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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...
Sanaa -- Yemen's opposition on Friday dismissed President Ali Abdullah Saleh's stance on a revised Gulf plan to ease him out of power, as security forces gathered in anticipation of mass demonstrations for and against him.
The ruling party...
Amman -- Security forces have moved into central Syria and coastal areas before Friday prayers in a test of will for demonstrators determined to maintain protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
In a show of force, tanks have taken up...
A gunbattle between members of Egypt's military and an armed gang in the Sinai Peninsula left one soldier dead on Thursday, a source said.
An officer and another person were also wounded when the army moved on an unidentified gang near a police...
Algiers -- NATO air strikes destroyed at least two helicopters near the Libyan town of Zintan as government forces transported them on trucks, a rebel spokesman in Zintan told Reuters on Thursday.
"NATO destroyed two or three helicopters...
Cairo -- A summit of Arab leaders has been postponed by a year to March 2012 because of turmoil in the region, but will still be held in Iraq as originally planned, the Arab League said on Thursday.
Mass demonstrations demanding political reforms...
Rome -- Ministers from the NATO-backed coalition against Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi meet in Rome on Thursday seeking ways to get money to rebels who are desperate to buy food and medicine and shore up their administration.
As the conflict in...
