Protesters demanding Mr Mubarak be tried gathered outside the hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh
Egypt: Mubarak and sons detained amid corruption probe
Egypt's prosecutor general has ordered the detention of former President Hosni Mubarak, ahead of an investigation into corruption and abuse allegations.
Mubarak, two sons detained in rare move
Cairo (CNN) -- Egyptians exulted Wednesday over the detention of their ailing former president and his two sons in a probe exploring the killing of protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the center of the country's dramatic uprising earlier this year.
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Egypt orders review of gas contracts with Israel
Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf says review is aimed at bringing in greatest returns for country, at income boost of some $3-4 billion.
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Tony Blair defends political past with Libya
13 April 2011 Last updated at 12:27 ET Help
The former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has defended Britain's relationship with Colonel Gaddafi while he was in office.
Summit urges Gaddafi to stand down
13 April 2011 Last updated at 11:27 ET Help
The newly formed international "contact group" on Libya has called for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to stand down as the country's leader.
Libya group agrees 'trust fund' for rebels
International contact group calls on Gaddafi to step down to "allow Libyan people to determine their own future".
Ivorian leader says Gbagbo will face charges
Former president to face charges while Ouattara pledges to ask ICC to probe alleged massacres committed during crisis.
Criminal State Of Israel Is Worried By "Weakening" United States
The days of the United States as the one major superpower left on planet Earth are coming to a rapid close. America can no longer project its power and will over other nations, due primarily to its critical problems domestically, which include a crushing criminal debt load, loss of a strong manufacturing base, and extremely high unemployment. Many nations are now aware of the waning power of America and are no longer in fear of America controlling and dictating their policies.
Prosecutor: Israel foreign minister may be charged
JERUSALEM Israel's attorney general has announced that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will be indicted on corruption charges, but allowed him a standard final hearing before charging him.
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TEPCO still working on plan to end Japan nuclear crisis
(Reuters) - The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant said Wednesday it was still working on a detailed plan to end the country's nuclear crisis a month after it began, as tests showed radiation levels in the sea near the complex had spiked.
Avigdor Lieberman pans Hamas in toilet interview
Israel's outspoken foreign minister has chosen a novel way of making a point in a radio interview - apparently flushing the toilet live on the air.
Protests in Yemen turn deadly
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Five people were killed in clashes between rival forces in the Yemeni capital Sanaa as nationwide protests against the government continued Wednesday.
Syrian marchers: Free our men
(CNN) -- Women and children from a Syrian village rallied Wednesday for the release of their husbands and fathers snatched up by security forces the day before, an eyewitness told CNN.
Syrian protests spread to Aleppo
Students reportedly clash with security forces in country's second city while women march in protest over mass arrests.
Crackdown in Swaziland as unrest grows
Police fire tear gas and water cannons at hundreds of teachers as they planned to protest in Manzini.
Palestinians to U.S.: Revive peace talks before we establish state
Palestinian PM to ask western donors for $5 billion in investment to launch state; Israeli official: We are ready to begin negotiations at any time.
Israeli town rallies against African refugees
Eilat is home to thousands of refugees and their lives in the small town are often marred by open hostility.
Israeli FM Lieberman: Europe should fix itself first
Israel's foreign minister has told visiting European foreign ministers to solve Europe's problems before taking on the Middle East.
Avigdor Lieberman's remarks came during a visit by Bernard Kouchner of France and Spain's Miguel Angel Moratinos.
Earlier, Mr Kouchner had said that the option of the UN Security Council declaring a Palestinian state could not be ruled out if negotiations failed.
The European ministers are due to meet Palestinian and Jordanian leaders.
They are in the region as part of efforts to save the Middle East peace talks, which are in danger of collapsing.
Palestinian officials say they will pull out of talks if Israel refuses to extend its partial freeze on settlement building in the occupied West Bank.
'Short shrift'
In an interview published on Sunday by the Palestinian newspaper al-Ayyam, Mr Kouchner said that France preferred a two-state solution to be negotiated with Israel, but added that appealing to the Security Council to resolve the conflict remained a possibility.
"We want to be able to soon welcome the state of Palestine to the United Nations... The international community cannot be satisfied with a prolonged deadlock. I therefore believe that one cannot rule out in principle the Security Council option," he said.
But he was told to mind his own business by Mr Lieberman during a meeting later on Sunday.
"Before coming here to tell us how to solve our conflicts, I would expect you could have at least solved all the problems within Europe," Israel's outspoken foreign minister said in comments published in the Israeli media.
Mr Kouchner said that despite its problems, Europe was "an example of problem solving".
The French minister noted that Europe was comprised of 27 countries "who were at war for centuries, but which now get along".
Following a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he said he was optimistic about a resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli impasse over renewed Jewish settlement building in the West Bank, but said it could take time.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has vowed that there will be no further talks until settlement activity halts.
Over the weekend, Arab League foreign ministers agreed to give the US one month to try and break the deadlock.
Israel has refused Palestinian and international demands to extend a 10-month moratorium on new settler homes that expired last month.
About 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. They are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.
Israel minister Lieberman 'abused trust,' say police
Israeli police have recommended that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman face fresh charges in a corruption scandal.
Mr Lieberman and another official are accused of trying to manipulate a police investigation into alleged money laundering.
Police have previously recommended that the foreign minister, a right-wing member of the governing coalition, should be indicted on other charges.
They have added "breaching the public trust" to the list of charges.
Israel's attorney general must now decide whether to take up the charges. This is a process that can take months.
The police say that the country's former ambassador to Belarus, Zeev Ben Aryeh, is alleged to have given Mr Lieberman -a political ally - a document detailing a the police investigation.
Mr Lieberman had reportedly plucked Mr Ben Aryeh from obscurity at the foreign ministry and made him an ambassador, the Haaretz newspaper reported.
The minister worked as a nightclub bouncer in his youth in the USSR, and is known for his abrasive style.
He famously once said that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak could "go to hell".
Last August police recommended indicting Mr Lieberman on charges of bribery, money laundering and obstruction of justice.
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