Politics

Queen, politicians, Nobel winner named to UN social panel - 08/01/2012

UNITED NATIONS- UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday named a queen, a former president, a Nobel Peace prize winner and a corporate mogul to a 26-strong panel to recommend new global social and environment...

US hits out at Europe, Egypt over religious freedoms - 07/31/2012

WASHINGTON, Jo Biddle- The United States warned the world was sliding backwards on religious freedoms Monday, criticizing violence against Coptic Christians in Egypt and citing European laws banning...

Panetta offers Tunisia help in 'terrorism' fight - 07/31/2012

TUNIS- US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday said Washington was ready to help Tunisia develop its capacities to combat Al-Qaeda, and urged closer regional cooperation in fighting the terror...

Moroccan king vows to press ahead with reforms - 07/31/2012

RABAT- Morocco's King Mohammed VI vowed on Monday to press ahead with reforms, including strengthening the independence of the judiciary and battling corruption, in a speech to mark 13 years on the...

Aleppo assault 'nail in Assad's coffin': Panetta - 07/30/2012

ABOARD A US MILITARY PLANE- US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday that the assault on his own population in Aleppo would be a nail in his coffin....

In Israel, Romney talks Iran, angers Palestinians - 07/30/2012

JERUSALEM, Steve Weizman- White House hopeful Mitt Romney Sunday held top-level talks in Israel over Iran's nuclear ambitions but quickly drew fire from the Palestinians for endorsing Jerusalem as...

Libya's elected congress due to take power early August - 07/30/2012

TRIPOLI, Dominique Soguel- Libya's General National Congress, which will become the first elected body to rule the oil-rich nation after Moamer Kadhafi's ouster, is due to take power early August, an...

Syrian opposition says Assad shoud be tried for 'massacres' - 07/29/2012

ABU DHABI- The head of the exiled Syrian opposition said on Saturday that President Bashar al-Assad should be tried for "massacres" insisting that he should not be offered asylum in any future...

Libya's poor mark Ramadan in rubble of Kadhafi base - 07/29/2012

TRIPOLI, Dominique Soguel- Dozens of Libya's poor are celebrating the country's first free Ramadan since the ouster of Moamer Kadhafi in the shattered remains of the late dictator's infamous Bab...

Saudi police fire on Shiite protest: witnesses - 07/28/2012

DUBAI- Saudi security forces opened fire on Shiite protesters in the tense Qatif district of Eastern Province on Friday, wounding several as hundreds marched to demand the release of detainees,...
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