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  • UN runs out of money to feed Syrian refugees

    The United Nations' food agency has announced that it is suspending its food programme serving more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees because it has run out of money. The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday that it "immediately needs" at least $64m in December alone to support the displaced Syrians now living in neighbouring countries.. More

  • Egypt students protest over Mubarak verdict

    Student protests have erupted in several universities across Egypt amid anger over a court decision to dismiss charges against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising against him. Several hundred students gathered in Cairo University on Sunday to protest against the verdict, according to news reports and.. More

  • ISIL suffers heavy losses in Syria's Kobane

    At least 50 fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) have been killed in the past 24 hours in Syria's Kobane, the biggest loss endured by the group since it launched its assault on the strategic border city on September 16. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday that the deaths were the result of either.. More

  • Bahrain holds run-off elections

    Bahraini voters are returning to the polls for a run-off election being boycotted by the opposition for the country's first full legislative elections since widespread unrest took place nearly four years ago. Saturday's election follows a first-round vote last weekend and will see 110 contenders compete for 34 parliamentary seats and 21 municipal seats... More

  • Arab League to push UN on Palestinian state

    The Arab League has agreed to present to the UN Security Council a draft resolution that will set a timeframe for the creation of a Palestinian state. "We can no longer wait. We can no longer live with the status quo. Israel wants us to be an authority without authority," Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said. "I understand the consequences.. More

  • Protests after Mubarak murder charges dropped

    Violence erupted in the Egyptian capital as security forces clashed with people protesting a decision to throw out charges against former president Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters during a 2011 uprising. Egyptian security forces shot one person dead late on Saturday, either with live ammunition or birdshot, as they moved in and cleared.. More

  • Erdogan slams US 'impertinence' over Kobane

    Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed US "rudeness" over the Syrian conflict, exposing the extent of strains between Washington and Ankara just days after the Turkish president met with US Vice President Joe Biden. Ties have soured in recent months over the reluctance of Turkish leaders to intervene militarily in the US-led campaign against the.. More

  • Tunisia's Essebsi wins first round of poll

    Tunisian secularist leader Beji Caid Essebsi has beat incumbent President Moncef Marzouki in the first round of the country's landmark presidential election, but the two men will now have to stand again in a December run-off, early results show. Essebsi, from the Nidaa Tounes party, received 39.46 percent in Sunday's poll, short of the overall majority.. More

  • 'Scores dead' in air strikes on Syria's Raqaa

    Syrian government air raids on the city of Raqqa, which the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has proclaimed as its capital, have killed at least 90 people, activists have said. About 125 more people were reported to have been injured in the air strikes, which targeted a number of residential districts in the northern city. The majority.. More

  • Iraqi forces reclaim two key towns from ISIL

    Iraqi forces have mounted their biggest operation since June, reclaiming two towns in the eastern province of Diyala from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters. In the province's south on Sunday, Iraqi troops and Shia militias retook the town of Sa'adiya and were moving towards nearby villages. In the north, Kurdish Peshmerga forces.. More

  • Iran nuclear talks extended till July 2015

    Negotiators have extended talks on Iran's nuclear programme for a comprehensive agreement until July 2015 after failing to meet a Monday deadline, diplomats said. But Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that a nuclear deal with the six world powers would be done despite a missed deadline in Vienna that prompted a seven-month extension.. More

  • 'Big gaps' remain in Iran nuclear talks

    Top level diplomats of the US and Germany have said that there were still serious gaps in talks over Iran's nuclear programme, despite signs of some progress two days before a deadline to reach a deal between Iran and major powers. Six major powers - the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China - began a final round of talks with Iran in Vienna on.. More

  • Tunisia to vote in historic presidential poll

    Tunisians are set to vote in a presidential election that will be a closely-fought contest between an old guard who flourished under decades of autocratic rule and a new breed of politicians that has emerged since a 2011 revolution. Sunday’s election has been billed as Tunisia's first free and fair poll since independence from France in 1956... More

  • UN blacklists Ansar al-Sharia armed group

    The UN Security Council has added a Libyan armed group accused of involvement in the 2012 attack on the US mission in Benghazi, to its list of terrorist groups. The council blacklisted Ansar al-Sharia on Wednesday for its ties to al-Qaeda, instating an arms embargo, assets freeze and global travel ban on the group at the request of Britain, France.. More

  • Israel begins demolishing homes over attacks

    Israel has demolished the home of a Palestinian in occupied East Jerusalem who it says carried out a deadly October attack, just hours after Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, warned of strict security measures in response to Tuesday's synagogue killings in Jerusalem. The house demolished on Wednesday in the Silwan neighborhood near the Old.. More

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