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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...
Clashes broke out for the second day on Tuesday between police and angry supporters of a top Tunisian football club in the town of Bizertin after it was controversially eliminated from the league.
Police used tear gas to disperse students...
A Kuwaiti court on Monday sentenced main opposition leader and former MP Mussallam al-Barrak to five years in prison after he was convicted of insulting the emir, an AFP correspondent said.
"The court has sentenced the defendant Mussallam al-...
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has resigned, ending months of rising tension with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, despite US efforts to keep him in place.
The resignation of the US-educated economist, who won broad international...
The Gulf Cooperation Council called Sunday for international inspectors to be sent to Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant over concerns of possible radiation leaks after an earthquake hit the area.
The body demanded the International Atomic...
