Sudan split ‘virtually certain’, says observer mission
KHARTOUM: The largest foreign poll observer mission said on Monday that the secession of south Sudan was "virtually certain" as polling stations wrapped up their counts in a landmark independence…
Talks to find new Lebanon PM postponed
BEIRUT: Talks on naming a new premier in crisis-hit Lebanon were postponed on Monday, as the prosecutor of a UN court probing the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri was set…
Israel’s defense minister quits Labor Party
JERUSALEM: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak abruptly announced Monday that he was leaving his Labor Party and forming a new parliamentary faction inside the governing coalition, completing a split in…
Ben Ali’s hated in-laws looted Tunisia’s wealth, say experts
By Deborah Pasmantier/ AFP PARIS: Long feared, now despised, the wealthy clan surrounding ousted strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's wife Leila Trabelsi corruptly gorged itself on Tunisia's riches, experts…
Sudan’s Turabi says Tunisia-style unrest ‘likely’
By Simon Martelli/ AFP KHARTOUM: Sudanese Islamist opposition leader Hassan Al-Turabi said Monday that a Tunisia-style uprising is "likely" in the north amid mounting economic woes and fears over the…
Egypt says fear of Tunisia-style revolt ‘nonsense’
By AFP SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Sunday downplayed fear that a Tunisian-style popular revolt could spread to other Arab countries, calling it “nonsense.” “The talk…
Questions over Africa’s appetite for arms in I. Coast
UNITED NATIONS: Doubts are being expressed about the threat by West African nations to send in a military force to dislodge Laurent Gbagbo from the Ivory Coast presidential palace, diplomats…
Tunisian foreign minister to brief Arab leaders
By AP CAIRO: Tunisia's foreign minister will brief Arab leaders meeting in Egypt this week on the upheaval surrounding the Tunisian president's ouster. Kamal Merjan will attend the Arab Economic…
Egyptian border police shoot dead Eritrean migrant
EL-ARISH: Egyptian security officials say border police have killed an Eritrean woman trying to sneak across the border into Israel. Officials say the 20-year-old woman did not heed warnings from…
Ismailia man sets himself ablaze in central Cairo
By Hamza Hendawi /AP CAIRO: An Egyptian man set himself on fire Monday outside the country's parliament building in central Cairo in an apparent protest, security officials said. The incident…