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  • Tunisia files cases against Ben Ali

    Tunisian authorities have prepared 18 legal cases against former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, including "voluntary manslaughter" and "drug trafficking", the state TAP news agency reported. The revelation was made by Justice Minister Lazhar Karoui Chebbi in an interview aired on state television on Wednesday, TAP said. Other.. More

  • Syrian protests spread to Aleppo

    Syrian students have demonstrated in the country's second-largest city of Aleppo in the first protests there since a wave of pro-reform demonstrations broke out in mid-March, an activist has said. Radif Mustafa, the president of the Kurdish Committee for Human Rights, said security forces and students clashed on the campus of Aleppo's faculty of literature. .. More

  • Syrian security forces attack village

    Syrian security forces have fired upon people in the village of Baida, near the coastal town of Baniyas in the country's northeast, injuring at least one person, witnesses told Al Jazeera. Security forces have so far arrested 200 residents in Baniyas as challenges to the rule of Bashar al-Assad continued to spread, according to a human-rights lawyer. ".. More

  • Libya contact group meets in Qatar

    Libyan opposition seeking international recognition are to tell world powers at a meeting in the Qatari capital Doha that Muammar Gaddafi's removal from power is the only way out of their country's deepening crisis. Wednesday's conference of the "International Contact Group on Libya" is expected to focus on the future of Libya after an African.. More

  • Mubarak and sons 'detained' on graft charges

    Hosni Mubaraka, Egypt's former president, has been detained along with his two sons pending investigations into accusations of corruption and abuse of authority, the prosecutor general has said. A statement from the top prosecutor's office, posted on Facebook early on Wednesday, said Mubarak''s detention would last 15 days. "The prosecutor general.. More

  • Students rally in Syria's capital over deaths

    Hundreds of students have rallied in Damascus, the Syrian capital, to express solidarity with pro-democracy protesters killed over the weekend. The rare demonstration on Monday at Damascus University reportedly turned violent when security forces beat up and arrested several protesters who were shouting for freedom and unity, witnesses told the Associated.. More

  • Libyan opposition rejects African Union road map

    Libya's opposition Transitional National Council has rejected outright the African Union's proposal to negotiate a way out from the country's deepening crisis. The Benghazi-based council, which is demanding an end to Muammar Gaddafi's decades-long rule, said the "road map" set out by a delegation of five African presidents was "outdated",.. More

  • Japan 'raises nuclear alert to highest level'

    News reports say Japan has decided to raise the severity level of the crisis at its stricken nuclear power plant to 7 - the highest level and equal to the 1986 disaster at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union. Quoting sources at Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Japan's nuclear safety watchdog, Kyodo News agency and public broadcaster NHK.. More

  • Egypt prosecutor to question Mubarak

    Egypt's public prosecutor has summoned Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president, and his sons as part of investigations into the killing of protesters and embezzlement of public funds. Mubarak's sons, Gamal and Alaa, have also been summoned in the embezzlement investigation, the prosecutor said in a statement on Sunday. Ahmed Nazif, the country's.. More

  • Gulf ministers meet to discuss Yemen

    Gulf Arab foreign ministers, seeking a resolution to the political crisis in Yemen, have urged Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country's president, to ensure a peaceful transition to his deputy. Meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday, they also called for the formation of a national unity government - headed by the opposition - to prepare for fresh.. More

  • Deaths reported in fresh Syria violence

    Men loyal to Bashar al-Assad, Syria's president, are reported to have opened fire on a group of people in the northern port city of Baniyas, as widespread protests against the country's leadership continue. Casualties were unconfirmed following the shooting on Sunday but state television said a security official was killed while the Associated Press.. More

  • Dozens of Yemen protesters wounded

    Dozens of protesters demanding that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh end his more than 30-year-old rule were wounded in clashes with security forces in the capital Sanaa as pro-democracy rallies continue. Riot police with batons were out in force late Saturday, using tear gas and live fire against protesters in the capital, Al Jazeera's special.. More

  • 18 Palestinians killed by Israeli military in Gaza since Thursday

    Medical Sources in Gaza stated that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli shells since Thursday arrived to 18. A woman and her daughter were the latest casualty. The sources stated that the army bombarded a home on resident Ibrahim Qdeih, in Abasan Al Kubra area, east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing his wife,.. More

  • Thousands attend Syria funerals

    Thousands gathered to attend the funerals of those killed in Syria's recent violence, while a local rights group accused state security forces of committing a crime against humanity, following the violent deaths. People chanted freedom slogans after assembling for the mass funerals near the old Omari mosque in the old quarter of the southern city of.. More

  • Clashes erupt around Cairo's Tahrir Square

    Hundreds of protesters demanding that Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president, be put on trial for alleged corruption, have retaken Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square, hours after security forces attempted to disperse them, in a clash that killed at least one person. By 7am (local time) on Saturday morning, army and central security troops appeared.. More