Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award on Friday for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.

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Hosni Mubarak's lawyers said on Tuesday there is no evidence that he ordered Egyptian security forces to open fire on protesters, as they challenged prosecution calls for the ousted president to be ha

Former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, ousted in a popular revolt, on Tuesday faced prosecutors who would grill him on charges of ordering the killing of anti-regime protesters, abuse of office and c

Gulf Arab states on Tuesday urged Syria's government to immediately halt its ‘killing machine’ as a first step towards implementing an Arab peace deal.

The Gulf Cooperation Council called on Syria to

Tens of thousands of people packed a provincial town square to celebrate the first anniversary on Saturday of Tunisia's democratic revolution in the place where it began, unleashing a tide of popular

Former rebels who helped to topple Libya's late dictator Muammar Gaddafi and a human rights lawyer whose arrest sparked the uprising were handed key posts in a new government unveiled on Tuesday.

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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a deal on Wednesday to hand over his powers after 33 years in office which Saudi King Abdullah hailed as marking a "new page" in the impoverished country's h

Tens of thousands of protesters swarmed Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday to demand an end to military rule, heightening tension amid deadly clashes that threaten to derail parliamentary elections next

Bahrain on Monday admitted that ‘excessive force’ was used during a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters earlier this year that left 24 people dead, a government statement said.

"Regrettably, there