Politics

Iraq's Tareq Aziz will not be spared death penalty: son - 11/28/2010

AMMAN, Kamal Taha- Iraq's former deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz is bound to be executed despite international calls to Baghdad to spare him, his son told AFP in Jordan on Saturday. "I am not...

Absent ElBaradei's boycott call goes unheard in Egypt vote - 11/28/2010

CAIRO, Mona Salem - Egypt's former UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei has missed a much-anticipated opportunity to press for change by failing to unite the opposition in an election boycott,...

CBC Hariri report aimed at fuelling tensions: Hezbollah MP - 11/28/2010

BEIRUT- A Hezbollah MP on Saturday slammed a Canadian media report that the Shiite group would be implicated in the murder of Lebanon's ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, saying it aimed to fuel religious...

Israel police under fire for abusing east Jerusalem children - 11/27/2010

JERUSALEM, Hazel Ward- Israeli police were accused of "flagrant violations" of the law Thursday over their harsh and at times violent treatment of Palestinian children suspected of stone-throwing in...

Saudi arrests 149 militants, most linked to Qaeda in Yemen - 11/27/2010

RIYADH, Paul Handley- Saudi Arabia has arrested 149 suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants in 19 separate cells planning attacks on state officials, foreigners and journalists, the interior ministry...

S.Korea boosts defences as North warns of more strikes - 11/25/2010

YEONPYEONG ISLAND, Jung Ha-Won- South Korea said Thursday it would send more troops and guns to frontline islands, as North Korea warned it could follow up this week's deadly shelling with more...

Egypt's Mubarak says Palestinian-Israel talks should resume - 11/25/2010

MANAMA- President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt on Thursday said peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, suspended in late September over Jewish settlements in occupied territory, should resume....

Britain's queen visits UAE - 11/25/2010

ABU DHABI, Lynne Nahhas - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip arrived in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, more than three decades after their only other visit to the oil-rich United...

Lebanon Druze leader demands govt reject Hariri tribunal - 11/25/2010

BEIRUT- Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt on Wednesday accused a UN-backed probe into the murder of the country's ex-premier of being politically motivated and urged the cabinet to unanimously...

Jewish settlers take over east Jerusalem home - 11/24/2010

JERUSALEM, Hazel Ward- Settlers and police evicted a Palestinian family from their home in east Jerusalem on Tuesday, after the house was sold to a group involved in settlement activity, the family...
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