EGYPT

Ahmed Shafiq has been disqualified from Egypt's upcoming president elections because of his former position in the Hosni Mubarak regime.

About 40 percent of Israel’s natural gas imports come from Egypt, mostly at below-market prices.

Notice of the termination of a natural-gas purchase agreement between companies in Israel (the buyers) and companies in Egypt (the sellers) was confirmed Sunday by those on both sides of the contentious issue.

On Friday, Cairo's Tahrir Square looked much the same as it did 15 months ago as tens of thousands of protestors gathered to call for the country's rulers to step down.

On Thursday, protestors in Egypt took control of Cairo's Oct. 6 bridge, the cite where over a year ago anti-government demonstrators violently clashed with the forces of then-President Hosni Mubarak.

The Arab League called an emergency meeting on Thursday over the quickly escalating violence between Sudan and South Sudan.

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Egypt's Ministry of Justice filed suit against the UK Treasury department on Monday over £90 million ($140 million) in assets frozen during the rule of Hosni Mubarak.

Among those banned are former dictator Hosni Mubarak's spy chief Omar Suleiman, Muslim Brotherhood chief strategist Khairat el-Shater and hard-line Islamist Hazem Abu Ismail.

Ten of 23 Egyptian presidential candidates -- three of them considered front-runners -- were disqualified as participants in the coming election by the country's Supreme Presidential Election Commission on Saturday.

It's been 14 months since protests forced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign, but a number of his former ministers are still wielding real power, and they could holding onto it for the foreseeable future.

The extreme fatwa on Islamic adult breastfeeding is back again, with the Kuwaiti clerics examining and defining it in the context of husband and wife relations.

The growing conflict between Sudan and South Sudan will likely dominate the first annual Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa

Music fans are ready to rock for the next two weekends as Coachella 2012 returns to California's Mojave Desert on Friday. With a stacked lineup of 143 bands and tens of thousands of attendees expected, Coachella will be music's biggest event of the year. Check out the full lineup list plus set times along with information on how to watch a live stream of the shows on YouTube.

The Morgan Stanley investment banker accused of a hate crime in the assault of an Egyptian-born taxi driver over a fare is due back in a Connecticut court next week.

Dubai Group, part of the investment vehicle headed by Dubai's ruler, has proposed a new solution to its $10 billion debt problem, sources said, reviving talks that stalled more than two months ago.

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A court suspended the country's two-week-old constitution-drafting body Tuesday after complaints that the process to select members was too exclusive.

Retaining his top position for the second consecutive year, Saudi prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud became the richest Arab in the world, followed by the Ethiopian-Saudi Investor Mohammad Al Amoudi, according to the Forbes list of billionaires.

The candidates for Egypt's first free presidential elections in decades are set, the deadline having expired at 2 p.m. Cairo time on Sunday, and the final list is a microcosm of the current political and social divisions in post-revolution Egypt.