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Ahmad Shafiq … GCC-backed bet for Egyptian presidency
AHMAD Mohamed Shafiq, born November 1941, is a former senior commander in the Egyptian Air Force and politician who served as prime minister of Egypt from January 2011 to March 2011.
Rental power plants declared unlawful
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s top court Friday declared all the country’s rental power plants unlawful and ordered legal
Chavez threatens banks, firms backing opposition
CARACAS — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to nationalize banks and private companies that support the
Japan to shootdown NK rocket
TOKYO — Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s cabinet Friday gave the green light to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it
Saturday, 31 - March 2012
OSLO — Norwegian social workers, embroiled in an international row after removing two Indian children from their parents, said Friday they had decided
Saturday, 31 - March 2012
CAIRO — Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-led parliament has begun drawing up a no-confidence motion against the military-appointed government, further escalating
Saturday, 31 - March 2012
ISTANBUL — Turkey will reduce the amount of oil it buys from Iran by around 10 percent, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said Friday, a week after Washington
Saturday, 31 - March 2012
WASHINGTON — The United States will give $120 million in emergency aid for western Africa’s drought-hit Sahel region in hope of preventing severe hunger,
Saturday, 31 - March 2012
BEIRUT — Syrian artillery hit parts of Homs city and at least 10 people were killed in clashes around the country on Friday, opposition activists said,
Saturday, 31 - March 2012
A Palestinian is arrested by Israeli policemen during a demonstration by hundreds
