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The Muslim Brotherhood has rejected a plan announced by the military-backed interim leadership that sets a fast track for amending the constitution.
Egyptian forces have clashed with protesters in bloodshed that left 51 protesters and three members of the security forces dead, say officials.
Egypt’s new leadership has wrangled over the naming of a prime minister, as both the Muslim Brotherhood and their opponents call for new mass rallies.
A new law that excludes former officials of the Gaddafi era from public office is dividing Libya and deepening the turmoil plaguing the country.
Egypt’s president has called parliamentary elections for April in an effort to assuage mounting frustration over continued turmoil on the streets.
Egyptians voted for a second day in a presidential runoff pitting Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister against a conservative Islamist.
Egyptians have been hit by an increasingly acute petrol shortage, which the government has blamed on black market sales of fuel.
A year after Libya’s uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, its militias continue to hold influence with corruption, violence and anarchy.
Libya’s National Transitional Council has proposed a draft law for electing an assembly to draft the country’s new constitution.
Rights groups have denounced the startling show of force in the raids on 10 organisations and accused Egypt’s generals of trying to silence critics.
Rebel sympathisers, driven underground in Tripoli, have resorted to furtive protests such as writing "No" next to pro-government graffiti.
From the east and west, working with Nato air strikes, resurgent rebels have battled Libyan government forces at flashpoints along the Mediterranean.
Rebels battled their way back into a major oil port just 50km west of Tripoli on Saturday, forcing Muammar Gaddafi’s troops to close the highway.
It started with a Christian woman who wanted a divorce to marry her Muslim lover, and found no other way to do so but to convert to Islam.
Cairo was the scene of violent chaos on Friday, when tens of thousands of anti-government protesters stoned and confronted police.
An Egyptian military court notorious for its harsh verdicts convicted on Tuesday 25 key members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood and sentenced them to up to 10 years in jail,…
Thirty-five Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested on Saturday after police fired tear gas at hundreds of worshippers in a northern Nile Delta village shortly before prayers…
The footage is shocking: a man lies screaming on the floor of a police station as officers sodomise him with a wooden pole. Compounding the shock, it turns out that it was the…
A statement in the name of a group that claimed responsibility for the London bombings threatened to launch ”a bloody war” on the capitals of European countries that do not…
Leaders and officials from more than 50 African states convened a summit on Friday aimed to discuss security strategies for a trouble-plagued continent, with Libyan leader…
