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Angry Egyptian villagers beat a man to death and dragged his body through the streets on Sunday after he allegedly raped and murdered a teenage girl, a security official said.
The killing in the Nile Delta village of Quesna in Monufiya...
Sudan's opposition alliance announced on Saturday a 100-day plan for the peaceful overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir, who has been in power for more than two decades.
"I expect the regime will fall before the 100 days finish," said...
Egypt's President Mohamed Morsy rejected as "absurd" opposition calls for an early election less than a year into his term of office, charging in comments published Friday that such calls violated the constitution.
"We are a...
Egypt's Al-Azhar institute said on Thursday that legal measures were underway to recover a Quranic manuscript taken from Cairo in the 18th century during Napoleon's invasion.
French auction house Osenat withdrew the manuscript after the...
The European Court of Human Rights Thursday asked France not to deport a Coptic Christian who fled Egypt, saying he still risked religious persecution back home.
Born in 1973 and from Upper Egypt's Assiut governorate -- which has a huge Coptic...
The International Monetary Fund admitted Wednesday that there were '"notable failures" in preparing the first Greek rescue that led to its failure and forced a second, larger bailout.
The IMF admitted going ahead with poor estimates...
JAKARTA- Contestants at this year's Miss World beauty pageant will not wear bikinis in the parade in a bid to avoid causing offence in Muslim-majority Indonesia, organisers confirmed Wednesday.
The 137 women taking part in the September contest...
RIYADH - Saudi authorities on Wednesday freed liberal writer Turki al-Hamad who has been held without trial since December over comments posted on Twitter deemed insulting to Islam, a rights activist said.
Hamad, a novelist and a political...
JERUSALEM- Israel's army was Wednesday giving a "live" blow-by-blow account of the 1967 Six Day War, tweeting each air strike at the exact time it occurred 46 years ago in an epic replay which began early in the morning.
@IDF1967...
JERUSALEM - Israel has struck a deal to deport up to 2,000 illegal Eritrean immigrants to an unnamed African country in return for supplying it with military aid, the Yediot Aharonot newspaper said on Wednesday.
The paper said that, under an...
