Month: October 2011

Three European aid workers have been kidnapped from a refugee camp in western Algeria. Two Spanish workers and an Italian were seized overnight from the Rabuni camp near Tindouf, their foreign ministries confirmed. The camp...

By Brian Rohan and Yasmine Saleh BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Libya’s new rulers declared the country freed from Muammar Gaddafi’s 42 years of one-man rule Sunday, saying the “Pharaoh of the times”...

(Reuters) – About 130 protesters were arrested at an Occupy Chicago demonstration early on Sunday after they set up tents and refused to leave a public park after closing time, police said. The protests, which have spread...

By AOMAR OUALI Associated Press ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Gunmen kidnapped three aid workers – two Spaniards and an Italian – from a refugee camp in Algeria, injuring one of the hostages and a local guard in the...

By AHMED MOHAMED Associated Press NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — A senior military official in Mauritania’s army says soldiers killed a leader of al-Qaida’s North Africa affiliate during an air raid this week....