Tunisia Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for helping build democracy in a country that is recognized as the birthplace…
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Finland On Friday, Finland adjusted its forecast for the number of expected asylum-seekers to reach the country in 2015 from 30,000 to 50,000. The change…
Egypt President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi pardoned 100 prisoners on Thursday, in light of the major Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. Among the pardoned individuals were two…
Egypt Ministers of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s cabinet, led by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab, submitted their resignation to the president on Saturday. Sisi ordered…
Egypt Six soldiers, including four American peacekeepers, were wounded in two explosions caused by improvised explosive devices in northeast Sinai on Thursday. Pentagon official Captain…
Guatemala Tens of thousands of Guatemalans protested in Guatemala City on Thursday, demanding the resignation of President Otto Perez, who has been accused of involvement…
United States The White House disclosed on Thursday that American development expert Warren Weinstein and Italian aid worker Giovanni Lo Porto were killed in a…
Iraq During his visit to Washington D.C., Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Saudi Arabia is improperly interfering in Yemen, where it has launched an…
United States & Cuba US Secretary of State, John Kerry, met with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in Panama City on Thursday in what was…
Kenya At least 147 people were killed at Garissa University in northeastern Kenya on Thursday by al-Shabab militants. Although 104 people were injured and 19…