Politics

Nine people killed in south Yemen violence - 09/05/2010

ADEN- Six people including four policemen were killed in overnight clashes in Yemen's tense south, where a separate Qaeda-style ambush killed a tribal chief and his two bodyguards, local and tribal...

Israeli police fail to protect Palestinians: rights group - 09/05/2010

JERUSALEM- An Israeli rights group on Sunday accused Jerusalem police of failing to protect Palestinians in annexed east Jerusalem from hardline settlers residing in neighbourhoods heavily populated...

ElBaradei says government behind daughter's swimsuit photos - 09/05/2010

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush - Mohamed ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear chief turned Egyptian reformer, accused the government of publishing pictures of his daughter in a swimsuit and at an event in which...

Turning sex appeal into votes in Brazil's elections - 09/03/2010

RIO DE JANEIRO, Andrea Palatnik- General election campaigning in Brazil has taken on a characteristically sexual undertone, with some candidates showing off luscious curves and breathy voices as they...

Scepticism abounds in Middle East after peace talks 'show' - 09/03/2010

JERUSALEM, Joseph Krauss- Observers across the Middle East expressed deep pessimism pierced with glimmers of hope on Friday after the launch of yet another round of Israeli-Palestinian talks in a...

Jordan urged to free student accused of insulting the king - 09/03/2010

AMMAN- Human Rights Watch on Friday called on Jordan to free a student arrested in July and accused of insulting King Abdullah II. "Jordan’s military prosecutor at the State Security Court should...

Abbas, Netanyahu vow to meet every two weeks for peace - 09/03/2010

WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael- Israeli and Palestinian leaders launched their first direct negotiations in 20 months here Thursday, agreeing to meet every two weeks in a bid to settle core...

Hamas vows more deadly attacks on Israelis - 09/03/2010

GAZA CITY, Sakher Abu El Oun- The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas vowed to press its campaign of deadly attacks on Israelis as a new round of Middle East peace talks was launched in Washington on...

US should apologise for Yemenis' arrest: Yemen ambassador - 09/03/2010

THE HAGUE- The United States should apologise for the wrongful arrest of two Yemenis on Dutch soil after gifts in their luggage gave rise to terror suspicions, Yemen's ambassador to The Hague said...

France's Cassel vies for US stardom as gangster 'Mesrine' - 09/03/2010

LOS ANGELES, Romain Raynaldy - French film star Vincent Cassel's bravura portrayal of a murderous mobster seems likely to win him greater fame and critical acclaim here, as US critics lap up his...
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