
Disputes brewing over Hugo Chavez's inauguration
President Hugo Chavez is due to be sworn in for a new term in less than a week and his closest allies still aren't saying what they plan to do if the ...

Venezuela opposition: Chavez secrecy feeds rumors
Venezuela's opposition demanded that the government reveal specifics of President Hugo Chavez's condition Wednesday, criticizing secrecy surrounding ...

North African nations take different reform routes
Two years after an itinerant Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire to protest government injustice and ignited uprisings across the Middle East, ...

Egypt's president warns against dangers to economy
Egypt's Islamist president used his first address before the newly convened upper house of parliament on Saturday to warn against any unrest that ...

Venezuela VP in Cuba to visit ailing Chavez
Venezuela's vice president arrived in Havana on Saturday in a sudden and unexpected trip to visit President Hugo Chavez as he recovers from cancer ...

Egypt's opposition leaders under investigation
Egypt's chief prosecutor ordered an investigation on Thursday into allegations that opposition leaders committed treason by inciting supporters to ...

Egypt's Morsi: constitution dawn of new republic
Egypt's Islamist president proclaimed the country's newly adopted constitution as the dawning of a "new republic" in a television address Wednesday, ...

In Egypt Islamists' bastion, discontent creeps up
When election-time rolls around, this impoverished province of farmlands south of Cairo has proven one of the most die-hard bastions of support for ...

AP Interview: Egypt liberal objects to charter
One of Egypt's leading opposition figures on Monday pledged continued resistance to his country's Islamist-oriented constitution even if it is ...

Egypt ex-jihadi group: opposition used violence
The leader of a former jihadist group who is now a member of Egyptian parliament accused the largely secular opposition on Monday of using violence ...

Taliban not demanding Afghan power monopoly
Taliban representatives at a conference did not insist on total power in Afghanistan and pledged to grant rights to women that the militant Islamist ...

Egypt opposition alleges vote fraud in referendum
Egypt's opposition said Sunday it will keep fighting the Islamist-backed constitution after the Muslim Brotherhood, the main group backing the ...

Egypt's draft charter gets 'yes' majority in vote
Egypt's Islamist-backed constitution received a "yes" majority in a final round of voting on a referendum that saw a low voter turnout, but the deep ...

AP PHOTOS: Images from Egypt's constitution vote
Egyptians returned to the polls to vote on a referendum on an Islamist-backed constitution. Preliminary results released by the Muslim Brotherhood ...

Highlights from Egypt's draft constitution
Egypt's draft constitution, which is being voted on in a referendum Saturday, is made up of an introduction, an 11-part preamble and 236 articles.

Key events in Egypt's revolution and transition
Egyptians are voting Saturday in the second round of a referendum on disputed draft constitution that has polarized the country and plunged it into ...

Egyptian Islamists, opponents clash ahead of vote
Violence erupted between Egypt's divided camps on Friday, the eve of the final round of a referendum on a constitution that has polarized the nation, ...
Basic facts on Egypt's constitution referendum
Egyptians vote Saturday in the second round of a highly contentious referendum on a new constitution to replace the one suspended after the 2011 ...

New tensions in Egypt over top prosecutor
Egypt's top prosecutor retracted his resignation on Thursday, a decision that could cause a new uproar in the country after he was accused of ...

Fear keeps Egypt's Christians away from polls
A campaign of intimidation by Islamists left most Christians in this southern Egyptian province too afraid to participate in last week's referendum ...
AP Interview: Egypt atheist blasts Islamist regime
An Egyptian atheist convicted then released from prison on bail this week told The Associated Press Wednesday that the new Islamist government is no ...

Chavez has respiratory infection, now 'controlled'
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a respiratory infection after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba and must have "complete rest" for the next few ...

Egypt's Alexandria gripped by feud over future
The Qaed Ibrahim mosque, revered by Alexandrines as the embodiment of their Mediterranean city's cosmopolitan heritage, has become a battleground ...