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MarketWatch
| 2 years ago
Increased investor focus on the Middle East and North Africa will be positive, with eventual winners and losers determined by the level of genuine change in each country...Most exchanges saw only a short-lived rally earlier this week after news of...
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Qatar English Daily
| 2 years ago
A former Tunisian interior minister sparked protests yesterday by warning that loyalists of the ousted president would mount a coup if Islamists took power in an election on July 23. The overthrow of President Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali in January has...
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The Scotsman
| 2 years ago
Egypt's hated former police minister Published Date: 06 May 2011 Egypt's reviled former interior minister was jailed for 12 years yesterday, the first member of Hosni Mubarak's cabinet to be sentenced. Habib al-Adli, hated for the brutality of his...
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Epoch Times
| 2 years ago
His trial was the first among top officials under Mubarak's three-decade-long rule...State-run Ahram newspaper reported that he was sentenced for money laundering and using his position to gain profits using illegal means. Related Articles The Giza...
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Examiner
| 2 years ago
Syria's army says it has begun withdrawing from a city at the heart of the country's uprising, but the regime expands its crackdown elsewhere by deploying soldiers and arresting hundreds ahead of a new wave of anti-government protests expected Friday.
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Leader Post Online
| 2 years ago
Switzerland has frozen 70 million Swiss francs ($81 million) linked to former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo and his associates, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Gbagbo had refused to leave power after an election last November that...
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BNO News
| 2 years ago
A Tunisian Court on Thursday accused ousted President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of further charges of plotting against national security and inciting violence.
According to the state-run TAP news agency, the cases of Ben Ali, his wife Leila Ben Ali,...
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Leader Post Online
| 2 years ago
A former Tunisian interior minister said on Thursday that loyalists of ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali will mount a coup if Islamists take power in democratic elections. Tunisia's main Islamist group, Ennahda, led by moderate Muslim scholar...
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BBC
| 2 years ago
Tunisia's ex-leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife are to face new charges linked to the killings of some protesters during January's uprising. Mr Ben Ali was ousted after weeks of protests and fled to Saudi Arabia. He already faces 18...
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Africa Headlines
| 2 years ago
After Mubarak, the Military Fist Cam Mcgrath 5 May 2011 Cairo Thousands of Egyptian civilians, including protesters who helped topple the authoritarian regime of president Hosni Mubarak, have been tried in military courts without due process. "The...
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News 24
| 2 years ago
Former Tunisian president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his wife Leila Trabelsi have been charged with "plotting against the internal security of the state", the justice ministry announced on Wednesday. Charges also include the "instigation of disorder,...
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NOW Lebanon
| 2 years ago
A court sentenced once feared Egyptian Interior Minister Habib al-Adly to 12 years for money-laundering on Thursday in the first trial of an official from the regime of ousted president Hosni Mubarak. Adly, who ran Mubarak's security services for...
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Israel National News
| 2 years ago
May/05/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and Former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali has been charged with killing protesters during the recent uprising in the country. According to the charges, Ben Ali and his wife personally ordered troops...
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International Herald Tribune
| 2 years ago
May 4, 2011 Tunisian authorities have filed new charges against the ousted leader, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali , and his wife over the killing of protesters during the revolt against his rule, the official TAP news agency reported on Wednesday.
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The New York Times
| 2 years ago
May 4, 2011 Tunisian authorities have filed new charges against the ousted leader, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali , and his wife over the killing of protesters during the revolt against his rule, the official TAP news agency reported on Wednesday.
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CNN
| 2 years ago
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak could be executed if he is convicted of ordering the killing of protesters, Egypt's justice minister says. "One of the charges he is facing is complicity in the killing of martyrs and issuing the orders for...
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CNN
| 2 years ago
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak could be executed if he is convicted of ordering the killing of protesters, Egypt's justice minister says. "One of the charges he is facing is complicity in the killing of martyrs and issuing the orders for...
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AP Online
| 2 years ago
Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's toppled dictator and his wife are facing charges of inciting violence in connection with a bloody crackdown following his January ouster, the official TAP news agency reported Wednesday.
The report cited a...
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Macleans
| 2 years ago
The official TAP news agency says Tunisia's toppled president and his wife are facing additional charges of wrongdoing in a bloody crackdown that followed his January ouster. Wednesday's report cites a Justice Ministry statement as saying Zine El...
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SwissInfo
| 2 years ago
That is how Swiss foreign ministry spokesman Lars Knuchel summarised the situation, addressing the media in Tunis on Tuesday. Swiss ambassadors to the region had gathered in Tunis to further develop the basic strategy adopted by the Swiss cabinet in...
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The Journal Gazette
| 2 years ago
Grimaldi Swiss authorities say that banks in their country have located almost $1 billion in assets of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as well as the former presidents of Egypt and Tunisia. Financial regulators in Switzerland had identified in Swiss...
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The Guardian
| 2 years ago
Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images Senior Libyan officials face international arrest warrants for crimes against humanity, the United Nations security council will be told today. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, is...
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The Guardian
| 2 years ago
Xinhua/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images The Swiss government says it has identified potential assets to be frozen worth 830m Swiss francs (nearly $1bn or £600m) belonging to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the ousted presidents of Egypt and Tunisia .
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BBC
| 2 years ago
Switzerland says it has frozen nearly $1bn worth of assets linked to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and the deposed leaders of Egypt and Tunisia. Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said some 830m Swiss francs (£580m; $960m) had been discovered...
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AKI
| 2 years ago
Switzerland has said it located the equivalent of 416 million euros of possibly illegal assets connected to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and two other former North African leaders: former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarack and Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali,...
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Leader Post Online
| 2 years ago
Switzerland has found 360 million Swiss francs ($415.8 million US) of potentially illegal assets linked to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and his circle stashed in the Alpine country, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Some 410 million Swiss francs...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 2 years ago
Breaking News Swiss reveal funds stashed by Gaddafi, Mubarak, Ben Ali Switzerland has found 360 million Swiss francs ($415.8 million) of potentially illegal assets linked to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his circle stashed in the Alpine country,...
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SwissInfo
| 2 years ago
Calmy-Rey was speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of a meeting in Tunis of Swiss ambassadors in the region. How long will it take before the money of the Ben Ali clan is given back to the Tunisian state? a local journalist asked Calmy-Rey,...
