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When protests ousted Hosni Mubarak in February, many Egyptians unearthed old grievances against employers, politicians and neighbors, demanding justice from a legal system they had long seen as favoring the elite.
"The barriers have come down,...
Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak, who faces trial for the killing of protesters, is in a stable condition but will not be moved for now from a Red Sea resort hospital where he has been detained, a source told the Reuters news agency.
The...
An Egyptian Islamist group that took up arms against the state in the 1980s and 1990s wants to form a political party and contest the country's first free elections in decades, one of its senior members said on Tuesday.
Gama'a al-Islamiya...
Qatar is drawing up potential projects worth at least US$10 billion to help Egypt's economy after the popular uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February, al-Ahram newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Egypt has been asking donors and the...
Egypt's public prosecutor has unfrozen the assets of 13 businessmen on a list of people barred from trading because of graft investigations launched after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the Cairo stock exchange said on Monday.
The businessmen...
NATO warplanes hammered Tripoli on Tuesday with some of their heaviest air strikes yet after the United States said Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would "inevitably" be forced from power.
At least 12 huge explosions rocked the capital in...
Washington - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would set forth his view of a future Middle East peace in an address to US Congress on Tuesday and reaffirmed Israel would never return to its old, narrow borders.
"I will outline a vision...
Karachi - Troops recaptured a Pakistani naval air force base on Monday after a 16-hour battle with as few as six Taliban gunmen who had launched their attack to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden
The assault casts fresh doubt on the military'...
The European Union tightened sanctions against Syria by imposing restrictions on President Bashar al-Assad on Monday, raising pressure on his government to end violence against protesters, EU diplomats said.
EU foreign ministers agreed at a meeting...
Yemeni loyalist forces fought a gunbattle on Monday with opponents of entrenched President Ali Abdullah Saleh one day after he backed out of a Gulf-brokered accord for him to step down.
The clashes in the capital Sanaa cast fresh doubt on prospects...
