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An angry crowd lingering near the Israeli embassy in Cairo after an attack on the building a day earlier turned on journalists reporting the incident Saturday, accusing at least one of being an Israeli spy.

The death toll stands at 158 in Saturday’s ferry accident off the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, government officials said.

Thousands of Yemeni troops freed a brigade that had been under a three-month siege in the Abyan province by militants and insurgents with close ties to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Interior Ministry reported Saturday.

Five NATO-led service members died in Afghanistan on Friday, the International Security Assistance Force said.

Thousands of protesters and an equal number of police fanned out in several Greek cities Saturday evening ahead of an expected announcement by the country’s prime minister that additional austerity measures are on the way.

Warships stopped a suspected pirate skiff Saturday and rescued a crew member of a French yacht that sent a distress call this week off the coast of Yemen, officials said.

Syria’s embattled president met with the head of the Arab League on Saturday amid worldwide ire over the country’s brutal crackdown on protesters.

Fighters were given the go ahead to attack one of Moammar Gadhafi’s last bastions of support after a deadline for the town to surrender passed without an apparent deal, a military commander told CNN Saturday.