CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt has decided to withdraw its ambassador from Israel to protest the deaths of five policemen killed on the border during retaliatory attacks on Palestinian militants, state television said Saturday.
"Egypt has decided to withdraw its ambassador to Israel until there is an official apology," it said.
The Egyptian government had asked "for an official apology from Israe [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - US President Barack Obama led a chorus of calls by world leaders for Syria's president to step down, as the United Nations warned his regime could be guilty of crimes against humanity.
Obama also slapped harsh new sanctions on Syria, freezing state assets and blacklisting the oil and gas sector, in an escalation of pressure aimed at halting a bloody protest crackdown [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - Israeli warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip and raided the Egyptian border, killing militants blamed for coordinated gun, grenade and bomb attacks that left eight Israelis dead.
Six Israeli civilians -- including two women -- as well as a soldier and a police officer died after the attacks Thursday in the desert near the Red Sea resort of Eilat. A [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egyptian police shot dead two sub-Saharan migrants, one of them Sudanese, as they tried to cross illegally into Israel, police officials and medics said on Thursday.
The men were shot dead Wednesday night as they tried to climb over barbed wire along the border, they said, adding that they had not yet identified the second dead migrant. Five Sudanese migrants in the group [...]
THE HAGUE (AFP) - (AFP) - Lebanese authorities should try harder to arrest four Hezbollah members wanted for the 2005 murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri, the tribunal investigating the case said Thursday.
"The recent report by the Lebanese authorities on the steps that they have taken to search for the accused was... assessed by the STL president," the UN-backed Special Tribu [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuti has warned that a US veto of a Palestinian bid to join the UN would be tantamount to "terrorism" and would wreck ties with Washington.
In an interview conducted through several of his lawyers, Barghuti, an influential leader with widespread support among the Palestinian public, told AFP he was fully supp [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - An Egyptian security chief said on Thursday a military operation in Sinai against militants uncovered a bomb-making factory and netted 20 wanted men, including Palestinians and radical Islamists.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Egypt to ensure security in the Sinai following a deadly attack across the border in Israel on Thursday that killed seven [...]
TUNIS (AFP) - (AFP) - Confronted with widespread public discontent, Tunisian Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi on Thursday defended his government's record and said it was doing "the impossible" to bring about elections.
In a 40-minute speech to the nation, Caid Essebsi defended the transitional government's record since February, following the January ouster of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt's military said on Thursday it has dropped charges against prominent blogger Asmaa Mahfouz of insulting the country's ruling generals after a wave of criticism from rights groups.
The military, in a statement on its Facebook page, said it also decided to drop charges against another activist, Loai Nagati, who also faced trial by a military court for insulting the gen [...]
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - (AFP) - Kuwait's Oil Minister Mohammad al-Baseeri Thursday formed a committee to probe an $800 million contract between state-owned Kuwait Oil Co. and Shell, an official statement said.
The six-member panel will review procedures leading to the awarding of the Enhanced Technical Services Agreement in February 2010 and examine the implementation of the deal, said the statemen [...]
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