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Egypt's state budget deficit, bloated after political turmoil rocked the economy, is forecast to widen to 9.38 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the 2011/12 fiscal year, the finance minister said.
That compares with an expected deficit...
Kabul -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban on Monday to cease fighting after the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and added they should learn a lesson from his death.
"The Taliban must learn a lesson from this. The...
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan on Sunday, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the September 11 attacks.
"Justice has been done," President Barack Obama...
Amman -- Syrian authorities are carrying out a wave of arrests in the city of Deraa in their latest move to crush protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad, residents said on Sunday.
The residents said they had seen packed busloads of...
Amman -- Women and children in the besieged Syrian city of Deraa chanted "God is greatest against the tyrant" from rooftops in the night after troops backed by tanks intensified a crackdown on the city, a resident said.
Troops stormed into...
Benghazi -- A NATO air strike destroyed 45 vehicles of Muammar Qadhafi's forces after they had killed at least five civilians in fighting in two east Libyan towns, an oil official and a rebel spokesman said on Sunday.
Qadhafi forces entered the...
Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi survived a NATO air strike on a Tripoli house that killed his youngest son and three grandchildren, a government spokesman said on Sunday.
Libyan officials took journalists to the house, which had been hit by at least...
Mosul -- Eight people were killed and 19 wounded on Saturday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at an Iraqi army checkpoint next to a market in the northern city of Mosul, police and hospital sources said.
Attacks against Iraq's army and...
Sanaa -- Yemen's president was to sign an agreement on Saturday to quit power in a month's time in exchange for immunity in a deal that, if implemented, would make him the third Arab ruler ousted by a wave of popular uprisings.
Ali Abdullah...
Benghazi -- Libyan rebels on Saturday rejected Muammar Qadhafi's offer for a ceasefire and negotiations if NATO stopped its attacks, saying the time for compromise had passed.
"Qadhafi's regime has lost all credibility," Abdel...
