20111219
Press TV
Egyptian protesters have called on the ruling military junta to use its heavy hand against the Israeli regime rather than its own people as the junta's forces intensify their brutal crackdown on protesters.

20111219
Press TV
Egyptian military police have stormed a makeshift hospital near Cairo's Liberation Square, burning medical supplies and detaining doctors for helping protesters.

20111219
Press TV
Egypt's Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri has accused protesters of being counter-revolutionaries as police once again attack demonstrators in Cairo.

20111219
Reuters
(Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council lifted sanctions on Libya's central bank and a subsidiary on Friday, clearing the way for tens of billions of dollars they hold overseas to be unfrozen to ease an acute cash crisis.

20111219
Reuters
(Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned excessive use of force by Egypt's security forces as hundreds of demonstrators demanding an end to military rule clashed with police in Cairo for a fourth day.

20111219
Reuters
(Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday she was "deeply concerned" about continuing violence in Egypt.

20111219
Reuters
(Reuters) - A journalist with a Somali television channel was shot dead in the capital Sunday by a man wearing a government soldier's uniform, witnesses said.

20111219
Reuters
(Reuters) - Congo's top opposition figure Sunday urged the armed forces to obey him after losing elections he said were fraudulent and added he would offer a "great prize" to anyone who captured President Joseph Kabila.

20111219
Reuters
(Reuters) - Egypt's two leading Islamist parties said on Sunday their separate party lists secured about three-quarters of votes cast in the second round of a parliamentary election, extending their lead in the three-stage vote.

20111219
Press TV
Israeli lawyer Nick Kaufman will defend the son of slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi at the International Criminal Court (ICC).

20111219
Press TV
Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Ashour Bin Khayal has said his country will not allow the Israeli regime to open an embassy in the capital Tripoli.

20111218
Reuters
(Reuters) - Three people were killed as troops fought daylong battles with protesters, showing the tensions seething in Egypt nine months after Hosni Mubarak's fall, even in the midst of polls meant to herald a promised transfer to civilian rule.

20111218
Reuters
(Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's Supreme Court confirmed the incumbent Joseph Kabila on Friday as the winner of a disputed November 28 presidential election, rejecting opposition demands for the vote to be annulled over fraud allegations.

20111218
Reuters
(Reuters) - Soldiers baton-charged demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday a day after street clashes killed eight people and wounded more than 300, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember.

20111218
Reuters
(Reuters) - Congo's opposition plans to turn the sprawling capital Kinshasa and other cities across the country into "ghost towns" in a show of force after the country's highest court confirmed President Joseph Kabila as winner of a disputed November 28 election.

20111218
Reuters
(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people packed a provincial town square to celebrate the first anniversary on Saturday of Tunisia's democratic revolution in the place where it began, unleashing a tide of popular revolt that has transformed the Arab world.

20111218
Reuters
(Reuters) - U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta told Libya's leaders on Saturday they faced a long, hard road in moving on from 42 years of one-man rule and uniting rival militias that still hold the streets in the oil-producing North African state.

20111218
Reuters
(Reuters) - Nigerian authorities raided a bomb making factory Saturday belonging to suspected members of an Islamist sect in the northeast, the military said, after gun and bomb attacks across northern Nigeria over four days killed at least seven people.

20111218
Reuters
(Reuters) - Soldiers beat demonstrators with batons in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday in a second day of clashes that have killed 10 people and wounded hundreds, marring the first free election most Egyptians can remember.

20111218
Reuters
(Reuters) - Military police battled demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square Sunday, the third day of clashes that have killed 10 people and injured hundreds, casting a shadow over the first free election most Egyptians can remember.