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Tripoli - Libyan rebels trying to overthrow Muammar Qadhafi have pushed to within about 80km (50 miles) of the capital, a rebel spokesman told Reuters on Monday, in the biggest rebel breakthrough in weeks.
In neighboring Tunisia three Libyan...
Life in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed last week.
Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral...
Egyptian steel magnate Ahmed Ezz, a top ally of ousted President Hosni Mubarak who is being investigated for graft, faces fresh charges of profiteering and squandering public funds, state news agency MENA reported.
Ezz, who quit his senior role in...
Egypt's pound weakened to its lowest since mid-April after the government said it had no need for a previously arranged US$3 billion financing deal from the IMF or US$1 billion in budget support proposed by the World Bank.
The pound currently...
Sanaa - Wounded Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has not been seen in public since an attack on his palace earlier this month, will make a media appearance within 48 hours, his media secretary said on Sunday.
"The president will appear...
Egypt will not borrow from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund after revising its budget and cutting the forecast deficit, even though a loan had been agreed, Finance Minister Samir Radwan said on Saturday.
The 2011/12 deficit in...
LONDON-- From the streets of Cairo and Madrid to online forums and social media sites, "leaderless" protests are on the rise. But the very qualities that led to their short-term success may condemn them to failure in the long run....
Free elections this year could set Egypt on a new democratic course, but the government must also end emergency law and military trials for civilians, the head of Amnesty International has said.
Egyptian elections were marred for decades by thuggery...
Rome - A former Libyan foreign minister who has defected to the opposition said on Thursday he believed Muammar Qadhafi realized he could no longer stay in Libya and may leave within a few weeks.
Abdurrahaman Shalgam, one of the highest-ranking...
WASHINGTON--Egypt has informed the International Monetary Fund of plans to revise the country's budget, an IMF spokesman said on Thursday.
IMF spokesman David Hawley told reporters that the IMF was looking into implications of the proposed...
