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President Barack Obama will use a European tour this week to urge U.S. allies to help press forward the movement for democratic change presented by the Arab spring uprisings in the Middle East, reports said

Tunisian Foreign Minister Mouldi Kefi said that he believed Libyan Oil Minister Shokri Ghanem is no longer working for Gaddafi regime, Reuters reported on Monday.

President Barack Obama said on Sunday and Israel-Palestine peace deal could not wait another decade, saying that challenges facing Israel would only grow and delay would undermine Israel's security.

Using a region in upheaval as the impetus behind his “Arab spring” speech, President Barack Obama saw to it that the world knew just what it is that America values.

President Barack Obama has said Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi will either leave power soon or be forced out. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Gaddafi's wife and daughter Aisha have fled to Tunisia.

President Barack Obama promised to support democracy in nascent revolutions in the Middle East on Friday, saying he would push for billions of dollars in financial incentives for Egypt and Tunisia on Thursday in the wake of uprisings across the region in recent months.

Here is the White House text of President Barack Obama‘s speech on the Middle East, as prepared for delivery.

Tunisian authorities have lifted an overnight curfew imposed in the capital city of Tunis 10 days ago.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi wife and daughter have fled for Tunisia, a Tunisian security source told Reuters.

A recorded audio messages purportedly made by Osama bin Laden and shortly before he was killed wqas released by al Qaeda's media wing as-Sahab on Wednesday and posted on some select Islamic websites, reports said.

More than 750,000 people have fled Libya and another 150,000 have relocated in the country since the conflict started, Panos Moumtzis, United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Libya, said on Tuesday.

In his speech concerning the Middle East at the State Department this Thursday, President Barack Obama is expected to outline his vision for the future of a region in upheaval.

Libya’s oil minister has reportedly fled the tattered regime of Moammar Gaddafi and defected to Tunisia over the weekend, making him one of the most prominent Libyan officials to abandon Tripoli.

There are two carved-in-granite long-term economic trends; one of them being the decline of the dollar and the other one being war. I think those are locked in, and so I recommend people buy investments that do well during wartime or during periods of currency debasement, which we have.

Oil prices edged lower on Tuesday, pressured by a stronger dollar and concerns about global growth prospects after a slew of weak economic data, bringing losses to around 15 percent so far in May.

Oil prices rose on Tuesday, after sliding by around 15 percent so far in May, but investors were concerned about global growth prospects after a slew of weak economic data.

Tunisian forces have arrested two suspected members of al Qaeda near the Libyan border.

Osama bin Laden apparently supported the revolts which spread across the Arab world this spring, according to an audio message found at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, according to a U.S. government official.

The Islamic Republic of Iran finds itself grappling with new realities in a Middle East that has been turned upside-down by an unprecedented wave of revolt and rebellion

Libya's army fired streams of rockets at the rebel-occupied Zintan, forcing thousands to flee the town to bordering Tunisia.

The Swiss government has imposed a three-year freeze on bank assets valued at 830-million Swiss Francs (almost $1-billion) which are linked to Moammar Gaddafi of Libya, Hosni Mubarak, the former leader of Egypt and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the deposed ruler of Tunisia.