Tweet Athens, Greece (DNN) — Lawmakers in Greece voted early Monday to approve another round of austerity measures, sought in return for a new eurozone bailout of the debt-stricken country, while protests raged in the streets. As lawmakers debated, police turned tear gas and stun grenades on demonstrators outside Greece’s Parliament. Several buildings, including a [...]
Tweet Tripoli, Libya (DNN) — One of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s surviving sons has had his phone cut off and been placed under house arrest in Niger after warning of a revolt against Libya’s new government, authorities in Tripoli said Sunday. Saadi Gadhafi has been in Niger since September, following the collapse of his [...]
Tweet London (DNN) — Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Libya’s deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi, could go on trial “within weeks or months,” the country’s interior minister said Sunday. The investigations into the death of Moammar Gadhafi after his capture last year could also be completed soon, Fawzy Abdilal said. Saif al-Islam’s case will be [...]
Tweet Cairo (DNN) — Demonstrators clashed with police outside the Interior Ministry in Cairo on Sunday as anger mounts over a deadly stampede at a soccer match that killed dozens last week. Protesters outside the ministry threw rocks at police, who responded with tear gas. Fires erupted at a nearby shopping center while more than [...]
Tweet Cairo (DNN) — Egyptian reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei on Saturday ended his bid for president after criticizing the interim military government for its failure to bring about “a real democratic system.” The Nobel laureate and former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency accused the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of mismanaging [...]
Tweet Damascus, Syria (DNN) — As violence erupted in Homs, Syria’s president turned up at a boisterous pro-government rally in Damascus Wednesday, whipping up his followers and again underscoring his view that the months of popular unrest in his nation are the result of a “conspiracy.” “We will triumph over this conspiracy,” Bashar al-Assad told [...]
Tweet Tehran, Iran (DNN) — A nuclear scientist was killed in a blast in Tehran on Wednesday morning, an Iranian news agency reported, in the latest in a string of attacks that Iran has blamed on Israel. A motorcyclist placed a magnetic bomb under Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan’s Peugeot 405, the state-run IRNA news agency said. [...]
Tweet Washington (DNN) — Venezuela’s consul general in Miami has been declared to be persona non grata and must leave the United States, a State Department spokesman said Sunday. Spokesman William Ostick declined to comment on specific details behind the decision to expel Livia Acosta Noguera, who has headed Venezuela’s consulate in Miami since March [...]
Tweet Kabul, Afghanistan (DNN) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai appeared to endorse talks between the United States and the Taliban that could lead to the opening of a Taliban liaison office in Qatar. Karzai’s announcement Wednesday followed news a day earlier from the Taliban that it tentatively agreed to open an office in Qatar’s capital [...]
Tweet Cairo (DNN) — Prosecutors in the trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak formally requested a penalty of death by hanging for Mubarak and several of his fellow defendants Thursday, an attorney at the court said. Mubarak is accused of ordering protesters killed during the country’s uprising last year, and of corruption. He denies [...]
