REGIONAL NEWS

Results from yesterday's election in Algeria indicated Friday a win for the ruling National Liberation Front (FLN)

The political arena in Egypt on Sunday was in turmoil after ten of the 23 candidates in the presidential elections were banned.

The Egyptian parliament, dominated by Islamists, on Thursday approved a law that excludes former senior officials of the Hosni Mubarak regime from the presidential race.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has nominated its deputy general guide, Khairat el Shater, as its candidate to the upcoming presidential elections, scheduled for June 2012.

Three people were killed and dozens wounded on Monday in an explosion of an engine of a tug on a shipyard in the Suez Canal during maintenance work, security officials said.

The Egyptian army has lost contact with one of its patrols near the border with Sudan

The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, Patriarch Shenouda III has died at the age of 89, Egyptian state television announced Saturday.

 Abdullah al-Senussi, a top official of the ousted Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi was arrested Friday night at the airport of Nouakchott, Mauritania

Egypt's presidential election committee on Wednesday set May 23-24 as the dates for the country's first presidential election after the toppling of Hosni Mubarak last year.

After 33 years as head of state, Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh on Monday handed over his powers to his successor, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who was elected as the new president of this Arab nation.

At least 21 members of the Republican Guard were killed in Saturday's suicide bombing attack at the entrance of the presidential palace in Moukalla

The toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has waived the final say in his court hearings, Egyptian television reported on Wednesday.

The first Egyptian presidential election after the downfall of Hosni Mubarak's regime will be held in early June

Bahraini forces have clashed with anti-regime protesters in Bilad al Qadim village near the capital Manama on the eve of the first anniversary of the Bahraini uprising.

Clashes between protesters and police left a man dead in Saudi Arabia's eastern province of Qatif.

Angry protesters clashed with police outside the interior ministry in Cairo on Sunday for the fourth day after a deadly incident at a soccer match killed over 70 last week.

Egyptian police shot dead two protesters in the city of Suez as clashes erupted all over Egypt

At least 75 people were killed and 1,000 wounded on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said.

Dr. Kamal al Ganzouri, the Egyptian Prime Minister, on Tuesday, confirmed Western and Arab countries failed to fulfill their promise to aid Egypt.

As tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered Wednesday in Cairo's Tahrir Square, some 3,000 prisoners were freed Wednesday following orders by the military junta.

Egypt's first freely elected parliament was convened Monday in Cairo.

A local official told AFP on Monday that the town of Bani Walid is now totally controlled by supporters of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated Sunday in Sanaa, demanding the execution of Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh

Egyptian Islamists have won more than two-thirds of parliamentary seats, almost half for the Muslim Brotherhood