There are 17999 articles

  • Calls for weekend protests in Syria

    Calls for protests in Syria are spreading on social media websites, following popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Organizers say protests will be staged in front of the parliament in the capital, Damascus, on Friday and Saturday, and at Syrian embassies across the world. Several pages have been set up on Facebook, with the most popular one, named.. More

  • Yemen president not to extend term

    Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemeni president, has backed down on a plan to rule his impoverished Arab country for lifetime after mass protests demanding his ouster. According to president's announcement on Wednesday, he will freeze constitutional amendments that could see him re-elected for another term. This move would bring an end to a three-decade rule.. More

  • Mubarak pledge to step down dismissed as too slow

    Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday he would surrender power in September, angering protesters who want an immediate end to his 30-year-rule, and prompting the United States to say change "must begin now." The 82-year-old leader said he would not seek re-election when his presidential term ends in September. "I will work.. More

  • Jordan's king sacks cabinet

    King Abdullah II of Jordan has sacked his government in the wake of street protests and has asked an ex-army general to form a new cabinet, Jordan's Royal Palace has announced. King Abdullah's move on Tuesday comes after thousands of Jordanians took to the streets, inspired by anti-government protests in Tunisia and Egypt. Jordanians had been calling.. More

  • Sudan student 'dies in clashes'

    A student who was beaten by police during violent anti-government demonstrations in Khartoum, Sudan's capital, has died of his wounds in Omdurman hospital, protesters have said. "Mohammed Abdulrahman, from Ahlia University, died last night in Omdurman hospital as a result of his ... wounds after he was beaten by police," said an activist.. More

  • Total internet blackout in Egypt

    Egypt's last working internet service provider, the Noor Group, has been disconnected, a US Web monitoring company said, leaving the crisis-torn country completely offline. Renesys, a New Hampshire-based firm that monitors internet routing data in real time, said on Monday that the Noor network "started disappearing from the Internet" around.. More

  • Egypt gears up for gigantic protest

    Protest organizers have announced an indefinite general strike and called for a "march of a million" in the Egyptian capital on Tuesday, the eighth day of an uprising that has claimed at least 125 lives in clashes between demonstrators and police. Another million-strong march was planned in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, as national.. More

  • Egypt condemned for blocking media

    International press institutes have come out strongly against Egyptian authorities’ suppression of the media, following the withdrawal of Al Jazeera’s license to broadcast from the North African country. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned on Sunday the information ministry’s move to shutdown Al Jazeera’s bureau.. More

  • Tunisian leader returns from exile

    Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of a formerly banned party, has returned to Tunisia after 21 years in exile. More than 1,000 people gathered at the main international airport to welcome the leader of al-Nahda as he returned from the UK on Sunday, after the interim government pledged to allow his party and other movements banned under the rule of now.. More

  • Sudan police clash with protesters

    Sudanese police have beaten and arrested students as protests broke out throughout Khartoum demanding the government resign, inspired by a popular uprising in neighboring Egypt. Hundreds of armed riot police on Sunday broke up groups of young Sudanese demonstrating in central Khartoum and surrounded the entrances of four universities in the capital,.. More

  • South Sudan voters chose secession

    Close to 99 per cent of those who cast their ballots in south Sudan's referendum voted in favor of secession from the north, a referendum official has said. "The vote for separation was 99.57 per cent," Chan Reek Madut, the deputy head of the commission organizing the vote, told cheering crowds on Sunday in the first official announcement.. More

  • Thousands rally in support of Egyptians

    Thousands of people across the world have taken to the streets to express support for the anti-government demonstrations in Egypt as Egyptians continue the uprising in the country. As the popular uprising against the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is continuing, demonstrations in Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Germany, France and the United.. More

  • New protests erupt in Yemen

    Dozens of activists calling for the ouster of Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's president, have clashed with government supporters in Sanaa, the country's capital. Plainclothes police also attacked the demonstrators, who marched to the Egyptian embassy in Sanaa on Saturday chanting "Ali, leave, leave" and "Tunisia left, Egypt after it and.. More

  • Thousands protest in Jordan

    Thousands of people in Jordan have taken to the streets in protests, demanding the country's prime minister step down, and the government curb rising prices, inflation and unemployment. In the third consecutive Friday of protests, about 3,500 opposition activists from Jordan's main Islamist opposition group, trade unions and leftist organizations gathered.. More

  • Egypt's president sends in army, resists demands to quit

    Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak refused on Saturday to bow to demands that he resign after ordering troops and tanks into cities in an attempt to quell an explosion of street protests against his 30-year rule. Demonstrators were still out in the streets in the early hours of Saturday morning. Parts of Cairo looked like a war zone, filled with smoke,.. More