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The chief of the junta in Mali had promised to restore civilian rule and call new elections, but has so far not done so.

Mali's junta leader promised to reinstate the constitution from Sunday, hours before a deadline set by West African neighbors to start handing over power, and as rebels encircled the ancient trading post of Timbuktu.

Syria says the year-long revolt to topple President Bashar al-Assad is now over, but it will keep its forces in cities to maintain security until it is safe to withdraw in keeping with a U.N.-backed peace deal.

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Dubai's top security official accused supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday of using social media to stir up opposition to the Gulf's ruling elite.

Annan has already received support for the plan from Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and foreign minister Sergey Lavrov

Syria fits the bill of a nation that has made most of its friends by virtue of having common enemies. There is probably no other way to explain how this fiercely secular Arab nation has been commanding tremendous support from the religious fanatics that routinely make Iranian governments.

Tuareg rebels in northern Mali, flush with arms and fighters from the Libyan revolution, pushed south Friday morning to occupy positions vacated by government forces as mutinous soldiers in the capital sought to complete a coup by arresting the president, military sources said.

Much of the Algerian public remains burdened by poverty, high unemployment, poor public services and entrenched government corruption.

According to Libya's Vice Premier, Mustafa Abushagur, and a government spokesman, Mauritanian has agreed to hand over Gaddafi's former intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi to Libya.

The French president’s 2010 campaign seems reminiscent of the British election in 1979, when Conservative Margaret Thatcher fought to become the UK’s first Prime Minister.

Amnesty International has charged NATO with failing to investigate the deaths of scores of Libyan civilians who did not directly participate in hostilities during the Libyan uprising last year.

Senussi, who has been on the run since the dictator's overthrow last year, is likely to become the subject of a three-way tug-of -war between Tripoli, France and the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague who also want to put him on trial in Europe.

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born British author of the controversial novel The Satanic Verses, has drawn an unfavorable comparison between Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and Libya's slain dictator Moammar Gadhafi, implying that Khan is a dictator in waiting.

Egypt's Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III passed away today, but you'd be forgiven for never having heard of him.

Libya is also seeking his extradition.

Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Pakistanis to revolt against their government, treading the path of Arab Spring that rocked several Middle Eastern nations.

Cardiologist Dr Fawaz Akhras, whose glamorous London-born daughter Asma married Assad in 2000, has also been caught advising the regime on how to respond to graphic images such as the torture of children by Syrian government forces.

Thousands of Syrians have fled into Turkey, where Erdogan has recommended the creation of “safe zones” along the border.

President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the possibility of releasing emergency oil reserves during a meeting Wednesday, two sources familiar with the talks said.

The West clashed with Russia at the United Nations Security Council over Syria Monday, as activists and the Damascus government traded blame for a massacre of civilians in the city of Homs.