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Egypt and Tunisia's leaders meet post-revolt
The presidents of Egypt and Tunisia pledged Friday to open a new chapter in relations following uprisings that overthrew longtime rulers, replacing ...
Saudi's Olympic opening to women 'small step'
Across the world, word that Saudi Arabia would send women athletes to the Olympics for the first time immediately rocketed to the top of websites and ...
Outgoing leader says Islamists won't rule Libya
Liberal parties held a lead Wednesday in partial results from Libya's first parliamentary election, on the same day that the head of the interim ...
Egypt's Morsi leaves for Saudi on 1st foreign trip
Egypt's Islamist president flew to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday at the start of his first foreign trip, underscoring the traditionally close ties between ...
Bashir says no Arab Spring in Sudan
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir on Wednesday dismissed opposition calls for an Arab Spring-style uprising in the African country, threatening that ...
Egypt's president flexes power, but cautiously
The faceoff between Egypt's new Islamist president and the old guard military sharpened Tuesday, with parliament defying orders to disband and the ...
Clinton: Egypt's leaders must settle differences
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday urged Egypt's Islamist president and its military to settle their differences for the good ...
New crisis looms in Egypt over legislature's fate
A new showdown loomed in Egypt on Monday as the country's highest court stood by its ruling that dissolved parliament last month, challenging the new ...
What to know about Egypt's new political drama
Egypt's newly elected President Mohammed Morsi is locked in conflict with the powerful military over whether the country's legislature should ...
Ousted Egypt leader's sons on trial for trading
The ousted Egyptian president's two sons have pleaded not guilty to charges of insider trading at the beginning of their trial in Cairo. The two — ...
Libyan election hints at blow to Islamists
Libya's first nationwide elections in nearly five decades brought hints Sunday of an Arab Spring precedent: Western-leaning parties making strides ...
Egypt's president reconvenes dissolved parliament
Egypt's Islamist president fired the first volley Sunday in his battle with the nation's powerful generals, calling on the Islamist-dominated ...
Egypt: President orders dissolved parliament back
Egypt's Islamist president fired the first volley in his war with the powerful generals on Sunday, calling on the Islamist-dominated parliament to ...
Syria's Assad rejects comparison with Egypt, Libya
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview broadcast Sunday that he is not afraid of meeting the same fate as the deposed and disgraced ...
US assures Egypt Islamist leader of partnership
A senior U.S. official says President Barack Obama has assured Egypt's Islamist president of America's commitment to a "new partnership" with the Arab ...
Libyans hold 1st nationwide vote in decades
Jubilant Libyans chose a new parliament Saturday in their first nationwide vote in decades, but violence and protests in the restive east underscored ...
Egypt president to visit Saudi on 1st foreign trip
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will travel to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday on his first official trip abroad since being sworn in, a move suggesting ...
Egypt's president orders probe of protester deaths
Egypt's new president appointed a fact-finding committee to investigate the killing of protesters since the outbreak of last year's popular uprising ...
Egypt police deny Islamists behind student murder
Egypt's Interior Minister on Thursday tried to downplay the backgrounds of three men suspected of fatally stabbing a university student sitting with ...
Clinton goes to France for Syria talks, then Asia
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has escaped sweltering Washington but she won't be getting much of a respite from the heat as she ...
Sudan minister: There is no Arab Spring in Sudan
A Sudanese Cabinet minister says recent protests there against austerity measures are not comparable to last year's popular Mideast uprisings.
Hamas PM to meet Islamist president of Egypt
A Palestinian official says Gaza's prime minister will head to Cairo within the next two weeks to meet with Egypt's new Islamist president, who has ...
Egyptian deported by CIA gets residency in Sweden
Sweden has granted permanent residency to a former Egyptian terror suspect who was deported from Sweden to his homeland by the CIA in 2001, and who ...