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  • Battle rages over Libyan oil port

    The Libyan air force has bombed the oil refinery and port town of Marsa El Brega as battles between forces loyal and against Muammar Gaddafi continued to rage in several towns across the North African country. "We just watched an air force jet ... fly over Brega and drop at least one bomb and huge plumes of smoke are now coming out," Al.. More

  • Arabs may impose Libya no fly zone

    The Arab League has said it may impose a "no fly" zone on Libya in co-ordination with the African Union if fighting continues in Libya. Wednesday’s Arab League ministers' meeting in Cairo rejected any direct outside military intervention in Libya, where Muammar Gaddafi is trying to put down a revolt threatening his four decades in power... More

  • Anti-Saleh protests sweep Yemen

    A growing wave of protests across Yemen is mounting pressure on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to end his 32-year rule. Several thousand demonstrators turned out yet again in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday for what are now almost daily rallies against him and denied any links to the US. "The people who come to the square are youths, free youths.. More

  • Chaos at Libyan-Tunisian border

    The number of people fleeing violence and chaos in Libya has topped 140,000, with about half of them entering Tunisia. Aid workers warned on Tuesday that the situation at the border with Tunisia has reached a crisis point, as border guards were firing into the air, trying to control crowds pressing to get through the Ras Jdir crossing. Immigration.. More

  • NATO kills nine children in Afghan air strike

    Already facing public outrage over the killing of 65 civilians in an offensive, NATO is once again in the hot seat in the Kunar Province, with provincial police reporting that a NATO air strike killed nine children yesterday afternoon. NATO reported that its Forward Operating Base in the region came under rocket fire, and that it launched the air strikes.. More

  • Libya suspended from rights body

    The United Nations general assembly has unanimously suspended Libya's membership of the UN Human Rights Council, citing the government's use of violence against protesters. A statement said that Libya had committed "gross and systematic violations of human rights". The vote was passed by consensus during a session of the general assembly.. More

  • At least six Nato troops killed in Afghanistan

    At least six NATO soldiers were killed across Afghanistan yesterday in five separate attacks, one of the deadliest incidents in recent weeks. The deaths bring the overall toll for February to 34 killed, an increase from the 32 killed in January. So far the nationalities of the slain were not released, except for one who was reported to be an Italian.. More

  • Gaddafi forces mass in west

    Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi were massed in the west of the country on Tuesday, residents said, and the United States said it was moving warships and air forces closer to Libya. Residents feared pro-Gaddafi forces were preparing an attack to regain control of Nalut, about 60 km (38 miles) from the Tunisian border in western Libya,.. More

  • Yemen opposition rejects unity deal

    Yemen's opposition coalition has rejected an offer from the president to form a government of national unity provided that protests against him stop. Mohammed Saleh al-Qubati, an opposition leader, rejected Ali Abdullah Saleh's offer on Monday, saying that the president should step down instead of offering outdated "tranquilizers". Thousands.. More

  • Egypt imposes travel ban on Mubarak

    Egypt's general prosecutor has imposed a travel ban on former president Hosni Mubarak and his family pending further investigations. The prosecutor Abdel Magid Mahmud on Monday also ordered the freezing of all of their financial assets inside the country. "The decision today is acting on complaints received on wealth accumulated by former president.. More

  • New Tunisia PM appointed

    Mohammed Ghannouchi, Tunisia's interim prime minister, has resigned, as security forces clashed with protesters in Tunis, the capital, who were demanding some of his ministers be removed. Hours later it was announced that former minister Al-Baji Ca'ed al-Sebsi would take over the premiership. Al-Sebsi was foreign minister under Habib Bourguiba, Tunisia's.. More

  • Turkey's Necmettin Erbakan dead

    Necmettin Erbakan, a former Turkish prime minister and the founder of the country's modern Islamist movement, has died from heart failure at the age of 85. The Anatolia news agency says Erbakan died at Ankara's Guven hospital on Sunday. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's current prime minister, who was for many years one of Erbakan's lieutenants, said:.. More

  • At least 29 dead in Iraq protest crackdowns

    The death toll in Iraq’s broad anti-regime protests, and the subsequent violent crackdown by security forces, has risen to 29 killed, with untold hundreds of others wounded across at least eight cities since Friday. The Maliki government reacted to the protests with mass detentions of leaders and journalists, and one of the detained journalists,.. More

  • Libya protesters control Zawiyah

    Forces loyal to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have surrounded the city of Zawiyah, where anti-government protesters are bracing for an attack. Men opposed to Gaddafi were patrolling the streets of the city 50km from the capital on Sunday, saying they had seized weapons and even tanks which they would use to defend themselves. Ezeldina, a Zawiyah.. More

  • N Korea threatens war over leaflets

    North Korea has warned the South Korean military that it will shoot at South Korea if Seoul continues its recent psychological campaign, the North's official media said. "South Korea is driving the Korean peninsula to overall confrontation, with beefing up anti-republic, psychological plots," KCNA news agency reported on Sunday. "If.. More