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 Egypt's Appeals court has set April 13 as the date for a retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister and aides in the case of ordering the killing of protesters, MENA state news agency reported on Sunday.
Mubarak is in a military hospital. In January a Cairo court granted him the retrial after he was jailed for life over the killing of protesters by security forces trying to q ... |
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 A Qatari appeals court on Monday reduced to 15 years the prison sentence handed to a poet accused of incitement against the regime after a lower court had jailed him for life, his lawyer said.
“My client was sentenced today to 15 years in prison,” Mohammed Nejib al-Naimi told AFP, adding that the case will now be taken to the court of cassation for the final decision.
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 Around 150 Kurdish women in the war-wracked northern Syrian province of Aleppo have set up a fighting battalion, a monitoring group said on Saturday.
“The Kurdish popular committees have set up the first women’s battalion, comprising some 150 women fighters. The battalion is named the Martyr Rokan Battalion,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
“While women are no ... |
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 Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali has announced his resignation at a news conference in Tunis.
"I promised if my initiative did not succeed I would resign as head of the government and this is what I am doing following my meeting with the president," Jebali said at the presidential palace.
"Today there is a great disappointment among the people and we must regain their trust and ... |
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 With the situation in Syria continually deteriorating, U.S. officials could re-open the debate on whether to provide weapons to select members of the opposition, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama, reluctant to be drawn into a proxy war, has previously rebuffed those in his administration who want to arm the opposition. There is also concern that weapons could be used ... |
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Italian police have arrested the chief executive of the state-controlled defence group Finmeccanica SpA in a corruption investigation centred on the sale of helicopters to the Indian government, a judicial source has said.
Prosecutors in Busto Arsizio ordered the arrest on Tuesday of Giuseppe Orsi for alleged bribes paid to secure the sale of 12 executive aircraft manufactured by AgustWestland, Fi ... |
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 Israel is breaking its own rules of engagement by using deadly force to disperse unarmed Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem reported on Monday.
Israeli forces have killed 56 people since 2005 in clashes with rock-throwing Palestinians, said B’Tselem, which accused the military of having “extensively and systematically violated&rdqu ... |
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 The Arab world takes center stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday with Jordan’s King Abdullah II set to address global political and business leaders.
The premiers of Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia and the Palestinian Territories will discuss transformations in Arab countries, while U.S. Senator John McCain is taking part in a panel on the future of conflict-torn Syria.
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 Algeria warned other nations to prepare Monday for a higher body count from a hostage bloodbath at a gas plant that was overrun in what France called an “act of war” by Islamist militants.
Algerian troops on Sunday reportedly found the bodies of 25 hostages and captured five kidnappers at the In Amenas gas plant, deep in the Sahara desert, a day after storming the remaining part of the ... |
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 An Egyptian court on Saturday dropped charges against 379 people involved in clashes against the police in 2011, following a decree by President Mohamed Mursi granting them amnesty, the official MENA news agency said.
The 379 had been accused of injuring policemen during November 2011 clashes on Mohammed Mahmoud Street, near Cairo's iconic Tahrir Square, that left dozens dead.
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