Parties call for replacing interior minister in new cabinet

Political parties highlight the importance of restructuring the Ministry of Interior

Rana Muhammad Taha

Tunisia gets $1.2bn from World Bank

It is the biggest loan package Tunisia has received since the 2011 revolution that toppled autocratic president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.

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Victims of forcible evictions subject to repeated violence: Amnesty International

Rights group details use of excessive force by security officials

Aaron T. Rose

Turkish lira firms on hopes US tapering continues only steadily

The Istanbul share index rose 1.25% to 62,553.32 points, outperforming the wider emerging markets index, which was up 0.39%.

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Pro-Russian forces tighten grip on Crimea

The new government was dealt a new jolt when Russia’s energy giant Gazprom bluntly warned Kiev that it had accumulated a “huge” debt for unpaid natural gas that needed to…

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One dead, 19 injured in Friday clashes

At least 10 were arrested in Alexandria for involvement in clashes between demonstrators and security forces

Joel Gulhane

Egypt gunmen kill police guard of Morsi judge

AFP — Gunmen Friday killed an Egyptian policeman who was on a security team guarding the home of a judge in the jailbreak trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, security…

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Gunmen kill Egypt policeman north of Cairo

Sergeant Abdallah Metwally of Mansoura police station was shot dead by assailants

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Ukraine accuses Russia of ‘armed invasion’ in Crimea

Ukraine's parliament on Friday appealed to the United States and Britain to uphold a 1994 pact signed with Russia that guaranteed the country's sovereignty in return for it giving up…

Joel Gulhane

Ugandan government shrugs off aid cuts over anti-gay law

Leading Ugandan gay rights activist Frank Mugisha met in Washington Thursday with top State Department officials to call for help in protecting gays.

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