A British police watchdog group said it will meet Sunday with the family of a man whose death allegedly at the hands of officers led to riots in north London. Demonstrators on Saturday night burned police cars, a bus and buildings to protest the death of Mark Duggan. They pelted officers with bottles and bricks [...]
Egypt’s benchmark stock index gained the most in almost 2 weeks after the country’s public prosecutor detained Ex-President Hosni Mubarak and his sons while they are being investigated for alleged corruption. Talaat Moustafa Group (TMGH) Holding, the country’s largest publicly traded real-estate developer, gained 1.9%. Telecom Egypt, the biggest fixed-line telephone company in the Middle [...]
Arriving at today’s meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels, UK Foreign Minister William Hague told journalists he has called Colonel Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi, in Libya on Sunday to demand an end to the violence against protestors. Saif al-Islam, a son of Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi, appeared on Libyan state television late last [...]
Col Muammar Gaddafi’s regime is under pressure amid unprecedented protests in the Libyan capital and defections by senior diplomats. Protesters out on the streets of Tripoli late on Sunday were met by security forces using live ammunition and tear gas. Benghazi, the country’s second city, now appears to be largely under the control of protesters. [...]
In opposing rallies that were peaceful and spirited, an estimated 60,000 demonstrators surrounded the Wisconsin Capitol on Saturday, the largest crowd yet in a weeklong clash that has become the center of a broader ideological battle over union rights and taxes. State workers and pro-labor activists have filled the streets of downtown Madison to oppose [...]