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TUNIS — The main winners of Tunisia's elections announced late Monday the shape of the country's interim government ahead of the first meeting of its newly-elected assembly.
Tunisians on 25 October elected a body to write a new...
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's prime minister on Tuesday said for the first time that Syria's president must step down over the country's brutal crackdown on dissent, ratcheting up the pressure on the increasingly isolated Bashar al-...
The White House says the eruption of violence in Egypt should not stand in the way of elections and the rapid transition to democracy.
Spokesman Jay Carney says the US is deeply concerned about the violence and is calling for restraint on all sides...
Airport officials say that Israel's ambassador to Egypt has returned to Cairo after he and other embassy staffers fled on military planes when thousands of angry Egyptians attacked the Israeli Embassy in September.
An official who spoke on...
BEIRUT — Residents in the Syrian capital woke up to two loud explosions Sunday amid activist reports that a major building belonging to the ruling Baath Party in the capital Damascus had been by hit several rocket-propelled grenades....
Egyptian police are clashing for a second day in central Cairo with protesters demanding that the military quickly announce a date to hand power to an elected government.
The police on Sunday were using tear gas against several thousand protesters...
Thousands of Egyptians are rallying in Cairo's Tahrir Square, with Islamists in the forefront, in a protest against what they say are attempts by the country's military rulers to reinforce their powers.
The rally Friday was dominated by the...
NAIROBI, Kenya — The presidents of Sudan and the new nation of South Sudan are both predicting the possibility of a new war in an oil-rich region that has seen a spike in cross-border attacks.
Troop build-ups are being reported on both sides...
SANAA, Yemen — They marched out of their tent camp in the heart of Yemen's capital, holding hands and dancing to patriotic songs blaring from loudspeakers. Several walked with canes, others carried plastic flowers. Some knelt down to offer...
BEIRUT — A senior Lebanese security official says a bomb has exploded at a hotel frequented by United Nations staffers in the country's south, causing damage but not casualties.
The official says the blast went off in the pub of the Queen...
