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United Nations officials forced free-speech advocates to take down a poster over its reference to China's Web restrictions at an Internet conference focused on freedom, saying Monday that it violated a ban on posters at events organized by the world body.
China's premier on Sunday pledged $10 billion in new low interest loans to African nations over three years, offering the beleaguered continent sorely needed cash while dismissing criticism that Beijing's motives in Africa are far from altruistic.
It goes well beyond the average family squabble.
Tougher sanctions against Iran that the U.S. and its allies are considering to pressure it over its nuclear program might only strengthen its hard-line president and the Revolutionary Guard, boosting the elite force's economic and political muscle, experts warn.
Egypt will offer two licenses to provide telecommunications services for upscale suburbs outside the capital, including fixed lines, a government official said Wednesday, in a move expected to bring in $1 billion worth of investments over the next five years.
A Saudi prince wants to buy half of the debt-saddled football club Liverpool, in a deal worth up to $560 million that would mark the latest buy-in by Gulf investors in an English Premier League team.
Saudi Arabia inaugurated on Wednesday its first-ever fully integrated coed university, and its ruler declared the institution will be a "beacon of tolerance" in a world attacked by extremists.
The indignation and outrage in the U.S. and Britain over Libya's warm welcome home for the Lockerbie bomber may just be a speedbump in the North African nation's drive for political and business rapprochement with the West.
Libya kept the Lockerbie bomber out of sight Friday, apparently wary of hurting its improving ties with the West, as Britain's foreign secretary denounced his warm homecoming and warned that the world's view of Tripoli will be damaged if it trumpets his release.
Britain's leaders faced new pressure Saturday to explain any role they might have had in the release of the Lockerbie bomber after Libya's leader Moammar Gadhafi credited senior officials and members of the royal family for influencing the decision.
Scotland's government defended itself Sunday against unrelenting criticism from the U.S. over the decision to free the Pan Am Flight 103 bomber on compassionate grounds.
Just in time for galas marking 40 years since the country's revolution, Libyans are anticipating another cause for celebration — the possible return home of the Lockerbie bomber, a man they see as an innocent victim of the West's campaign to turn their country into an international pariah.
The Dubai developer behind the world's tallest building plans to merge with three rivals owned by the sheikdom's ruler, in a consolidation aimed at better coping with a global meltdown fueled weakness in the one-time Arab boomtown's real estate sector.
A Saudi conglomerate whose billionaire chairman is under the spotlight by the kingdom's banking authorities had its credit rating knocked down several notches to junk status by a leading debt rating firm on Tuesday.
OPEC is unlikely to cut output at its upcoming meeting, Saudi Arabia's oil minister said in comments published Tuesday, as indications mounted that the oil producing bloc would resist a temptation to tighten the taps despite wanting higher crude prices.
Egypt's government was hoping to look strong and proactive in the swine flu scare with its decision to slaughter all the country's pigs, after taking heavy criticism at home for poor planning and corruption in past crises.
OPEC and Asian energy officials called Sunday for new oil investments and tougher measures to combat speculation in crude markets that some have argued helped fuel last year's oil price spike.
The world's worst economic recession in about six decades is hammering the nations of the Middle East, with falling commodity prices severely straining economies and wealthy oil producers digging deep into savings to sustain spending.
The chief executive of Orascom Telecom said Monday he expects France Telecom to launch a tender offer for Mobinil, Egypt's top mobile phone service provider.
Flash back to December 17 when OPEC met in Algeria and announced a record 2.2 million barrel per day production cut. The global economy was in shambles, oil demand was in free fall, the price per barrel had just dipped into the $30s and oil-producing states were complaining about plummeting oil prices.
He has stoked unrest between African nations but now heads the African Union and is pledging to tackle the Darfur crisis. Recently he urged Arab leaders allow their citizens to travel to the Gaza Strip to fight Israel, but later he said the world's Jews deserve their own homeland — albeit in a state shared with Palestinians called "Isratine."
Abu Essam's footsteps echo loudly as he walks through the narrow alleys of Damascus' old city. Around him in 1930s Syria, tall stone buildings block the scorching sun.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's comment that the country may nationalize its oil sector has "raised some eyebrows" among international oil firms, but there has been little indication that such action is imminent, a U.S. diplomat in the North African nation said Tuesday.
Call it, if you will, classic Moammar Gadhafi.
While benefiting global economic recovery efforts, current low oil prices are not reflective of true supply-demand fundamentals, Saudi Arabia's oil minister said Wednesday, stressing that OPEC was committed to bringing stability to the market.
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