Libyan rebels are facing a new battle by struggling to provide Tripoli’s residents with water, electricity, petrol and food.
Libyan rebels have launched a massive offensive on Muammar Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, as the strongman’s son refuted reports of his own arrest.
With his flipped-round baseball cap and "Just Do It" T-shirt, Tareg Gazel looks like any other 19-year-old. But his job is to kill Gaddafi snipers.
Egyptian protesters massed on Friday for sweeping "departure day" demonstrations to force President Hosni Mubarak to quit.
Africa’s mediator in Côte d’Ivoire’s leadership crisis flew to Abidjan on Monday, armed with a new offer to get Laurent Gbagbo to step down.
Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo’s stand-off with the world intensified on Friday after Britain and Canada rejected his expulsion of their envoys.
Gbagbo’s government said it was expelling the British and Canadian envoys from Côte d’Ivoire, as the countries no longer accepted his ambassadors.
Laurent Gbagbo’s government said it was expelling the British and Canadian envoys from Côte d’Ivoire, as countries stopped accepting his ambassadors.
African mediators flew in to Côte d’Ivoire on Monday in their bid to get President Laurent Gbagbo to stand down following disputed polls.
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/ 19 October 2010
French workers and students took to the streets once again on Tuesday to defend their right to retire at 60.
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/ 31 January 2008
Damage to undersea internet cables hit businesses across the Middle East and South Asia on Thursday, including the vital call-centre industry, prompting calls for people to limit their surfing. About 70% of internet users in Egypt have been affected since two submarine cables in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged on Wednesday.
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/ 3 December 2007
A British woman jailed in Sudan for insulting religion by naming a teddy bear after the Prophet Muhammad was to be released on Monday after being granted a presidential pardon. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir signed the pardon after meeting two British Muslim peers who flew to Khartoum on a mercy mission.
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/ 1 December 2007
Two Muslim members of Britain’s House of Lords were in Khartoum on Saturday to seek the release of a British woman teacher jailed for insulting Islam after she named a teddy bear Muhammad. Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi, from the upper house of Britain’s Parliament, were to meet with Sudanese officials in a bid to free Gillian Gibbons (54).
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/ 26 November 2007
A rising tide of travellers seeking out the new frontier of Egyptian tourism is threatening priceless rock art preserved for millennia in one of the most-isolated reaches of the Sahara. In Egypt’s south-west corner, straddling the borders of Sudan and Libya, the elegant paintings of prehistoric man and beast in the mountains of Gilf Kabir and Jebel Ouenat are as stunning in their simplicity as anything by Picasso.
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/ 25 January 2006
Armed police patrolled rooftops of polling centres on Wednesday as activists waving the green flags of Islamist party Hamas and the yellow banners of rival Fatah mingled with Palestinian voters in the impoverished Gaza Strip. "We want things to improve," said the elderly Abu Mohammed, leaning on a wooden cane. "I support Hamas. Why would I vote for Fatah?"