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Man wearing a t-shirt with a picture of newly elected Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on it, waves a Somali flag as he celebrates in southern Mogadishu AFP PHOTO / ABDURASHID ABDULLE ABIKAR
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Somalia selects new president

Hassan Sheikh Mohamed faces massive obstacles as Somalia’s new president

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
Ahmed Shafiq, Egypt's former prime minister and presidential hopeful AFP PHOTO / MARWAN NAAMANI
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Ex-presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq, a fugitive

Mubarak’s last prime minister charged alongside Mubarak’s two sons, Gamal and Alaa…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
Picture taken on 10 September shows Swedish journalists Johan Persson (left) and Martin Schibbye by the Kality prison in Addis Ababa after they were pardoned by the Ethiopian government. AFP PHOTO / SCANPIX / JOHAN PERSSON
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The body of Libyan opposition figure resurfaces after 20 years

Al-Senussi confesses killing opposition figure, Al-Kikhia, and burying him in the backyard…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
US flag stands at memorial of the north tower during observances on the eleventh anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York AFP PHOTO/CHRIS PEDOTA / POOL
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US Presidential candidates lay politics aside to remember 9/11

Presidential campaigns taking a break on the memorial of 9/11

Basil El-Dabh
Basil El-Dabh
People walk past a row of destroyed buildings near the Al-Hayat Hospital in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on September 10. Syrian troops on Tuesday pounded Aleppo to thwart a rebel advance in Syria's second city, activists said, as Hollywood star Angelina Jolie visited a Jordanian camp for refugees from the conflict. AFP Photo
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Aleppo pounded as Jolie visits Syria refugees

Bloodshed continues in Syria, as Lakhdar Brahimi hold Syrian-crisis talks in Cairo

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt
Egyptian tanks are seen being carried on the back of trucks on the Egyptian side of the border city of Rafah on 29 August AFP PHOTO / Stringer

Gunmen wound four police in Egypt’s Sinai: officials

Gunmen ambushed and opened fire on a police patrol carrying the deputy…

Daily News Egypt
Daily News Egypt

Essam Atta case reopened

Case of military detainee allegedly tortured to death reopened due to new…

Rana Muhammad Taha
Rana Muhammad Taha
British police officers arrive at a residential address believed to be the British home of the Hilli family shot dead in their car in the French Alps in Claygate, in south-east England AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS
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Survivor of Chevalline shootings awakens from coma

Daughter of slain parents awakes from coma as police investigate killings

Luiz Sanchez
Luiz Sanchez

OCI Fertilisers demerger to come

Orascom for Construction Industries (OCI) announced yesterday that the General Authority of…

Islam Serour
Islam Serour
Screenshot of a video posted on the Internet by Al-Malahem Media Foundation, the media arm of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, on 6 October, shows second in command Saeed al-Shehri AFP PHOTO / HO / AL-MALAHEM MEDIA FOUNDATION
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High ranking Al-Qaeda leader killed in Yemen

Yemeni military declare the death of Sa'id Ali Al-Shihri

Ahmed Aboulenein
Ahmed Aboulenein