BBC (UK)
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 08:30
Three people, including a girl aged eight, died when gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a wedding party outside a Coptic Christian church in Cairo.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 08:03
Tunisian security forces have killed at least nine suspected Islamist militants who are blamed for a deadly attack on a police patrol, officials say.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 08:00
A car bomb has exploded outside a military intelligence building in the Egyptian city of Ismailiya, north-east of Cairo.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 07:43
Egyptian police have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of students staging an anti-military protest at Cairo's al-Azhar University, reports say.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 07:40
It said the attack had targeted government soldiers, but that most of the dead were civilians.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 00:00
Some 1,100 soldiers sealed off the seafront hotel, where the auction of the huge offshore Libra field is due to take place on Monday.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 10:40
Egypt's foreign ministry has described as inaccurate a report that accuses the Egyptian authorities of unlawfully detaining hundreds of Syrian refugees.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 10:25
There have been a number of recent deadly attacks by Palestinians on Israelis in the West Bank, as well as the shooting of a nine-year-old girl a fortnight ago.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 08:26
Uganda has issued a red alert after the US warned of a terror threat similar to last month's attack by militants in neighbouring Kenya.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 07:19
Ethiopian authorities are torturing and mistreating political detainees to extract confessions, Human Rights Watch says.