March 6, 2011
Fighting Erupts on Ivory Coast Western Border
Heavy fighting is reported in western Ivory Coast between supporters of the country's two rival presidents. Reports from the area Sunday said forces loyal to incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo are clashing with former rebels who back rival leader…
March 6, 2011
Egypt Gets New Foreign and Interior Ministers, Removes Mubarak Holdovers
Egypt has appointed a new foreign minister and interior minister following demands by reformers for a purge of Cabinet officials named by ousted President Hosni Mubarak. Egypt's state news agency says Nabil Elaraby, a former judge at the…
March 3, 2011
Libya: Spending oil money across the globe
In the span of a few years, Libya's financial tendrils have reached across oceans, across…
March 3, 2011
US Supreme Court allows anti-gay funeral protests
The US Supreme Court has ruled an anti-gay church has the right to picket military funerals under the US constitution's free speech protections. The court ruled 8-1 for the Westboro Baptist Church, throwing out an earlier $5m (£3m) judgement…
March 3, 2011
Ivory Coast: Power and water cut to pro-Ouattara north
Electricity and water have been cut to northern Ivory Coast - a region traditionally opposed to incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, the UN says. A UN official said the power company had said the supplies appears to have been cut for political…
March 3, 2011
Taliban: Pakistani minister killed over stance on blasphemy law
A Pakistani government minister who had said he was getting death threats because of his opposition to a controversial blasphemy law was shot to death Wednesday. Shahbaz Bhatti was the only Christian member of the Cabinet in Pakistan, where 95…
March 3, 2011
22 new charges for U.S. WikiLeaks suspect
The U.S. Army Wednesday notified Pfc. Bradley Manning, a prime suspect in the WikiLeaks case, that he now faces 22 more charges in connection with allegedly downloading secret information from computers in Iraq. The most serious new charge…
March 2, 2011
More Than 140,000 People Flee Libya
The United Nations refugee agency says over the past 10…
March 2, 2011
Yemeni Cleric Joins Protests, Calls for Islamic Rule
An influential cleric and former mentor of Osama bin Laden has joined tens of thousands of Yemeni opposition activists and called for the government's replacement with an Islamic state. Sheik Abdul Majid al-Zindani Tuesday praised the…
March 2, 2011
US Lawmakers Press Obama on Trade Agreements
Sixty-seven Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have told President Barack Obama they want to work with him to approve long-delayed trade deals with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. In a letter to the president, the legislators…