KANO: Soldiers and police Sunday manned checkpoints in Nigeria’s second largest city after coordinated bombings and gun battles killed 162 people in one of the deadliest attacks to hit the mainly Muslim north. A round-the-clock curfew imposed shortly aft
TEHRAN: Seventeen people have died after a storm capsized a passenger boat off of Iran's southern coast, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday. The boat sank Saturday evening…
Nigerian security probe attacks that killed 162
KANO: Soldiers and police Sunday manned checkpoints in Nigeria's second largest city after coordinated bombings and gun battles killed 162 people in one of the deadliest attacks to hit the…
Rights group says Iraq becoming ‘police state’
BAGHDAD: Iraq's Shia-led government cracked down harshly on dissent during the past year of Arab Spring uprisings, turning the country into a "budding police state" as autocratic regimes crumbled elsewhere…
Syria opposition to head to UN seeking intervention
CAIRO: The opposition Syrian National Council plans to send a delegation to the United Nations to press the Security Council for intervention in unrest-swept Syria, an SNC spokesman told AFP…
Thousands protest against Yemen president immunity
SANAA: Tens of thousands of Yemenis demanded President Ali Abdullah Saleh's execution in protests Sunday against his immunity from prosecution over a deadly crackdown on dissent. "It is our duty...…
Egypt police kill migrants trying to sneak into Israel
CAIRO: Egyptian border police shot dead two African migrants and wounded a third as they tried to cross illegally into Israel early Saturday, security officials said. Border police spotted the…
Obama, Clinton speak to Egypt officials about economy, transition
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday called Egypt's foreign minister to discuss the country's economic and political situation, as well as events in Syria, the State Department…
Islamists see more parliamentary gains after party list results
CAIRO: It was a sweeping victory for Islamist parties in Egypt’s parliamentary elections, with the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) winning 127 seats (38 percent) and the Salafi…
Mubarak still president, not involved in gas deal: lawyer
CAIRO: Hosni Mubarak is still president of Egypt as he never signed a resignation letter, his lawyer asserted in court Sunday as he began wrapping up the defense case in…
Thousands march to Tahrir Square on Friday of the ‘Martyr’s Dream’
CAIRO: Thousands marched to Tahrir Square on Friday dubbed the “Martyr’s Dream" demanding justice for the hundreds killed during a popular revolt that ousted the regime last January. "We want…