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Tripoli buckling under humanitarian situation
Libyan rebels are facing a new battle by struggling to provide Tripoli’s residents with water, electricity, petrol and food.
Libya rebels launch massive attack on Gaddafi lair
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.
The Irish teen who tracks and kills Gaddafi’s snipers
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.
Huge crowds maintain pressure on Mubarak
Egyptian protesters massed on Friday for sweeping "departure day" demonstrations to force President Hosni Mubarak to quit.
Fresh bid to break Côte d’Ivoire deadlock
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.
Côte d’Ivoire’s Gbagbo intensifies stand-off
Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo’s stand-off with the world intensified on Friday after Britain and Canada rejected his expulsion of their envoys.
Gbagbo expels UK, Canada 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.
Côte d’Ivoire’s Gbagbo orders UK, Cananda envoys out
Laurent Gbagbo’s government said it was expelling the British and Canadian envoys from Côte d’Ivoire, as countries stopped accepting his ambassadors.
African leaders bid to end Côte d’Ivoire crisis
African mediators flew in to Côte d’Ivoire on Monday in their bid to get President Laurent Gbagbo to stand down following disputed polls.
Street clashes as French battle Sarkozy reform
French workers and students took to the streets once again on Tuesday to defend their right to retire at 60.
Internet failure hits business from Cairo to Colombo
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…
Sudan pardons UK teacher over teddy-bear insult
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.…
British peers in Sudan to seek teddy teacher’s release
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…
Desert art in danger at Egypt’s new tourism frontier
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…
Gazans vote for change
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…