A new date next May has been set for Tunisia's first post-revolt municipal elections, already long delayed, polling officials said Saturday. The Independent High Authority for Elections said the polling date was set at May 6, rather than March 25 as previously announced, at a meeting...

A Libyan official says coast guards have rescued at least 270 migrants off Libya's eastern coast. Navy official el-Hadi Kheil said Saturday that the Arab and African migrants, who included women and children, were taken to a navy base in the capital, Tripoli. "We were lost and...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European governments are “complicit” in grave human rights violations in Libya through their support for authorities there that often work with people smugglers and torture refugees and migrants, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Determined to cut African...

Ailing Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika made a rare public appearance Thursday to encourage turn out in the country's local elections that have been marred by voter frustrations amid rising poverty. Bouteflika, 80, cast his vote at a school near the capital, Algiers. He has...