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The International Monetary Fund and Egypt hope to conclude talks for a loan deal “in the coming weeks,” they said in a joint statement Sunday.
The statement came after IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde met an Egyptian delegation in...
Colorado Party millionaire and political neophyte Horacio Cartes won Paraguay’s presidential race, officials said, paving the way for his nation to rejoin the Mercosur trade bloc.
Cartes, a conservative tobacco baron, took 46 percent of the...
Syria's National Coalition head Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib has refiled his resignation and an interim leader is being sought, a fellow member and a source close to the main opposition group said Sunday.
Khatib insists on resigning, almost a month...
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday he had asked Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to delay a visit to the Gaza Strip planned for next month, as he pushes for improved Israeli-Turkish ties.
"We have expressed to the prime...
The International Monetary Fund will remain engaged in loan negotiations with Egypt but wants the international community to provide financing too, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said Saturday.
"It's a task and we will not give up, we will...
President Mohamed Morsy is set to announce a Cabinet reshuffle, a presidential aide said Saturday, but it is unlikely to meet opposition demands for a complete overhaul of the government.
Morsy wrote on his Twitter account that he would make...
President Bashar al-Assad warned Western states on Wednesday that they will pay a heavy price at home for their alleged support of Islamists in the Syrian conflict and said defeat of his regime was not an option.
Assad, whose regime has been...
US Secretary of State John Kerry again warned Wednesday that time was slipping away to reach a Middle East peace deal, but for the first time said there may only be a year or two left.
Appearing before US lawmakers for the first time since becoming...
A huge earthquake that struck Iran's rural southeast region killed one woman and injured more than two dozen other people, media reports Wednesday cited officials as saying.
"A woman was killed by a mountain landslide following the quake,...
Tunisia's deposed President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was given a five-year jail term in absentia and fined 3.5 million euros for corruption, adding to the two life sentences he has already received, judicial sources said on Tuesday.
The former...
