Regional News
March 4, 2013
Deadly clashes continue in Port Said leading to hundreds of injuries and the first reported civilian death. The Egyptian army denies exchanging fire with the police.
March 3, 2013
Violent clashes continue in Port Said and Mansoura, leaving one dead and dozens injured.
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, former interior minister Habib El-Adly and six aides will face retrial on 13 April for killing of protesters during revolution.
According to global advocacy group, Human Rights Watch, the detainees' lawyers are not being given access to adequate information.
Al Qaeda in North Africa commander, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, is killed by Chadian soldiers in Mali.
The president moves his former presidential campaign adviser into the position ahead of his planned trip to the region this month.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urges bickering Egyptian political leaders to forge a consensus to pave the way for aid that could help lift their country out of its deep economic crisis.
March 2, 2013
Clashes between police and demonstrators in the Egyptian city of Mansoura leave one dead after allegedly being run over by a police vehicle.
March 1, 2013
The cash-strapped country's finance minister sends a proposal to offer up key monuments to international firms.
February 28, 2013
The Tunisian president testifies in the case of Chokri Belaid, the opposition politician gunned down outside his house.
The head of Israel’s nuclear program, who has top secret information, the highest security clearance and free access to the country’s most guarded sensitive sites, recently had his second laptop stolen, Israeli media reported Thursday.
February 27, 2013
Two days of discussion on Irans nuclear programme have reached a stalemate but more talks are planed in March, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said after talks in Kazakhstan.
The Egyptian president calls for everyone to join the talks but the opposition boycott means the dialogue is a fairly one-sided affair.
February 26, 2013
Fresh Negotiations between Iran and the so-called P5+1 group started on Tuesday in Kazakhstan, over the Islamic Republic's contests nuclear programme.
At least 19 tourists have been reportedly killed in a hot air balloon accident in the southern town of Luxor in Egypt.
