Fighting between the Lebanese military and Muslim fighters at a Palestinian refugee camp has continued into a fourth day, with renewed gunfire reported in the evening. The fighting has left scores dead, destroyed houses and triggered a flood of refugees from the camp.

CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt approved on Thursday the formation of a new liberal political party headed by a former member of President Hosni Mubarak’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).

Egypt is to play host to Palestinian factions on Sunday, in a bid to cement a fragile ceasefire between President Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah group and the Islamist Hamas group, the official MENA agency reported.