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The running mate of Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga called for the vote count to be halted on Thursday and cast doubt on the fairness of a process that is still incomplete three days after the poll, remarks that could inflame a largely...
Syrian rebels seized a convoy of UN peacekeepers near the Golan Heights and say they will hold them captive until President Bashar al-Assad's forces pull back from a rebel-held village that has seen heavy recent fighting.
The capture was...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died on Tuesday after 14 years in power, during which he remodeled the OPEC country's oil sector and nationalized foreign-run oil fields.
Oil production fell sharply during his era, dropping from some 3.5...
Egyptian security forces battled stone-throwing youths in the Suez Canal city of Port Said on Tuesday while in Cairo even police staged a protest, reflecting a country beset by discontent over a host of grievances.
By far the most serious trouble...
The main index of the Egyptian stock market fell 2.49 percent Tuesday, the second consecutive day of heavy losses for Egyptian stocks in the midst of controversy over Orascom Construction Industries’ unpaid taxes.
Monday’s losses put the...
The trial of 94 people accused of plotting to seize power in the United Arab Emirates opened on Monday in the latest move by the Gulf Arab state to address what it says is a security threat from the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
More than 60 people...
At least 15 people were killed in attacks by machete-wielding gangs on Monday as millions of Kenyans voted in the first presidential election since a disputed 2007 poll unleashed weeks of tribal bloodshed.
Voting the tight contest passed off...
The main index of the Egyptian stock market fell by a whopping 2.30 percentage points on Monday, the biggest losses in a single day in over a month, after the prosecutor general issued a travel ban on the CEO of Orascom Construction Industries...
Orascom Constructions Industries said on Monday that the amount of taxes in dispute over the sale of Orascom Cement to the French company Lafarge, the largest cement producer in 2007, is LE4.7 billion (US$697.28 million.)
The company said in a...
Gunmen attacked an Egyptian Coptic church in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, assaulting two priests, the official LANA news agency quoted the foreign ministry as saying on Sunday.
The foreign ministry said it "strongly condemned Thursday...
