The general commanding Nato’s mission in Libya has said the Gaddafi regime continues to be a threat. Canadian Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard said in a conference call with reporters that forces loyal to Gaddafi “are still dangerous, orders continue to be given and violence against the population continues”. Lt Gen Bouchard said that the Nato [...]
An official in Niger’s capital of Niamey says Muammar Gaddafi’s security chief has entered the capital in a convoy. Customs official Harouna Ide says Mansour Dao was at the head of the convoy when it entered the city early Tuesday. He says other Libyan convoys are south of Agadez, a town in central Niger, a [...]
Report by BBC LATEST NEWS STAFF: WASHINGTON — With Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi showing no signs, so far, of yielding to Western demands, diplomats from the United States, Britain and France have adopted a new tactic in recent days: offering the besieged leader the opportunity to remain in Libya if he dissolves the government and steps [...]
Egypt’s ex-President Hosni Mubarak is weak and refusing solid food, according to the country’s official news agency. He is due to stand trial in a week, accused of corruption and ordering the killing of protesters. The head of the hospital where Mr Mubarak is detained in Sharm al-Sheikh said he was depressed, has lost weight, [...]
Seventy-eight people were killed when a Moroccan military aircraft crashed into a mountain in the south of the country, the army says. The army said three other people were severely wounded in the crash, in what is thought to be one of Morocco’s deadliest air disasters in years. The C-130 Hercules aircraft crashed near Guelmim, [...]
DAMASCUS: Syria’s government, under massive pressure to reform or quit, has adopted a draft law allowing for new political parties to operate alongside the ruling Baath party. However, the crackdown on dissent forges on, with security forces deploying in their hundreds in the Damascus neighbourhood of Rukneddin on Monday to carry out searches and arrests [...]
DAMASCUS: Syrian security forces killed at least eight civilians on Friday as more than 1.2 million protesters swarmed cities in the north and east to protest against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, activists said. Activists had called for Friday’s demonstrations on Facebook group The Syrian Revolution 2011, a driving force behind more than four months of [...]
ISTANBUL: Kurdish rebels shot dead three Turkish soldiers in the south eastern province of Mardin, broadcaster CNN Turk said on Sunday. The deaths come at a time of heightened tesnion between Turkey’s armed forces and Kurdish rebels in Turkey’s southeast.BBCLATESTNEWS.com
AMMAN: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad replaced the governor of the eastern tribal province of Deir al-Zor on Sunday, two days after the biggest protests demanding an end to Assad’s rule in the oil producing region. Hussein Arnos, a civilian, was transferred to govern the small province of Qunaitera west of Damascus, on the border with [...]
(BBCLATESTNEWS) — Soccer’s global governing body on Saturday banned for life a man for what they called his actions, months earlier, to use bribes to be elected as its top executive. The ethics committee for FIFA announced it was banning Mohamed bin Hammam from “taking part in any kind of football-related activity” nationally or internationally [...]
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