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Benghazi -- Rebels fighting to oust Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi said on Saturday they have reached an agreement with Italy to supply them with weapons, but the former colonial power denied the report.
Abdel-Hafiz Ghoga, spokesman for the rebel...
Tunis -- Tunisian police wielding batons and firing teargas scuffled on Saturday with hundreds of protesters demanding the departure of the government and angry at a heavy handed response to demonstrations this week.
The new protests in the North...
An escaped Egyptian prisoner was recaptured as he fled a police ambush disguised as a woman in the Suez canal city of Ismailia, security sources said on Saturday.
Adel Mohammed Dasouqi, 35, escaped from Cairo's Abu Zaabal prison earlier this...
A court has annulled a 2006 deal to sell Egypt's historic Omar Effendi department store chain to a Saudi investor, the state news agency MENA said on Saturday, after critics long argued it was sold too cheaply.
Omar Effendi, a well-known chain...
Sanaa -- Youth groups leading protests to oust Yemen's long-ruling President Ali Abdullah Saleh called on Gulf Arab states Saturday to withdraw a plan which has failed so far to ease him from power.
Yemen's main opposition said Friday the...
Climate change cut global wheat and corn output by more than 3 percent over the past three decades compared to growth projections without a rise in temperatures, a study found on Friday. The impacts translated into up to 20 percent higher average...
United Nations -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday that Israel should not withhold tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority following its unity deal with Hamas.
"The Secretary-General...
Amsterdam -- The prosecutor at the UN-backed Lebanon tribunal filed an amended indictment on Friday in the 2005 killing of former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri after new evidence emerged, which could further delay the process.
The Lebanon tribunal...
Cape Town--Robust economic growth in Africa over the last decade has swelled the size of its middle class to a third of the continent's billion-strong population, according to a report released on Friday.
The African Development Bank (AfDB)...
Tunis -- Tunisian police with teargas and batons broke up a protest to demand the resignation of the government on Friday in the most violent confrontation for weeks with pro-democracy demonstrators.
Tensions rose in the North African country on...
