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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...
Paris -- An explosion that killed 15 people in Marrakesh was triggered by a remote control device, not a suicide bomber as previous reports suggested, France's interior minister said in an interview published on Saturday.
The blast on Thursday...
Sanaa -- Vast crowds of Yemenis took to the streets on Friday to demand the immediate departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, instead of the phased handover of power envisaged by a Gulf-mediated agreement.
Some 100,000 people flooded a five-km...
The Palestinian reconciliation accord brokered by Egypt means as much to Cairo as the rival factions it united, because it signals a clear shift in Middle East policy from the era of deposed President Hosni Mubarak.
By pushing Fatah and its Islamist...
Manama -- Thousands of Bahraini Shias gathered before a revered cleric on Friday denounced death sentences given to protesters over anti-government rallies crushed last month in the US-allied Gulf kingdom.
The verdict, handed down by a military...
Sanaa -- Yemen's opposition warned the government on Thursday that violence against street protesters demanding the removal of President Ali Abdullah Saleh could derail a deal aimed at ending the political standoff.
Plainclothes gunmen killed 12...
Egypt's central bank kept its key overnight interest rates steady on Thursday in a bid to foster economic growth without reigniting the high inflation that sparked unprecedented protests against the government.
Egypt's economy nearly ground...
