Lost amid the election-year wrangling over the embassy attack in Benghazi, Libya, is a complex back story involving regional resentment against American private security contractors.

Calls to extend the tours of security teams that were denied by the State Department largely concerned the embassy in Tripoli — not Benghazi, the site of a lethal attack.

At least 110 people were injured in the bloodiest clashes between the two sides of Egypt’s main ideological divide since the start of the revolt that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

Recent floods in Niger have killed 91 people and caused significant damage, according to a top official, Aghaly Abdoulkader, who is the director of the cabinet.

Recent floods in Niger have killed 91 people and caused significant damage, according to a top official, Aghaly Abdoulkader, who is the director of the cabinet.