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MOGADISHU - Somalia's Shebab on Wednesday vowed more attacks after a massive car bombing killed more than 70 people in Mogadishu in the deadliest single strike by the rebels in the country.
"We are promising that attacks against the enemy...
YIXING, China - Prominent environmental activist Wu Lihong plunges his hands into a thick layer of toxic green scum and brown foam floating on one of China's biggest freshwater lakes.
Despite a two-decade battle to clean up the once-scenic Taihu...
Egypt's deputy prime minister said on Sunday that his country was committed to a free market economy, after the ownership of three companies was returned to the state, sparking fears among investors.
"The government will not backtrack on a...
SIRTE, Libya - Streams of civilians fled Muammar Qadhafi’s besieged home town of Sirte on Sunday as the international Red Cross warned of a medical emergency and the battle for the fugitive strongman's bastion raged.
An AFP reporter at a...
An outspoken Jordanian opposition figure and former member of parliament has been pelted with stones while making a speech criticizing the slow pace of reform in the kingdom, an activist with him said.
"He was attacked inside and outside a tent...
Washington - The planet closest to the Sun had plenty of its own heat to release billions of years ago and erupted in vast river-like volcanoes that oozed around its northern pole, a study has found.
For more than three decades, scientists have...
Around 2,000 Egyptian protesters on Friday marched from Tahrir Square to the Defense Ministry’s headquarter in east Cairo, eyewitnesses said.
Heavy military police troops and Central Security Forces were deployed to block the march from...
LA PAZ - Sacha Llorenti, Bolivia's interior minister and a top official in leftist President Evo Morales' government, resigned over a violent weekend crackdown on protesting Amazon natives.
Llorenti has been the focus of fierce criticism...
ASWAN - Egypt's once lucrative tourism industry has started to recover after an uprising in January nearly paralyzed it, but the number of visitors this year will still fall 25 percent, the tourism minister said on Tuesday.
"Egypt has...
DUBAI - A group of 38 women and seven girls arrested last week during a protest against Bahrain's parliamentary by-elections have reportedly been tortured or ill-treated, Amnesty International said.
"They were apprehended without lawyers...
