BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press= TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Police fired at an angry crowd of 1,000 attacking the police station in the northwestern town of Kef on Saturday, killing two people and injuring 17 others, the Interior Ministry said. The official Tunisian news agency said the crowd had turned on police after the police chief "abused" a member of the community. A local journalist said the police chief slapped a woman during a demonstration, triggering the violence between police and...
Muslim Brotherhood, VP Suleiman to meet Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- As Egyptians began a 13th day of protests Sunday under what appears to be a cracking regime, the Muslim Brotherhood said it will meet with the country's vice president -- days after the group said it would not negotiate until President...
Police fired at an angry crowd of 1,000 attacking the police station in the northwestern town of Kef on Saturday, killing two people and injuring 17 others, the Interior Ministry said. The official Tunisian news agency said the crowd had turned on police after the police chief "abused" a member of...
Egypt's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would begin talks Sunday with the government to try and end the country's political crisis. The announcement by the fundamentalist group came on...
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) – South Sudanese leaders said on Sunday they were considering building a new capital after their expected independence as the current hub Juba lacked infrastructure and space for new business....
SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) – Former Vice President Dick Cheney praised Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday as "a good man" and a strong friend of the United States, but said the Egyptian people will decide his fate as leader. "He's been a good man, he's...
A blogger who has become a strong voice in the Egyptian protests was wearing a Red Sox hoodie when progovernment demonstrators severely beat him Thursday in Tahrir Square. Mahmoud Salem, 29, is a 2004 graduate of Northeastern University. In his five years in Boston, the native Egyptian earned an...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Frustrated with their political elites, railing against the lack of freedom, angered at unemployment levels, dismayed at the rising cost of food, fuel and other basics, the people of sub-Saharan Africa share many of the complaints that led to the upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt,...
