Libyan plane crash kills 96, Dutch boy survives
A Libyan plane crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli's airport, killing at least 96 people and leaving a field scattered with smoldering debris that included a large chunk of the tail painted with...
View ArticleEgypt: Web down, counterterror up
Internet service in Egypt was disrupted and the government deployed an elite special operations force in Cairo on Friday, hours before an anticipated new wave of anti-government protests.The...
View ArticleEgyptian president asks Cabinet to resign
Egypt's embattled President Hosni Mubarak said Friday he had asked his Cabinet to resign and promised reforms in his first response to protesters who have mounted the biggest challenge ever to his...
View ArticleHow long can Mubarak hang on?
With protests raging, Egypt's president named his intelligence chief as his first-ever vice president on Saturday, setting the stage for a successor as chaos engulfed the capital. Soldiers stood by --...
View ArticleEgypt President Mubarak announces new government
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak swore in a new Cabinet on Monday, replacing one dissolved as a concession to unprecedented anti-government protests.In the most significant change, the interior...
View ArticleEgypt’s opposition calls for 1 million on streets
A coalition of opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo's streets Tuesday to demand the removal of President Hosni Mubarak, the clearest sign yet that a unified leadership was...
View ArticleThousands of Egypt protesters pack square as deadline arrives
Protesters demanding President Hosni Mubarak's ouster packed Cairo's central square by the tens of thousands Friday, waving Egyptian flags, singing the national anthem and cheering, appearing undaunted...
View ArticleBaby steps: Mubarak creates reform committees
President Hosni Mubarak set up a committee Tuesday to recommend constitutional amendments to relax presidential eligibility rules and impose term limits -- seeking to meet longtime popular demands as a...
View ArticleFreed young leader energizes Egyptian protests
A young leader of Egypt's anti-government protesters, newly released from detention, joined a massive crowd in Cairo's Tahrir Square for the first time Tuesday and was greeted with cheers, whistling...
View ArticleEgypt: Muslim Brotherhood plans political party
Egypt's long banned Muslim Brotherhood said Tuesday it intends to form a political party once democracy is established, as the country's new military rulers launched a panel of experts to amend the...
View ArticleLibyan protests: Ghadafi’s son warns of civil war
Libyan protesters celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country's second largest city after bloody fighting, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with...
View ArticleEgypt’s military says prime minister has resigned
The prime minister appointed by ousted President Hosni Mubarak has resigned, Egypt's military rulers said Thursday, meeting a key demand of the opposition protest movement.In a failed attempt to quiet...
View ArticleEgypt’s al-Zawahri likely to succeed bin Laden
For years, Osama bin Laden's charisma kept al-Qaida's ranks filled with zealous recruits.But it was the strategic thinking and the organizational skills of his Egyptian right hand man that kept the...
View ArticleAl-Qaida names al-Zawahri as new leader
Al-Qaida's longtime No. 2 leader, a doctor from a prominent Egyptian family who worked with Osama bin Laden for decades, has succeeded the slain terrorist as head of the global network, the group said...
View ArticlePolice, protesters clash for 2nd day in Egypt
Egyptian security forces clashed for a second day in Cairo Wednesday with hundreds of youths demanding that the country's military rulers speed up prosecution of police officers accused of brutality...
View ArticleEgypt’s Mubarak denies all charges against him
An ailing, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak, lying ashen-faced on a hospital bed inside a metal defendants cage with his two sons beside him in white prison uniforms, faced the start of his historic trial...
View ArticleEgyptians vote in first free presidential vote
CAIRO (AP) — After a lifetime of being told who will rule them, Egyptians dove enthusiastically into the uncertainty of the Arab world's first competitive presidential election Wednesday. Up to the...
View ArticleMubarak condition deteriorates after a stroke
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was moved out of prison to a military hospital Tuesday after the 84-year-old ousted leader suffered a stroke and his condition rapidly deteriorated, officials said,...
View ArticleSyrian rebels warily accept foreign fighters’ help
ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — The presence of foreign Islamic militants battling Syria's regime is raising concerns over the possible injection of al-Qaida's influence into the country's civil war.Syria's...
View ArticleEgyptian president grants himself far reaching power
CAIRO — Egypt's Islamist president unilaterally decreed greater authorities for himself Thursday and effectively neutralized a judicial system that had emerged as a key opponent by declaring that the...
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