thousands of Yemenis, apparently inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, held a mass demonstration on Thursday calling on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit after holding...
BEIRUT, Jocelyne Zablit- Hezbollah-backed Najib Mikati was named Lebanon's prime minister-designate on Tuesday, giving the Shiite militant group increased leverage in the deeply divided country, to...
CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush- "Mubarak, Leave," chanted thousands of Egyptian demonstrators who took to the streets on Tuesday to express their rejection of a regime they say has become synonymous with...
WASHINGTON- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she is "encouraged" by what she sees as moves in Tunisia toward inclusive elections as soon as possible.
Clinton gave her assessment...
LIMA- Peru recognized a "free and sovereign" Palestinian state on Monday, joining a recent wave of Latin American countries.
"Today the government communicated to the ambassador of Palestine in...
TUNIS- A senior US envoy visiting Tunisia on Monday to press for democratic reforms and new elections said Washington was ready to offer support following the ouster of president Zine El Abidine Ben...
TUNIS, Imed Lamloum- Hundreds of Tunisians defied a night-time curfew and camped out in front of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi's office Sunday in a bid to force the government to resign...
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