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Russia believes Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi should give up his rule and is prepared to help broker his departure, a senior Russian official said on Friday.
The offer - a change in tone from the Kremlin's previous criticism of Western...
Washington/Deauville - The external financing needs of oil-importing countries in the Middle East and North Africa will exceed US$160 billion over the next three years and donor countries must step in to help, the International Monetary Fund said on...
Group of Eight leaders promised US$20 billion in aid to new Arab democracies on Friday when they met in France to endorse a program aimed at fostering changes sweeping North Africa and the Middle East.
Leaders were concluding their annual two-day...
Mohammed Fathi worked his brush gently over an icon of Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, removing soot from its surface inside a church gutted in an attack by Islamist militants this month.
"It takes a lot of careful work to do that," Fathi said...
Deauville, France - Arab leaders were wrong to block Internet access in an effort to quell popular revolts as such moves only hurt their own economies, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said on Thursday.
Speaking at a briefing on the sidelines of the...
Dozens of Yemenis were killed in overnight gunbattles in the capital, a government official said on Thursday, as fighting aimed at toppling President Ali Abdullah Saleh threatened to ignite civil war.
The defense ministry said at least 28 people...
Leaders of the Group of Eight began gathering in France on Thursday to endorse aid to new Arab democracies, but wrangling among Western and developing economies over who runs the IMF may take up much of their time.
Overnight violence in Yemen, one...
Khartoum/Juba - Tens of thousands of people fled as north Sudanese militias accused of helping seize the contested Abyei border region over the weekend moved further south, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
Armed groups, thought to be northern...
Western states are expected to push for Syria to be referred to the UN Security Council after UN inspectors gave independent support to US allegations that Damascus was building a covert nuclear reactor, diplomats say.
In a report to member states...
London/Tripoli - President Barack Obama warned Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi on Wednesday there would be "no let up" in pressure on him to go, following a second successive night of heavy NATO bombing in Tripoli.
Six loud explosions rocked...
