Mauritania has requested that Israel close its embassy in the West African country, according to an official in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign affairs.
From the noisy and lovable Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the time-traveling DeLorean in "Back to the Future," flying cars have been a fixture of movies and science fiction that never quite cut it in the real world -- until now.
The leader of Mauritania's military coup left open the possibility he could run for president
The abduction of two Austrian tourists has raised concerns about the upsurge in extremist activity in north Africa
A Spanish court has ordered the provisional release from jail of 10 of the 30 suspected Islamic extremists charged with plotting to bomb Madrid's anti-terrorism court pending a verdict.
Gunmen opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in the West African nation of Mauritania on Friday morning, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
Gunmen killed four French tourists in northwestern Africa on Monday, a newspaper editor said.
A man armed with two pistols hijacked an Air Mauritania flight Thursday but was subdued by two passengers, a Spanish official said.
1. PERU Conservative Lourdes Flores is poised to win an April 9 election as pro-nationalization candidate Ollanta Humala stagnates in the polls.
Four-year-old Aminu Yahaya lay alongside his mother in the makeshift hospital -- exhausted, his skin peeling, alarmingly thin, and fighting to survive.
Mauritania has requested that Israel close its embassy in the West African country, according to an official in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign affairs.
From the noisy and lovable Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to the time-traveling DeLorean in "Back to the Future," flying cars have been a fixture of movies and science fiction that never quite cut it in the real world -- until now.
The leader of Mauritania's military coup left open the possibility he could run for president
The abduction of two Austrian tourists has raised concerns about the upsurge in extremist activity in north Africa
A Spanish court has ordered the provisional release from jail of 10 of the 30 suspected Islamic extremists charged with plotting to bomb Madrid's anti-terrorism court pending a verdict.
Gunmen opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in the West African nation of Mauritania on Friday morning, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
Gunmen killed four French tourists in northwestern Africa on Monday, a newspaper editor said.
A man armed with two pistols hijacked an Air Mauritania flight Thursday but was subdued by two passengers, a Spanish official said.
1. PERU Conservative Lourdes Flores is poised to win an April 9 election as pro-nationalization candidate Ollanta Humala stagnates in the polls.
Four-year-old Aminu Yahaya lay alongside his mother in the makeshift hospital -- exhausted, his skin peeling, alarmingly thin, and fighting to survive.
The Mauritanian armed forces have taken advantage of the absence of the country's president to seize power, announcing that Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall would be the nation's new leader, according to a statement released by the state new agency.
Syrian President Bashar Assad has said the media and technological revolution sweeping the region and the world is helping his country's foes to undermine and crush the Arab identity.
A small group of U.S. troops quietly helped Chad's military in a running battle this week against an Algerian Islamic group, U.S. sources said Thursday.
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