South Sudan’s army has completed its withdrawal from Sudan’s main Heglig oil field, the military said Sunday, but condemned the north for bombing the area. Juba seized the flashpoint oil hub on April 10, claiming that Khartoum was using
AlexBank, one of Egypt’s biggest commercial banks, says it expects to launch Islamic financial services next April. But the country’s political divisions mean the regulatory environment in which the bank will operate is not clear. Last year’s ouste
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أعلن السودان أن منطقة هجليج النفطية بولاية جنوب كردفان تعرضت لدمار كبير أثناء سيطرة الجيش الشعبي عليها. كما وضعت الخرطوم أربعة شروط لاستئنا
بدأ اليوم الأحد التصويت بالانتخابات الرئاسية الفرنسية التي يتنافس فيها عشرة مرشحين أبرزهم الرئيس المنتهية ولايته نيكولا ساركوزي، ومرشح ال
Damascus suburb reportedly stormed by government forces as UN team monitoring ceasefire visits flashpoint towns.
A Saudi hacker known just as “Cyber Terrorist” died in Riyadh after suffering an apparent acute asthma attack caused by the dust storm that hit the Saudi capital last week. The 28-year-old hacker was known for penetrating the most well protected si
Witnesses and media reports say a Muslim mob has set ablaze a Catholic church frequented by Southern Sudanese in the capital Khartoum. The church in Khartoum’s Al-Jiraif district was built on a disputed plot of land but the Saturday night
Three Tunisian men from the Southern town of Ben Guerdane were reportedly killed by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, local newspaper Attounissiya reported on Saturday. The three victims were Bolababa Boklech, Walid Hilal, and Mohamed el-
The United Arab Emirates has implied that it is prepared to take its spat with Iran over three disputed islands to the U.N.’s International Court of Justice, if the Islamic Republic does not agree to diplomatic negotiations. “The UAE stands ready to
An Israeli court has ordered a group of Jewish settlers to leave a house in the southern West Bank city of Hebron after ruling that their claim to ownership was false, court documents showed. In a hearing at Jerusalem District Court, Judge