CAIRO, February 6, 2011 (AFP) – The Egyptian military on Sunday reinforced its presence around Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the epicentre of anti-regime protests, as a semblance of normal life ...
KUWAIT CITY, February 6, 2011 (AFP) – A Kuwaiti youth group called Sunday for a mass rally outside parliament on Tuesday to protest the government’s “undemocratic practices” a...
LAGOS, February 5, 2011 (AFP) – Nigeria wrapped up a huge effort to register voters in Africa’s most populous nation Saturday ahead of April elections after a process that was sometimes c...
BELGRADE, February 5, 2011 (AFP) – Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Belgrade on Saturday for a major opposition rally calling for the government to call early elections or...
BERLIN, February 5, 2011 (AFP) – Egypt’s influential Muslim Brotherhood is keeping a low profile in the current unrest because it does not want the revolt to be seen as an Islamic revolut...
MOSCOW, February 5, 2011 (AFP) – Russia’s leading Islamist rebel has vowed to make 2011 “a year of blood and tears” in a chilling video message released two weeks after a suic...
PARIS, February 5, 2011 (AFP) – France said on Saturday it had suspended sales of arms and riot police equipment to Egypt amid mass protests pressing for veteran leader Hosni Mubarak to step do...
WASHINGTON, February 4, 2011 (AFP) – The White House Friday slammed Iran for intervening in the Egypt crisis, saying Tehran was in no position to make such “remarkable” comments aft...
MUNICH, February 4, 2011 (AFP) – NATO’s chief chided European governments Friday over their shrinking military budgets, warning that it would leave Europe weaker in a fast-moving world ma...
WASHINGTON, February 1, 2011 (AFP) – US President Barack Obama has told his beleaguered Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak not to stand for re-election in upcoming September elections, the New ...
LONDON, February 1, 2011 (AFP) – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s announcement of a new cabinet is not enough to resolve the mass protests engulfing the country, British Foreign Secreta...
LAHORE, February 1, 2011 (AFP) – A Pakistani court on Tuesday blocked any move to free a US government employee under investigation for double murder as Washington stepped up calls for his rele...
AMMAN, February 1, 2011 (AFP) – King Abdullah II of Jordan sacked the government on Tuesday after weeks of protests, but his choice of replacement premier failed to satisfy the powerful Islamis...
WASHINGTON, February 1, 2011 (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will later this week travel to Germany to attend international security talks and exchange documents putting into forc...
RAMALLAH, February 1, 2011 (AFP) – Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat urged the Middle East Quartet on Tuesday to recognise a Palestinian state within 1967 borders when it meets later thi...
NICOSIA, February 1, 2011 (AFP) – A group of Syrian online activists are promoting a day of anger after prayers on Friday to call for a peaceful “2011 Syrian revolution” to end what...