Month: October 2011

By Tarek Amara and Andrew Hammond TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian election officials on Thursday confirmed the Islamist Ennahda party as winner of the North African country’s election, setting it up to form the first...

RIYADH (AFP) Saudi Arabia’s powerful interior minister, 78-year-old Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, was named the new heir to the throne in a royal decree read out on state television Thursday. Nayef — who has been...

PARIS (AFP) Moody’s said Thursday it had downgraded Egypt’s government debt rating by one notch to B1 over concerns about the country’s weak economy, financial deterioration and political instability. It also...

 SALE, Morocco (AFP) The trial of nine people accused over an April bomb attack that killed 17 in Marrakesh neared closure Thursday as a lawyer for the alleged mastermind insisted his client was innocent. Prosecutors say Adil...

More photos » TUNIS (AFP) Violent protests broke out in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid, where the uprising that ousted Zine el Abidine Ben Ali started, after election results announced Thursday, witnesses and officials said....