ADEN: At least 25 suspected al Qaeda-linked militants were killed on Wednesday in a third day of fighting with Yemeni troops in the south of the country, residents and local officials said.
Officials said the clashes took place at Jebel Yasuf, (...)
KUWAIT: Facing a bigger and bolder opposition swept into parliament by voters frustrated with Kuwait's dysfunctional politics, the country's rulers are under pressure to appoint a cabinet that can survive long enough to deliver much-needed (...)
DUBAI: Kuwait's interim government tendered its resignation on Sunday, state television said, making way for the formation of a new cabinet following a snap parliamentary election on Thursday.
Under the constitution, a new cabinet must be formed (...)
KUWAIT: Kuwait's Islamist-led opposition made significant gains in a snap election, while women candidates did not win a single seat in the Gulf state's fourth parliament in six years, official results of the ballot showed on Friday.
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UMM AL-QUWAIN: In a dark auditorium, rows of men in traditional white robes and women swathed in black watch silently as computer-animated characters take their turn at electronic voting machines in a film aimed at educating them on how to (...)
TUNIS/CAIRO: The tanks parked beside Tunisia's tourism ministry and the capital's main souk were probably not quite what travel agents had in mind when they said better security was the way to tempt back holiday makers.
Months after a popular (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital swung to a net loss last year after it wrote down the value of underperforming oil and gas assets, the company said on Wednesday.
Citadel also said it had not received any direct acquisition (...)
CAIRO: An Egyptian panel investigating corruption cases committed under deposed president Hosni Mubarak has banned the former head of a market regulator from leaving the country, the state news agency MENA said on Tuesday.
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CAIRO: When Peter Matta went to check crops on his land on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital in the aftermath of an uprising that threw Hosni Mubarak from power, he was met by five strangers with guns.
"What are you doing on our land?" said (...)
CAIRO: State-owned Banque Misr is in talks with Saudi investors to sell its stake in Samba Financial Group, Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Sunday.
Banque Misr's deputy chairman told the paper he had turned down offers from several Saudi (...)
CAIRO: An Egyptian rights group said on Tuesday it was "deeply troubled" by the sentencing of a teenager to death and called for the verdict to be overturned.
A military court on Monday sentenced the 17-year-old and three other men to be hanged (...)
FAYOUM: Who better for president than a plain-talking, female former talk show host eager to tackle the corruption and nepotism blamed for Egypt's national malaise?
So says glamorous TV anchor Bothaina Kamel, one of the more unusual candidates to (...)
CAIRO: Libya's rebel national council has asked Egypt to stop Libyans based there from trying to destabilize rebel-held eastern Libya and funding Muammar Gaddafi's government, the head of the council said on Sunday.
Mustafa Abdel Jalil said he (...)
CAIRO: Amnesty International urged Egypt's interim rulers on Wednesday to lift emergency laws that it said had let security officials ride roughshod over human rights for 30 years under former President Hosni Mubarak.
The human rights group said (...)
CAIRO: The sentencing of a blogger to jail for criticizing Egypt's army has drawn a chorus of objections from rights groups, who say the country's ruling military council is drawing red lines around free speech.
Maikel Nabil, 26, was taken from (...)
LONDON: Emerging stocks plumbed a 2-1/2 month low on Friday as the political stalemate in Egypt weakened investors' appetite for risk, while resulting higher oil prices lifted the rouble to a 8-1/2 month high.
MSCI's emerging index shed 0.6 (...)
LONDON: Oil retraced part of a steep four-session drop on Thursday as worries about Ireland's debt crisis eased and a sharp crude inventory drawdown in top consumer the United States propped up prices.
US December crude contract was up $1.35 or (...)
LONDON: Oil prices crept higher on Thursday, with all eyes on US weekly jobless numbers due later for clues about the potential size and pace of the US Federal Reserve's stimulus package expected next week.
By 0930 GMT, US crude for December (...)