Month: June 2012

AFP Libya political campaign to start TRIPOLI (AFP) Political campaigning for a national assembly begins on Monday, a milestone in Libya’s troubled path to democratic elections after four decades of dictatorship under late...

New York Times OP-ED First Tahrir Square, Then the Classroom Manu Brabo/Associated Press Egyptians rallied in Alexandria, the country’s second-largest city, on Friday, ahead of the presidential runoff election this weekend. By...

by Samer al-Atrush – CAIRO (AFP) Egyptians voted on Saturday in a run-off presidential election pitting an Islamist against Hosni Mubarak’s last premier as the military rulers entered a showdown with the Islamists by...

AFP Libya declares military zone in west TRIPOLI (AFP) Libyan authorities on Saturday declared warring mountain towns in the west of the country a “military zone” and called for an immediate ceasefire. Libyan...