Following are highlights of comments by financial leaders attending the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings on Saturday.
In Tunisia and Egypt, Facebook vied with Down with the regime on graffiti-filled walls -- so central were social media to mobilizing mass protests that overthrew their authoritarian rulers.
Authorities in Tunisia said they are seeking to formally file eighteen separate charges against former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, including voluntary manslaughter and drug-trafficking.
The international “contact group” that is meeting in Qatar to discuss the crisis in Libya has agreed to establish a temporary “trust fund” that will be used to move financial assistance to rebel groups seeking to topple Moammar Gaddafi.
A cell phone network called Free Libyana, brain child of a Libyan-American telecom executive Ousama Abushagur, is allowing rebels to communicate using a hijacked portion of the Libyana network.
Soaring oil prices and inflation in emerging economies pose new risks to global recovery but are not yet strong enough to derail it, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.
Soaring oil prices and inflation in emerging economies pose new risks to global recovery but are not yet strong enough to derail it, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.
Two anti-government activists in Bahrain have reportedly died in police custody weeks after they were first detained, as the government’s crackdown against opponents appear to be ever-hardening
Bahrain accused a prominent activist on Monday of fabricating images of a corpse on the Internet and summoned him for questioning in an ongoing crackdown following pro-democracy protests the state put down by force.
Bahrain accused a prominent activist on Monday of publishing fabricated images on the Internet and summoned him for questioning in an ongoing crackdown following pro-democracy protests the state put down by force. The official Bahrain News Agency said Nabeel Rajab, head of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, had published doctored images with links to social media site Twitter of one of two men ...
Oil climbed to its highest level in 2- years on Friday as supply cuts stemming from attacks on Libyan oil fields offset demand concerns spurred by a major aftershock in Japan.
Angelina Jolie, who is in Tunisia doing charity work, appeared with a new tattoo on her left arm.
A boat carrying illegal migrants from North Africa capsized near the Italian island of Lampedusa, rendering about 130 people missing, according to Italy’s coast guard officials.
As efforts to forcibly remove Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo have been launched, Ibrahim Coulibaly, a spokesman for the Ivory Coast embassy in France has re-asserted that no French forces were involved in the assault.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) says that the regime of Moammar Gaddafi planned to kill civilians even before the revolt in Libya commenced as a way for the government to stave off the kind of rebellion witnessed in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt.
Brent crude rose over $119 a barrel and U.S. crude hit a 2-1/2-year high on Monday at more than $108 as unrest in the Middle East and North Africa triggered concern that supplies could be dented while economic growth bolsters demand.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has awarded the Tor Project for championing Internet by protecting Anonymity in an era of social media revolutions in Middle East and the North African country Libya.
Libyan rebels have reportedly offered terms of a ceasefire if Moammar Gaddafi withdraws his soldiers from opposition-controlled cities and subsequently permits peaceful protests against the regime, according to a report in Al Jazeera.
Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, who has vowed to fight until the end, is in way too deep to simply surrender.
Nothing is proven yet, but there are strong signs that Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi is looking for a way out.
On the heels of the defection of former foreign minister Moussa Koussa, more high-level associated of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi have apparently abandoned him, according to a report in Al Jazeera.
The Middle East revolt was started in the obscure Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid by a fruit vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi, who was driven to desperate measures by poverty and economic corruption.
