Monthly Archives: January 2012

Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal may not leave his post after upcoming June elections, despite media reports to the contrary.

An AFP photographer said three Somali soldiers and a government official were killed when a convoy including journalists was attacked by Shebab fighters near the frontline.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy: We'll do anything to avoid military intervention in Iran, but more sanctions are required.

Some 20 huge blasts could be heard in the city as a suicide bomber attacked a regional police office and a car bomb rocked the outside of state police headquarters after the attacker fled and was shot dead, police sources said.

The ultra-conservative Salafist Al-Nur party came second with 121 seats or 24.29 percent, and the liberal Wafd Party was third with nearly nine percent.

The raid targeted fighters from the Popular Resistance Committees who were laying explosives near the border, witnesses from the hardline faction told AFP.

The military promises to transfer power to an elected civilian president by the end of June. Before that, a constitution is to be written by a committee chosen by the Islamist-controlled parliament while the generals are still in charge.

The attacks began at 5 p.m. Friday, following afternoon prayers as workers began to leave their offices in the sprawling, dusty city.