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The public prosecutor at a court in Algiers ordered an inquiry Sunday after a student alleged security forces had tortured him in custody, a statement said.  Walid Nekkiche was arrested on November 26, 2019, in Algiers during a march of students from the Hirak...

Who is Libya’s new Interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah? Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, Libya's newly elected interim prime minister, is a wealthy businessman and Canada-educated engineer close to Turkey tasked with uniting the war-riddled country ahead of elections in...

By Mona Salem with Gregory Walton in Doha - Egypt has freed a journalist for Qatar's Al Jazeera, a security source said Friday, after four years in jail without trial following the end last month of a rift between the two Arab states. Mahmoud Hussein, an Egyptian...

By Robin Millard with Rim Taher in Tripoli - Libyan delegates at UN-facilitated talks outside Geneva on Friday made the surprise choice of Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as the transitional unity prime minister to take the war-ravaged country through to elections in December. He...