The former president, a peanut farmer turned politician, was known as much for his charity and diplomatic work later in life ...

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Not until the 8 th century BC do we find, for Egypt ... new system of standard exchange rates. When the Bretton Wood fixed rates system came to an end in 1971, the main function of the IMF became that ...

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The fighters who forced Bashar al-Assad into exile began the complex task of governing the Syrian capital. On the road to Damascus, New York Times ... a spokesman for Egypt’s foreign ministry ...

The Palestinians seek East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state. Qatar and Egypt have acted as mediators ... Above all, Hamas says it will free its remaining hostages only as part ...

The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital ...

Syrian state television aired a video statement by a group of men saying that President Bashar Assad has been overthrown and all detainees in jails have been set free. The man who read the ...

Bel Trew spent days travelling across Syria – from Aleppo in the north, to the capital Damascus and Deraa in the south – ...

The news of Jimmy Carter’s passing takes me back to 1976, a year that marked my own passage to adulthood. As the bicentennial ...