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VIENNA — Shukri Ghanem, a former Libyan prime minister and oil minister who last year announced he was abandoning Muammar Qadhafi's regime to support the rebels who ultimately toppled him, was found dead Sunday in a section of the Danube...
MANAMA — The wife of a jailed, hunger striking Bahraini rights activist says in her first visit in two weeks, she found he has been treated with feeding tubes and other measures against his will.
Authorities have denied activist claims...
KANO, Nigeria — Several explosions struck a university campus Sunday morning in northern Nigeria near a theater hall where Catholics were holding a worship service, witnesses and officials said, as the sound of gunfire echoed through nearby...
BEIRUT — UN observers struggling to shore up a shaky cease-fire in Syria visited an embattled neighborhood in the central city of Homs Sunday, the Syrian state news agency said.
SANA said the observers toured the Khaldiyeh district, which has...
One supporter of ousted presidential hopeful Hazem Salah Abu Ismail reportedly died when unidentified men attacked a sit-in near the Defense Ministry in the Cairo neighborhood of Abbasseya, AP cited security sources as saying.
The Health Ministry,...
JERUSALEM — American aid officials said Saturday they will restore development programs for Palestinians after President Barack Obama ended a six-month funding freeze that shut down the local Sesame Street and other projects.
An official...
Reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei, seen as one of the forces that fueled the uprising that toppled long-standing leader Hosni Mubarak, launched a new political party Saturday that he said aims to unite Egyptians and save the country's revolution...
TRIPOLI, Libya — Members of Libya's interim ruling council are trying to work out the makeup of a new government after deciding to remove the country's Cabinet just five months after it took office, members said Friday.
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MANAMA — A jailed activist on a hunger strike since early February is in "good health" and receiving medical care, Bahraini officials said Wednesday, responding to opposition groups claiming his condition was sharply deteriorating....
TRIPOLI, Libya — A Libyan government spokesman says authorities have issued a law banning the formation of political parties based on religious principles.
Mohamed al-Hareizi, from the National Transitional Council, said the law passed...
