The 29 Chinese workers captured in Sudan last month were released on Tuesday.
At least 70 people were killed when riots broke out between soccer fans of rival Egyptian football teams in Port Said, Egypt on Wednesday. Hundreds were injured in the riots and there is uncertainty of how many fans were killed. Take a look at the most deadly incidents in football history.
On Wednesday, 25 Chinese workers were released from 15 hours of captivity in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. They were kidnapped just yesterday by Bedouin tribesmen, who were demanding the freedom of five relatives. The Chinese workers were returned to their hotel unharmed.
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The Sudan military rescued 17 of the Chinese workers who were abducted from their camp in South Kordofan on Saturday. They were reportedly taken to a safe place, but at least 29 workers are still being held.
South Sudan has totally shut down oil output in a dispute with Sudan over export transit fees and will only restart after the two reach a deal covering border security and the disputed Abyei region, its oil minister said Sunday.
HSBC Holdings PLC is under investigation by a U.S. Senate panel in a money-laundering inquiry, the latest step in a long-running U.S. effort to halt shadowy money flows through global banks, according to people familiar with the situation and a company securities filing.
Brent crude slipped below $110 on Wednesday as recession fears, partly rekindled by stalled Greek debt talks, weighed on the outlook for demand, while threats by Iran to respond to European sanctions by shutting a vital trade route supported prices.
Fifty-seven people were killed in tribal clashes in South Sudan this week, most of them women and children. Another 53 people were wounded in the clash between Lou Nuer and Murle groups in Jonglei state, thirteen of whom needed to be airlifted to safety.
Numbering in the tens of thousands, Sidis are generally very poor and generally remain isolated from “mainstream” Indians.
The Christian presence in Egypt stretches as far back to the earliest days of Christendom.
The Khartoum stock exchange on Sunday launched a long-awaited computer trading system that will bring to an end an era of scribbling stock prices on white boards and also marks Sudan's efforts to attract more investment.
The Khartoum stock exchange on Sunday launched a long-awaited computer trading system that will bring to an end an era of scribbling stock prices on white boards and also marks Sudan's efforts to attract more investment.
Bashir is regarded as a war criminal in the West and is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges he committed genocide in connection with the mass murder of people in the Darfur.
More violence in South Sudan as two ethnic groups resume an old battle. Around 1,000 people have died in recent months and the latest assault on a town has overwhelmed the United Nations.
An Arab League advisory body called for the immediate withdrawal of Arab monitors from Syria, where eight more people were reported killed on Sunday, saying their mission was allowing Damascus to cover up unabated violence and abuses.
With a battalion of combat troops headed to South Sudan, is another ethnic conflict beginning in the war torn nation?
The newly-independent country of South Sudan has accused its erstwhile compatriots, Sudan, of killing 17 South Sudanese civilians, in airstrikes aimed at the border state of Bahr el-Ghazal on Thursday.
A team of Arab League monitors will begin its third day of observation Thursday by visiting three more Syrian cities, following the Syrian government's announcement that it had released 755 prisoners and the observers' leader saying he had seen nothing frightening during an initial trip to the violence-wracked city of Homs.
On Tuesday, Arab League peace monitors were sent to the city of Homs, the symbolic center for the ten month-long anti-government protests in Syria.
Petronas is in talks with several global oil majors including Shell and Exxon Mobil to develop petrochemical plants within its $20 billion refinery complex in southern Malaysia, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
Due to Kenya’s soaring unemployment rate, the men are easily fooled into this trap.
