A fire erupted in a telecommunications building in the downtown Ramses district of Cairo on Monday, causing widespread communications disruptions across the Egyptian capital, local media said.
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France’s ex-leader Sarkozy says after jail release ‘truth will prevail’
France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Monday that the truth would win out after he was released from prison under judicial supervision ahead of an appeal trial over Libyan funding. Sarkozy, 70, earlier Monday left La Sante prison in Paris — a 20-day experience the former president called a
US Senate passes bill to end government shutdown, sends to House
The US Senate on Monday approved a compromise that would end the longest government shutdown in US history, breaking a weeks-long stalemate that has disrupted food benefits for millions, left hundreds of thousands of federal workers unpaid and snarled air traffic. The 60-40 vote passed with the support of nearly
Philippines digs out from Typhoon Fung-wong as death toll climbs to 18
Rescuers using backhoes and chainsaws began digging the Philippines out from the devastation of Typhoon Fung-wong on Tuesday, as floodwaters receded in hundreds of villages and the storm’s death toll climbed to 18. Fung-wong, which displaced 1.4 million people, had weakened into a severe tropical storm even as
Lebanon releases Hannibal Qaddafi from prison on bail: lawyer
Lebanon released Hannibal Qaddafi, the son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, on bail on Monday after nearly a decade in prison, his lawyer told AFP. “We left, he is free,” Laurent Bayon said, hours after Qaddafi’s bail of $900,000 was paid. The younger Qaddafi, 49, was accused