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Benghazi -- Libya's rebel leadership expects foreign powers to lend it US$2 billion to US$3 billion secured against frozen Libyan state assets held abroad, a rebel finance official said on Tuesday.
Libya's economy depends almost entirely on...
BRUSSELS, May 3 (Reuters) - The European Union should halt the rapid extinction of plant and animal species by 2020 because it will cost less than trying to repair the damage once it is done, Europe's environment chief said on Tuesday.
Worldwide...
Dubai--Dana Gas, the Gulf's only listed natural gas company, said on Tuesday it has made a new gas discovery in Egypt, the company's fifth gas find in the country.
"A preliminary estimate of the discovered reserves in the new pool (El...
Tripoli -- Forces loyal to Muammar Qadhafi stepped up their onslaught on rebel areas of Libya's Western Mountains late on Monday, rebels said, and refugees said towns in the isolated region were on the brink of starvation.
At least 10 Grad...
Washington -- The killing of Osama bin Laden by US forces was not a joint operation with Pakistan, the president of Pakistan said in an opinion column published on Monday.
President Asif Ali Zardari, writing in the Washington Post, also dismissed...
The head of Egypt's prestigious seat of Sunni Muslim learning, al-Azhar, condemned US troops' disposal of the body of Osama bin Laden at sea Monday as an affront to religious and human values.
Muslims set great store by interment in...
Amman -- Syrian security forces going house to house rounded up more people in a clampdown on pro-democracy unrest across the country on Monday, rights activists said, after taking control of Deraa, cradle of the uprising.
Human rights campaigners...
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...
