Cairo sees 4th day of police, youth clashesPolice fired teargas at dozens of stone-throwing protesters in Cairo on Sunday in a fourth day of street clashes that have killed at least 42 people and compounded the challenges facing President Mohamed Mursi. In the worst violen More… |
Mursi to meet judges over power grabEgyptian President Mohamed Mursi will meet senior judges on Monday to try to ease a crisis over his seizure of new powers which has set off violent protests reminiscent of last year's revolution which brought him to power. Egypt' More… |
Over 100 injured in Egypt clashesThousands of opponents and supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi clashed in Cairo on Friday leaving 110 people injured in the first street violence between rival factions since the Islamist leader took office. Islamists a More… |
Syria, Jordan army clash on borderFighting broke out between Jordanian and Syrian forces in a border region between the two countries overnight, but a Jordanian source said on Saturday no one on Jordan's side appeared to have been killed. A Syrian opposition activis More… |
23 soldiers killed in Syria clashesSyrian rebels killed 23 government soldiers on Monday, activists said, as efforts to find a viable political alternative to Bashar al-Assad faltered when an opposition group said it would boycott Arab-backed talks to unite its splintered ranks. More… |
Syrian forces, rebels in first clash after truceSyrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad fought rebels near the border with Turkey on Friday, activists said, the first clash since a UN-brokered ceasefire came into effect a day earlier. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Hu More… |
Cairo protesters, police in clash againProtesters demanding a swift presidential election and an early handover of power by the army hurled rocks at police guarding the Egyptian interior ministry on Sunday and were forced back with volleys of tear gas. It was the fourth day of More… |
Army blamed after Egypt soccer clash kills 74Egypt's soccer fans and politicians turned on the ruling army for failing to prevent the deadly clash during a soccer match, in which 74 people were killed last night. At least 1,000 people were injured in the violence on Wednesday whe More… |
73 KILLED IN EGYPT SOCCER CLASHSeventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, in what a deputy minister called the biggest disaster in the nation's soccer history. Violence at foo More… |
Atleast 50 killed in Nigeria ethnic clashesClashes between rival ethnic groups in eastern Nigeria's Ebonyi state on Saturday killed at least 50 people, the state government spokesman said, and police said mobile units had been sent to the state to quell the violence. The clashes er More… |








