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Syrian villagers pulled 13 bodies from a mass grave near the southern city of Deraa on Monday, residents said, and thousands joined a night-time march in a Damascus suburb demanding the overthrow of the government.
Deraa residents say...
The wife of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak relinquished some of her assets to the state on Monday, days after anti-corruption authorities ordered her detention.
An anti-corruption agency ordered on Friday that the former first lady Suzanne...
Egyptian mobile operator Orascom Telecom's CEO will take over from Naguib Sawiris as executive chairman, the firm said on Monday, as the billionaire moves to get more involved in his country's changing politics.
Ahmed Abou Doma, the former...
Gunmen on motorcycles attacked a car belonging to the Saudi Arabian consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Monday killing a Saudi diplomat, police and the Saudi ambassador said.
The shooting occurred days after unidentified attackers threw...
Tripoli - NATO must broaden the range of targets it is bombing in Libya or risk failing to remove Muammar Qadhafi from power, Britain's most senior military officer was quoted as saying.
NATO warplanes, acting under a UN mandate to protect...
When mass protests drove Egypt's Hosni Mubarak out of office in February and political turmoil sent the economy into a tailspin, Sweden's Electrolux put its deal to buy an Egyptian appliance maker on hold.
The company was not alone in...
Violence erupted on Israel's borders with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza on Sunday, leaving at least eight dead and dozens wounded, as Palestinians marked what they term "the catastrophe" of Israel's founding in 1948.
Israeli troops shot...
IMF chief and possible French presidential contender Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested and charged on Sunday with sexual assault, including an attempted rape, on a hotel maid in New York City.
Strauss-Kahn, 62, a key player in the response to the...
North Korea and Iran appear to have been regularly exchanging ballistic missile technology in violation of UN sanctions, according to a confidential UN report obtained by Reuters on Saturday.
The report said the illicit technology transfers had...
Two Egyptian protesters were shot in Cairo during Christian and Muslim demonstrations and an explosion occurred near the tomb of a prominent Muslim sheikh in the Sinai Peninsula, state news agency MENA said.
A car driving on a bridge over the area...
