Written by Reuters Wednesday, 15 May 2013 09:22
Dominique Strauss-Kahn helped to open a new bank in the world's youngest nation, South Sudan, a low-key return to the international stage for the former IMF chief brought down by a sex scandal.Read more... Comments (1)

Egypt's parliament approved a new income tax law that will increase levies paid by the wealthy and by companies but reduce it for people in lower income brackets.
Mali will ask international donors for nearly two billion euros ($2.6 billion) to help rebuild the country and try to halt a resurgence of al Qaeda-linked Islamists who were driven out of the major northern towns by a French-led offensive.
A bomb exploded outside a police station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi in the early hours, damaging the building and shattering the windows of a school opposite but causing no injuries, a police official said.








