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  • Protests grow in Tahrir after Mubarak verdict

    Thousands of people descended on Tahrir Square to protest on Saturday night, a spontaneous outpouring of anger after a Cairo court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison but acquitted a number of other former regime officials. The verdict was initially met with euphoria: Egyptians celebrated upon hearing that Mubarak was convicted.. More

  • Israel returns remains of Palestinians

    Israel has handed over the remains of scores of Palestinian fighters killed in attacks on Israel. Eighty bodies were handed over to Palestinian officials in Ramallah on Thursday and another 11 were transferred to the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority described them as "martyrs" killed since Israel's occupation of the West Bank in 1967. The.. More

  • Mubarak's sons face fresh charges

    The two sons of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's ousted president, will face charges of stock market manipulation, the country's public prosecutor has said, three days before a court was due to issue a verdict in a separate trial for their role in alleged corruption. Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, both in their 40s, are already standing trial with their father in a.. More

  • Executions reported in Syria

    The head of UN observers in Syria, Major-General Robert Mood, said 13 bodies had been discovered in the east of the country, with their hands tied behind their backs and signs that some had been shot in the head from close range. The bodies were discovered late on Tuesday in the area of Assukar, 50km east of Deir al-Zor. The new violence came as Turkey.. More

  • Talks under way to end Sudan conflict

    Negotiators for Sudan and South Sudan have held their first talks since deadly border fighting last month. Teams from both sides are in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, for African Union-led talks which were stalled by heavy clashes last month, the worst fighting since the South won independence last July. Idriss Mohammed Abdel Qadir from Khartoum.. More

  • Somali president unscathed in ambush

    Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has escaped unscathed from an ambush by al-Shabab fighters during a visit to Afgoye. Ahmed was making a rare trip out of Mogadishu on Tuesday when the convoy was attacked by gunmen in the Afgoye corridor, a key road about 30km north of the capital. Two Somali soldiers were wounded in the attack but Ahmed was able.. More

  • UN to issue warning on Flame computer virus

    A United Nations agency charged with helping member nations secure their national infrastructures plans to issue a sharp warning about the risk of the "Flame" computer virus that was recently discovered in Iran and other parts of the Middle East. "This is the most serious [cyber] warning we have ever put out," said Marco Obiso,.. More

  • Syria diplomats face expulsions over massacre

    Western countries have expelled Syrian diplomats after the United Nations said most of the victims of the massacre in Houla village were summarily executed without decisively saying who carried out most of the killings. The United States, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Australia, Canada, Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria and the Netherlands said on Tuesday.. More

  • Libya's first post-Gaddafi vote may face delay

    Libya's former deputy election commissioner says he quit his post because he does not believe the country is ready for next month's elections. Sghair Majeri has told Al Jazeera that "holding elections by June 19 is a mission impossible" as it is a time-consuming process. "The ratification process of the final list of candidates will.. More

  • Israeli officers face Turkish trial

    A Turkish court has charged four senior Israeli military commanders over the killing of nine Turkish activists trying to reach Gaza in 2010. Ex-military chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi and former heads of military intelligence, the navy and air force are expected to be tried in absentia. The nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed after Israeli troops.. More

  • Former Mubarak aide jailed for corruption

    A Cairo criminal court has sentenced former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's chief of staff to seven years in jail on corruption charges, Egypt's official news agency reports. The court on Sunday also ordered Zakaria Azmi to pay a fine of 38 million Egyptian pounds (about $6.2m). Azmi was jailed last year and put on trial in October, charged with.. More

  • UN ‘condemns’ Syria over Houla massacre

    The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has unanimously condemned the use of heavy weapons in the Houla massacre that left 108 people killed, including 49 children and 34 women. The council said in a press statement issued after an emergency meeting on Sunday that the "outrageous use of force" against civilians violated international law.. More

  • Malian rebels and Islamic fighters merge

    The two groups that seized control of Mali's north have announced that they have agreed to merge and create an independent Islamic state in the northern half of the west African nation. The merger, announced on Saturday, would see the Tuareg separatist-led National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), and Ansar Dine fighters join forces to.. More

  • Afghan civilians killed in NATO airstrike

    Afghan authorities say that at least eight members of a family have been killed after an airstrike by the US-led NATO coalition in the eastern province of Paktia. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) coalition said it was aware of the ‘allegation’ and was investigating the incident, which happened late on Saturday night. Rohullah.. More

  • UN confirms 'massacre' of children in Houla

    UN leader Ban Ki-moon and UN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan have condemned a massacre of more than 90 civilians in Syria as an "appalling and brutal" breach of international law. Ban and Annan "condemn in the strongest possible terms the killing, confirmed by United Nations observers, of dozens of men, women and children" in.. More