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Egypt’s Brotherhood under legal threat as bomb hits central Cairo

YoopyaSep 2, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – A judicial panel set up by Egypt’s military-backed government backed a legal challenge to the status of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday, compounding

Nigeria’s ruling party splinters, in threat to Jonathan

YoopyaSep 2, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – Seven Nigerian ruling party governors and a former presidential candidate formed a splinter group opposed to President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday, in the

Iraq protesters rail against lawmaker pensions

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Iraqi cities on Saturday to protest lawmakers’ perks despite an intense security crackdown, and

Ghana president says democracy deepened with vote dispute

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

ACCRA — Ghana President John Dramani Mahama told AFP in an interview Friday after the supreme court upheld his 2012 election victory that the emerging

India convicts youngest Delhi gang rape defendant

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian juvenile court on Saturday handed down the first conviction in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on

Romanian prince who died in jail is beatified

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Thousands have gathered on Saturday for the beatification of a Romanian prince who spent decades traveling around the world helping the

Earthquake kills 5 people in southwest China

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

BEIJING (AP) — An earthquake hit a mountainous area of southwestern China on Saturday, killing at least five people, destroying hundreds of residences and forcing

Putin says would be ‘utter nonsense’ for Assad to use chemical arms

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

(Reuters) – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday it would be “utter nonsense” for the Syrian government to use chemical weapons when it was

Sixth U.S. ship now in eastern Mediterranean ‘as precaution’

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

(Reuters) – A sixth U.S. warship is now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five U.S. destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be

UK asked N.Y. Times to destroy Snowden material

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

(Reuters) – The British government has asked the New York Times to destroy copies of documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden