Middle Eastern countries feel tricked by the 40-year-old nuclear non proliferation treaty, an Egyptian diplomat warned on Wednesday, less than two months before crucial talks on the arms control deal. Egypt's ambassador to the UN in Geneva and the conference on disarmament, Hisham Badr, said there was widespread resentment towards the NPT, which forms the cornerstone of efforts to ...

Sunni Islam's top cleric Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, a controversial figure in Egypt, died on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia of a heart attack suffered while boarding a plane, state media said. Tantawi, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar -- Sunni Islam's highest seat of learning -- had been in Riyadh to attend the King Faisal awards ceremony, Egypt's official MENA ...

African trucking routes, long known as pathways for spreading HIV across borders, have been drawn in new maps that also direct drivers to clinics that treat AIDS, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. About 20,000 maps have been printed and distribution began last week, Catherine Larkin, a spokeswoman for the project, told AFP. English maps for East, West and Southern Africa ...