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  • West Bank settlers attack ex-prisoner\'s house

    Dozens of Israeli settlers have attacked a house in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron in protest against the release of a man in the recent Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swap. Israeli soldiers on Saturday clashed with the settlers as the armymoved in to try to keepthe would-be assailantsaway from the house. They were trying to get at Hani Jaber,.. More

  • Libya\'s former spy chief Senussi arrested

    Libya's former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi has been arrested, an official in the National Transitional Council(NTC)has said. "Abdullah al-Senussi was arrested in Al-Guira region in the south of the country," the NTC official, who declined to be identified, told the AFP news agency on Sunday, without providing details on when.. More

  • Syria: Arab League used as tool by West

    Syria's foreign minister has attacked the Arab League, saying the organization is being used as a "tool" to take the Syrian crisis to the UN Security Council. Walid al-Moualem was speaking in Damascus on Sunday shortly after the Arab League rejected Syria's proposed amendments to a peace plan to end the country's turmoil, saying the changes.. More

  • Deaths as Egypt police clash with protesters

    Thousands of police have clashed withdemonstrators for control of Cairo's Tahrir Square, leaving at least one protester dead and hundreds others injured in the Egyptian capital and prompting protests and at least onefatality elsewhere in the country. The violence on Saturday came just nine days before Egypt's first elections since former president.. More

  • Saif al-Islam Gaddafi arrested in Libya

    Muammar Gaddafi's son and one-time heir apparent Saif al-Islam has been detained in the southern desert, Libya's interim justice minister and other officials have said. Fighters from the western mountain city of Zintanannounced his capture on Saturday as gunfire and car horns marked jubilation across the country at thearrest of the British-educated.. More

  • Syria\'s Assad: \'The conflict will continue\'

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assadhas told a British newspaper that his government will continueto take action against opposition protesters and will not bow to mounting international pressure to end the months-long crackdown that has left thousands dead. "The conflict will continue and the pressure to subjugate Syria will continue,"Assad.. More

  • Arab League extends Syria deadline

    The Arab Leaguehas offered the government of Bashar al-Assad three moredays to stop violence or else face economic sanctions after a previous deadline forSyria to actpassed on Wednesday. The announcement followed theregional bloc's foreign ministers meeting in the Moroccan capital, Rabat, to decide their next move after Assadignoredtheultimatum.. More

  • France summons Israeli envoy over Gaza attack

    France has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Paris to a meeting at the foreign ministryafter an air strike wounded the French consul in Gaza, along withhis wife and daughter. A spokesman for the ministry said on Wednesdaythat France's ambassador in Tel Aviv had complained to Israeli authorities over the bombing, and that Israel's envoy had been.. More

  • Monti unveils new Italian government

    Mario Monti has beensworn in as Italy's prime minister, shortly after he announced a newgovernmentto deal with the crisis that has broughtthe countryto the brink of economic disaster and endangered the entire eurozone. Monti, a former European commissioner, was the first member of the new government to be sworn in by President Giorgio Napolitano.. More

  • Activists: Syrian intelligence base attacked

    Syrianactivists say that army defectors have attacked an intelligence complex in theDamascus suburbs,according to the Reuters news agency. If confirmed, the attack would be the first reported assault on a major security facility in the eight-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Members of the Free Syrian Army fired rockets and machine.. More

  • Questions swirl as Thai floodwaters recede

    Floodwaters are finally receding in Thailand, but the government continues to face questions over which communities were spared and which were flooded. The centre of Bangkok has remained largely dry, thanks to a vast network of sandbags and pumping stations. But those defenses have saturated surrounding areas under metres of water, andYingluck.. More

  • Obama in Australia to boost military links

    US President Barack Obama has arrived in Australia at the beginning of a twice delayed visit inwhich he isexpected toconsolidate security ties between the nations by updating a 60-year oldsecurity alliance. Obama, making his first visit tothe country since his election in 2008,was greeted by Julia Gillard, the Australian prime minister, as Air Force.. More

  • Final Tunisian election results announced

    New Roman;">The moderate Islamists of the Ennahda party have won 89 of the 217 seats in Tunisia's new constituent assembly, according tothe final results released by the country's election commission. The once-banned movement will write the fledgling democracy's new constitution and appoint an interim government ahead of new elections tentatively.. More

  • Dozens killed\' in Syria clashes

    At least 40 people have been killed in violence in Syria, rights groups and activists say, as pro- and anti-government forces reportedly clashed in Deraa province and elsewhere, with protests against Bashar al-Assad's government continuing. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that security forces shot dead at least 16.. More

  • One killed in Israeli strike on Gaza

    An Israeli air strike on a compound in the northernGaza Strip has killed one Palestinian and wounded at leastthree others, doctors say. Palestinian medical officials said that the strike late on Sunday night targeted a naval base used by Hamas, killing a policeman. The mayor of Beit Lahiya, Izzedine Dahnoun, said an electricity transformer supplying.. More