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Egypt's parliament Monday authorised the dismissal of public workers listed as government opponents and "terrorists", after a string of deadly rail accidents blamed on the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, lawmakers said. The legislation stipulates that all public...

By Zeďneb Boughzou In the front row of a small classroom, three women, all different nationalities, avidly learn French in southern Tunisia's stifling summer heat -- grateful for support from an umbrella of charities. Based in the city of Medenine, it's a rare locally...

200 people admitted in hospitals after bathing in polluted beach Nearly 200 people were hospitalised briefly after swimming on Sunday in seawater suspected to have been polluted at Tenes in northwestern Algeria, local authorities and media said. Three beaches and a...

By Caroline Nelly Perrot For Aisha, sexual slavery was something you only heard about happening to others in television reports, until she found herself locked in a living "hell" in Libya. "I had left a nightmare only to fall into hell," said the migrant from Guinea,...