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December 9, 2015

US official's son detained in Egypt says he could face 5 years in jail

Sam LaHood, son of the U.S. Transportation Secretary and one of several Americans barred from leaving Egypt last weekend, said Friday he could be facing five years in jail.

December 9, 2015

Reporter's Notebook: Outside the hospital where Mandela is receiving treatment

Just a few miles from where President Obama was praising Nelson Mandela as a "beacon of the power of principle," the anti-Apartheid icon lay in a hospital bed in critical condition.   

December 9, 2015

Acid attack on Catholic priest in Zanzibar: police

Attackers doused a Catholic priest with acid on the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar on Friday, police said, the latest such assault following an attack on two British women last month.

December 9, 2015

Security tight in Kenya for British Islamist trial

Suspected British Islamist militant Jermaine Grant, accused of ties to Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab, appeared in a Kenyan court on Tuesday on explosives charges.

December 9, 2015

S.Africa shuts 16 schools amid gang violence

The South African authorities temporarily closed 16 schools in a Cape Town suburb Thursday following a surge in gang violence, keeping some 12,000 children at home.

December 9, 2015

Egypt PM plans more talks on forming a cabinet

Egypt's new prime minister planned further talks Sunday on forming a cabinet, as prosecutors looked at criminal complaints against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and members of his Muslim Brotherhood.

December 9, 2015

Malawi president says job could make her 'mad'

Malawian President Joyce Banda on Friday gave a candid glimpse into the stresses of office, admitting that thinking of the plethora of problems including widespread poverty could drive her mad.

December 9, 2015

Ruling Islamists accept plan to resolve Tunisia crisis

Tunisia's ruling Islamist party announced Friday it has accepted an ambitious roadmap proposed by mediators to form a government of technocrats and resolve the country's two-month-old political crisis.

December 9, 2015

Egypt 'seeks arrest of Brotherhood's top leaders'

The authorities in Egypt issued an arrest warrant on Thursday for the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme leader Mohammed Badie and his first deputy Khairat El-Shater, a judicial source told AFP.

December 9, 2015

Libyan Rebels Seize 3 Western Towns From Qaddafi Troops

Libyan rebels forced government troops from three western towns and broke the siege on another, a rebel commander said Friday, and NATO pounded ten targets across the country.