Islamic-World

UNITED NATIONS (AP)–Egypt, Angola and Qatar easily won seats on the U.N. Human Rights Council Thursday despite opposition from human rights groups, but Belarus trailed and was forced into a second round of voting.

CAIRO — Mohammad Gad walks barefoot through the muddy tannery, seemingly not bothered by the acrid odours of chemicals and the stink of unprocessed skins.

TUNIS (Reuters) — Veteran dissident Moncef Marzouki returned to Tunisia on Saturday and vowed to campaign for democracy, shrugging off government plans to prosecute him for allegedly inciting Tunisians to commit violence. “I come here to carry out my struggle peacefully,” the human rights campaigner told reporters after a flight …

NAIROBI (AFP) — The United Nations said Thursday it had pulled out all of its foreign staff from parts of Somalia controlled by the country’s powerful Islamist movement, citing threats to workers. The world body said the threats, coupled with insecurity in southern and central Somalia after the murder of …

OLGAGH, Morocco — The glare of an arc lamp reveals a stretch of dirt track where, to the beat of a drum, villagers huddled in a circle sing in honour of the bride. In a house nearby, veiled and bejewelled, 17-year old Rabhah sits in silence in a sparse room …

 Rome/Brussels: The European Commission said yesterday it was closely following Russian gas monopoly Gazprom’s cooperation deal with Algeria’s Sonatrach after Italy said it could lead to higher gas prices in Europe.

TRIPOLI (AFP) — Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the AIDS

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, whose country abandoned weapons of mass destruction programs in 2003, said that at one stage Libya had come close to building a nuclear bomb,

CAIRO — Fifty years ago, Egypt reclaimed control of the coveted Suez Canal, a momentous coup that heralded the heyday of pan-Arabism and sparked a war that sealed the decline of Europe’s colonial powers.

BAIDOA (AP) — Hundreds of Ethiopian troops moved into a second Somali town on Saturday to protect the country’s weak, UN-backed government, as talks aimed at easing tensions fell apart when the government did not turn up and Islamist delegates walked out.