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  • Iran could extend nuclear talks with West

    Iran's talks with global powers on curbing its nuclear programme in exchange for an end to sanctions could be extended for another six months if no deal is reached by a July 20 deadline, a senior Iranian official has said. US and Iranian officials held talks in Geneva on Monday to tackle ways of breaking a deadlock which has raised the likelihood that.. More

  • Ukraine leader: Fighting must end this week

    Petro Poroshenko, the newly elected Ukrainian president, says fighting in the separatist east of the ex-Soviet country must stop by the end of the week. "We must end the fighting this week. For me, every day in which people die, every day in which Ukraine pays such a high price, is unacceptable," Poroshenko said in a statement published on.. More

  • Clashes in southeast Turkey after Kurds shot

    Demonstrators and police have clashed in Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey as tensions mounted a day after two Kurdish men died of gunshot wounds in earlier protests that turned violent. Police fired tear gas and water cannon on Sunday at demonstrators who threw stones and burnt barricades following the funeral of one of the victims killed on Saturday.. More

  • Sisi promises to defeat 'revloutionary' in Egypt

    Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has used his first speech as Egypt's president to promise to "defeat revolutionary ", saying that security is a priority and that he has no time for reconciliation with opponents. Hours after his inauguration on Sunday, the former army general said there would be a new era for all except those who "turn to crimes.. More

  • Egyptians protest as Sisi assumes presidency

    Supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi staged a series of limited protests in a number of Egyptian provinces on Sunday to coincide with the swearing-in ceremony of new President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi. The protesters raised Morsi photos and chanted slogans demanding his return to the presidency. Morsi's backers organized a series of human chains.. More

  • Sisi takes power in Egypt

    The former army chief took the oath of office at the Constitutional Court in a suburb south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, the same venue where Mohamed Morsi, the president who he deposed, was sworn in two years ago. Sisi is the fifth Egyptian president to come from the army's ranks. The ceremony also marked the first time one president handed power.. More

  • Crimean Tatars face 'second deportation'

    Russian actions are forcing Crimean Tatars to leave the annexed peninsula, Ukraine’s delegate to the U.N. has claimed. Speaking in Geneva on Friday, Yuri Klymenko said his country would bring up the issue of the historical deportation of Crimean Tatars at the forthcoming 26th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in June. "We commemorate.. More

  • Egypt sentences 10 Brotherhood leaders to death

    An Egyptian court referred ten Muslim Brotherhood leaders charged with ‘inciting violence’ to Egypt's grand mufti, the country's highest religious authority, to consider possible death sentences against them. The ten are part of a group of 48 defendants, including Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie, who are standing trial on charges.. More

  • Ukraine says 15 rebels killed in border clash

    Fifteen pro-Russian rebels have been killed in clashes with government troops at a border crossing with Russia, according to an aide to the Ukrainian interior minister. Speaking on a television program late on Thursday, Anton Herashchenko said Ukrainian border guards clashed earlier in the day with armed men who came from Russia in trucks and an infantry.. More

  • Libya's intelligence chief resigns

    Libyan intelligence chief Salem al-Hassi has submitted his resignation to parliament, a lawmaker said Thursday. Al-Hassi tendered his resignation in protest against the deteriorating security situation in the country and the incompletion of institution-building process, Abdel-Moneim al-Yasir, member of the parliament’s national security committee,.. More

  • New Israeli settlement expansion condemned

    Israel's government has announced plans for 3,300 new settler homes, less than a week after a Palestinian government of national consensus was unveiled. Israel announced two plans on Thursday - one of 1,800 homes and a second for 1,500 homes. Many will be built in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel's housing minister, Uri Ariel, called.. More

  • Bomber targets renegade Libyan general

    Libyan renegade general Khalifa Haftar said he had been briefly treated in hospital after suffering minor injuries in an assassination attempt. "I am well," he told Libya's Al Oula television station. "There will be a strong response." A suicide bomber earlier on Wednesday blew up a jeep loaded with explosive near Haftar's base.. More

  • Egypt's Morsi calls for maintaining 'revolution'

    Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi has called on what he described "revolutionaries" to close ranks and maintain their peaceful revolution. In a message published on his official Facebook page on Wednesday, Morsi said that "I have committed mistakes, but I have never betrayed trust". Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president,.. More

  • Obama and Putin spar over Ukraine violence

    US President Barack Obama has condemned what he called Russia's "dark tactics" and "bullying" in Ukraine, prompting President Vladimir Putin to hit back at American "aggression," as diplomatic wrangling between the two countries escalated. Obama met Ukraine's president-elect Petro Poroshenko in the Polish capital of Warsaw.. More

  • Assad 're-elected' in wartime election

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has won a 'landslide victory' in presidential poll securing 88.7 percent of the vote, parliament speaker Mohammad al-Laham has said. The two other candidates, Hassan al-Nouri and Maher Hajjar, won 4.3 percent and 3.2 percent respectively. The 'victory; gives Assad a third seven-year term in office. The head of the.. More