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Qatar will hold its first legislative election in two years, Qatar News Agency reported, citing a statement by the ruling emir.

President Barack Obama's official Facebook page has been targeted by a sustained string of Facebook comments comparing him to oppressive Arab leaders and questioning the handling of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

The magazine will be temporarily renamed ‘Sharia Hebdo,’ for its next weekly issue.

A warrant has been issued by Tunisia, summoning the widow of deceased Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat over a corruption scandal, the state news agency reported Monday.

North Koreans in Libya are in a trapped in a diplomatic limbo. Their brethren in Tunisia and Egypt have also been prohibited from returning home.

Tunisia's first democratic elections were marred by violent protests in the city of Sidi Bouzid on Thursday night and into Friday.

The leader of the Islamist party which won Tunisia's first free election appealed for calm in the town where the Arab Spring began, accusing forces linked to the ousted president of fanning violence there.

Following the death of Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan bin Abdelaziz Al Saud on Saturday, King Abdullah has named his half-brother Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud the country's Crown Prince.

Claiming election fraud, nearly 100 Tunisians protested Tuesday outside the headquarters of the independent electoral body, saying the country's first-ever elections have been marred.

The Islamist Ennahda party was officially declared the winner of Tunisia's election Thursday, setting it up to form the first Islamist-led government in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings.

Scott Olsen, a former U.S. Marine who completed two tours in Iraq, is in critical condition on Thursday, after being hit in the face by a police projectile during an Occupy Oakland protest Tuesday night. Will his injuries galvanize the Occupy movement?

Tunisia's moderate Islamist party said on Wednesday it would put forward one of its officials for the prime minister's job, after it scored a resounding victory in the first election after the Arab Spring uprisings.

After becoming the first Arab Spring country to revolt against the establishment and overthrow a dictator, Tunisia has yet again set an example for emerging Middle East democracies by holding an election that, according to international observers, have been free and fair.

The Islamist Ennahda party, which has won Tunisia's first free election, said on Wednesday it would not impose restrictions on how foreign tourists dress on beaches and would not impose Islamic banking rules, according to state media.

Tunisian Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi is seen by many secularists as a dangerous radical, but for some conservative clerics who see themselves as the benchmark of orthodox Islam -- he is so liberal that they call him an unbeliever.

The Islamist leader whose party is now Tunisia's most powerful political force met stock market executives on Wednesday to send the message that the government ushered in by the Arab Spring revolt will be business friendly.

Tunisia's moderate Islamist party on Tuesday claimed a thumping victory in the country's first election, sending a message to the region that once-banned Islamists are challenging for power after the Arab Spring.

With ongoing turmoil in Africa and the Middle East, illegal immigration is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge in Europe.

Ennahda has vowed it will not establish an Islamic state, but rather a secular, multi-party democracy.

Moderate Islamists claimed victory Monday in Tunisia's first democratic election, sending a message to other states in the region that long-sidelined Muslim parties are challenging for power after the Arab Spring.

The Arab Spring of pro-democracy uprisings features prominently -- both directly and more subtly -- in the selections at the third annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival, kicking off in the Qatari capital this week.