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  • Abidjan facing 'rapid offensive'

    The prime minister of Ivory Coast's internationally recognized president, Alassane Ouattara, has said the time is right for a "rapid offensive" against the country's main city, Abidjan. Guillaume Soro said days of clashes in the city had sown panic among troops loyal to incumbent Laurent Gbagbo. Many residents are trapped indoors without.. More

  • Libyans fight to control Brega

    Pro-democracy forces have fought with troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for the third straight day in and around the key oil town of Brega, as foreign air strikes continued to rain down on the government's forces. Hundreds of opposition fighters retreated east of Brega under artillery fire earlier on Sunday before regrouping and firing.. More

  • Hundreds wounded in Yemen protests

    As many as 1,600 people have been injured in the Yemeni city of Taiz after police reportedly used tear gas and live ammunition to disperse pro-democracy protesters in the city's main square, Al Jazeera has learnt. A sit-in was held in the square on Sunday as part of nationwide anti-government protests. According to witnesses, police also opened fire.. More

  • Afghans continue to denounce Quran burning

    Hundreds of people have taken to Afghanistan's streets in fresh protests against a Quran burning in the United States. At least one person was killed and 16 others injured in Sunday's protests, local officials said. Demonstrations occurred in the main southern city of Kandahar as well as Jalalabad, in the east, officials said. The protest in Jalalabad.. More

  • Gaddafi forces shell Misurata

    A mortar attack by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi killed at least one person and wounded several others in Misurata early on Sunday morning. Two mortar shells hit a building that had previously been used to treat the wounded, but patients and medical staff had left a few days ago, a resident told the Reuters news agency. Ambulances.. More

  • Massacre alleged as battle for Abidjan rages

    The fierce standoff between fighters loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president of Cote d'Ivoire, and Alassane Ouattara, the country's internationally recognized leader, has intensified. Gbagbo's force retook the bridge leading to his presidential palace on Saturday after the opposition had appeared poised to topple him. The latest fighting.. More

  • Yemen protesters clash with police

    Yemen's opposition proposed a transition plan on Saturday which would see Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country's longtime president, hand power to a vice president while steps are taken toward a national unity government and new elections. As protests continued across the country calling for Saleh to step down, opposition officials said on Saturday that.. More

  • Many arrested in Syria after protests

    Syrian security forces have arrested more than 20 people, a rights group said, a day after at least four deaths were reported as thousands marched in pro-reform protests. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights named 21 people who had been rounded up on Saturday in the southern city of Daraa and in Homs to the north of the capital. "It is assumed.. More

  • More deaths as Afghans protest the Noble Quran burning

    Eight people have been killed in Afghanistan as protests continue against the burning of the Quran by a controversial US pastor. Thousands of people took to the streets in Kandahar city on Saturday, a day after a deadly attack on UN staff. Protesters attacked the police and set shops ablaze. About 70 people were injured. Abdul Qayoum Pukhla, a senior.. More

  • Fighting intensifies around Gbagbo home

    Forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara, Cote d'Ivoire's internationally recognized leader, continue to battle loyalists of his rival Laurent Gbagbo in the commercial capital of Abidjan, having seized control of state television overnight. Heavy fighting raged on Friday in the neighborhoods close to the presidential palace as well as near Gbagbo's home and.. More

  • Deaths as Syrian protesters return to streets

    Several deaths have been reported in another day of anti-government protests in several Syrian cities, activists have said. Protest marches against Baath Party rule broke out in cities in the north and south after Friday prayers, including in the flashpoint city of Daraa. Hundreds of people took to the streets in and around the capital, Damascus,.. More

  • More 'defections from Gaddafi inner circle'

    There are unconfirmed reports that more people have left the inner circle of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, following the high level desertion of Moussa Koussa, Libya's foreign minister, who arrived in the UK on Wednesday. It is understood a group of top officials who had headed to Tunisia for talks have decided to stay there. Some Arabic newspapers.. More

  • Egypt to vote on president by end of year

    Egypt will hold presidential elections one or two months after a parliamentary vote scheduled for September, a member of the country's ruling military council said on Wednesday. An Egyptian presidential election will be held by the end of the year and the ruling military council will exercise the powers of the head of state until then, the military.. More

  • Libya's foreign minister defects

    Moussa Koussa, the Libyan foreign minister, has defected to the United Kingdom, the British foreign ministry has confirmed. The ministry said in a statement that Koussa had arrived at Farnborough Airport, in the south of England, on a flight from Tunisia on Wednesday. "He travelled here under his own free will. He has told us that he is resigning.. More

  • Gaddafi's stand risks stalemate in the east

    Troops loyal to longtime Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have capitalized on an apparent slowdown in the frequency of coalition air strikes in the east and have pushed back opposition fighters, threatening a standoff. Regime forces shelled opposition fighters with mortars and Grad rockets on Tuesday, forcing them to retreat from Bin Jawad, a small town.. More