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MADRID - Activists scuffled with police in London and decried the wealthy in Hong Kong on Saturday as an unprecedented outcry against corporate greed and government cutbacks spread worldwide.
Inspired by America's "Occupy Wall Street"...
A US drone strike on Friday killed the son of an Egyptian cleric tied to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, US-based monitors said, citing a militant group.
Ahmed Omar Abdel Rahman, son of the blind sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, was killed Friday on...
SIRTE, Libya - One of the sons of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi has been arrested in his hometown of Sirte, the new leadership said as its forces mopped up the last isolated pockets of resistance.
"Mutassim Qadhafi was captured at Sirte...
Israel and Hamas have agreed a landmark deal to secure the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for over a thousand Palestinian detainees, officials on both sides said.
If the accord is implemented, it will end an ordeal that...
The head of a private Tunisian TV channel apologized Tuesday for airing part of a film judged blasphemous by Muslims, after Islamists launched an attack on the network’s offices in protest.
“I apologize,” Nessma TV president Nebil...
OSLO - UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who himself studied by candlelight as a child, pleaded on Monday for universal access to clean energy, a privilege denied to more than half the world's population.
"We need an energy revolution," Ban said...
MONROVIA - Liberia's election campaign wraps up on Sunday after being rattled by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's Nobel Peace Prize win, seen as an unfair coup for the incumbent ahead of the nation's second post-war polls.
Political parties took...
CAIRO - Egyptian cyber dissidents who were touted as Nobel Peace Prize candidates congratulated the Yemeni activist on Friday who shared the honor with two Liberians for her "well deserved win."
"Congratulations to Tawakkul Karman for...
OSLO - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian "peace warrior" Leymah Gbowee and Yemen's Arab Spring activist Tawakkul Karman on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize, the jury said.
The three prizewinners share the 2011 award...
PARIS - Palestine has won a first diplomatic victory in its quest for statehood as UNESCO's executive committee backed its bid to become a member, a move deemed "inexplicable" by the United States.
Palestine's Arab allies braved...
