Politics

Syria rejects Arab League call for power change - 01/24/2012

DAMASCUS- Syria on Monday rejected an Arab League plan for President Bashar al-Assad to step down and clear the way for a national unity government, a call Europeans welcomed as a potential...

Yemen president en route to US - 01/24/2012

SABA news agency said on its website that Saleh "is on his way to the United States to continue what is left of his medical treatment" for wounds sustained in a June bomb attack on his compound....

Palestinians threaten to stop talks with Israel - 01/24/2012

"No date has been set until now for a new meeting" after the fourth such talk was held in Amman on January 21, added the official who is close to the exploratory negotiations. EU diplomacy chief...

Arab League calls on Assad to cede power, turns to UN - 01/23/2012

CAIRO, Mona Salem- The Arab League on Sunday asked the UN to support a new plan for resolving the crisis in Syria that sees President Bashar al-Assad transferring power to his deputy and a government...

Libya leader says 'civil war' possible if NTC quits - 01/23/2012

BENGHAZI, Ibrahim al-Majbari- Libyan leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil said Sunday the nation would fall into a "civil war" if the ruling National Transitional Council resigned, as it faced its first major...

As region changes, Hamas movement shifts - 01/23/2012

The group has also moved towards reconciliation with its longtime rival Fatah, and its chief Khaled Meshaal has talked about the need to focus on peaceful protest. But the shifts have created a...

Deserters 'take Syria town' as SNC seeks UN action - 01/22/2012

DAMASCUS- Army deserters on Saturday took the town of Douma northeast of Damascus on Saturday after fierce fighting, activists said, a day before the Arab League decides the future of its Syria...

Khaled Meshaal, man who embodies Hamas shift - 01/22/2012

It is there he spent his childhood before going into exile with his family to Kuwait, following the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 when the Jewish state seized the West Bank. As a student at Kuwait...

Brothers win almost half of Egypt parliament seats - 01/22/2012

CAIRO, Mona Salem- Egypt's Islamists led by the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood clinched more than two thirds of seats in parliament in historic polls after the ouster of strongman Hosni Mubarak,...

Pressure mounts for UN to intervene in Syria - 01/21/2012

DAMASCUS- Pressure mounted on the Arab League on Friday to seek UN intervention in the face of growing exasperation that the bloc's hard-won observer mission in Syria has failed to staunch 10 months...
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