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BEIJING –– US Secretary of State John Kerry met China's top leaders on Saturday in a bid to persuade them to exert pressure on North Korea to scale back its belligerent rhetoric and, eventually, return to nuclear talks....
Some 50,000 Sudanese have fled into southeastern Chad in the past week following fresh tribal conflict in the restive Darfur region, UN and Chadian officials said on Friday.
Melissa Fleming, a spokeswoman for the UN High Commission for Refugees,...
President Mohamed Morsy will visit Russia next week, state-run newspaper Al-Gomhurriya reported on Friday, in a visit market sources expect to focus on Egypt’s energy, wheat import and financing needs.
Morsy will meet Russian President...
Secretary of State John Kerry warned North Korea on Friday it would be a "huge mistake" to launch a medium-range missile and said the United States would never accept the reclusive country as a nuclear power.
Addressing reporters after...
The nation's economic crisis poses a threat to basic nutrition for its population of 84 million people, as the poorest spend more than half their income on food, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday.
WFP country director Gian Pietro...
The Cabinet has made progress in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a US$4.8 billion loan and will continue negotiations next week, Finance Minister Morsy Hegazy said on Thursday.
"Talks are continuing with the delegation....
At least 45 Syrians were killed, some in cold blood, when government troops stormed the contested town of Sanamein in the southern province of Deraa, opposition activists and a monitoring group said on Thursday.
The British-based Syrian Observatory...
Tunisia received US$28.8 million on Thursday in the first such retrieval of what it calls looted assets held abroad by ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family.
The state news agency TAP said a cheque in that amount had been handed to...
The stock exchange hit a two-week high on Thursday after Qatar and Libya pledged US$5 billion in funding to a cash-strapped Egypt, while most Gulf markets also gain in earnings anticipation.
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani...
Al-Azhar on Thursday approved a law that would allow the country, which is struggling with a soaring budget deficit, to issue sukuk (Islamic bonds), but said some articles passed by the Shura Council must be amended.
The Freedom and Justice Party-...
