Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city
Esam Mohamed, Associated Press |
posted 15 minutes ago
Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported.
Syria's Assad says he won't step down
Karin Laub, Associated Press |
posted 29 minutes ago
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections are held, rejecting a demand by the country's opposition that any talks on ending the nation's civil war lead to his ouster.
AP PHOTOS: Palestinians in Egypt exiled, forgotten
Aya Batrawy, Associated Press |
posted 58 minutes ago
In 1948, Suleiman Mamoudi fled by foot with his parents and other families from their village of Bir el-Sabae in Palestine. The 28-year-old and his family walked west for several hundred miles, crossing the Sinai Peninsula before settling in an area around 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Cairo.
Attacks kill 16 in Iraq, 8 police kidnapped
Sameer N. Yacoub, Associated Press |
posted May 18th - 11:19am
A string of attacks killed at least 16 people in Iraq on Saturday, while gunmen abducted eight policemen guarding a post on the country's main highway to Jordan and Syria, the latest in a wave of violence to grip the country.
Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges
Maggie Michael, Associated Press |
posted May 18th - 7:34am
The pale, young Christian woman sat handcuffed in the courtroom, accused of insulting Islam while teaching history of religions to fourth-graders. A team of Islamist lawyers with long beards sang in unison, "All except the Prophet Muhammad."
Egypt Muslim-Christian clashes leave 1 dead
Mariam Rizk, Associated Press |
posted May 18th - 7:12am
Egyptian security officials say clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria left one man dead of a heart attack.
Egypt security forces clash with Cairo protesters
Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 2:45pm
Egyptian security forces have fired tear gas at protesters hurling firebombs at them in central Cairo, hours after hundreds of opponents of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi rallied peacefully in the streets denouncing his rule and demanding early presidential elections.
Tunisia bans conservative Islamist conference
Bouazza Ben Bouazza, Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 1:51pm
Tunisia's Interior Ministry on Friday banned a conference by the North African country's most prominent ultraconservative Islamic group, setting up the possibility of a confrontation over the weekend.
Egypt police close Gaza border to protest kidnap
Maggie Michael, Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 1:30pm
Dozens of disgruntled border policemen forced the closure of Egypt's main crossing point into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the abduction of their colleagues by suspected militants, underscoring the lawlessness and crisis of authority in the country two years since the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
A look at `enforced disappearances' worldwide
The Associated Press |
posted May 17th - 9:45am
The U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is pressing governments to provide information about open cases. Over the past two decades, it received nearly 54,000 cases, of which nearly 43,000 in 84 states remain unsolved. The number of cases is believed to be only a fraction of those who disappeared after being taken by security forces.
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May 26th, 2011 @ 1:55pm
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