Politics

Obama makes new vow to close Guantanamo - 01/05/2010

WASHINGTON- US President Barack Obama on Tuesday renewed his vow to close the Guantanamo Bay jail despite deciding to suspend transfers of prisoners to Yemen following the Christmas Day airliner...

British PM 'appalled' by planned Islamist march - 01/04/2010

LONDON- Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday he was "appalled" at a planned march by Islamists through the town where Britain's Afghanistan war dead are repatriated, branding it "abhorrent and...

Abbas visits Egypt for talks on Mideast peace - 01/03/2010

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas arrived in Egypt on Sunday for talks aimed at relaunching peace talks with Israel, amid lingering divisions over Jewish settlement...

Italian minister calls for preventive strategy on Islamic extremism - 01/03/2010

ROME - The European Union must develop a strategy of prevention to deal with the terrorist threat in Yemen, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said in a television interview Sunday. "The...

Saudi FM says Israel behaves like 'spoiled child' - 01/03/2010

RIYADH, Paul Handley - Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said on Saturday that Israel acts like a "spoiled child" and stalls Middle East peace talks thanks to easy international...

Danish cartoonist defiant despite threats - 01/03/2010

COPENHAGEN, Slim Allagui - Kurt Westergaard has remained defiant in the face of repeated death threats following his controversial drawing of the prophet Mohammed. The Danish cartoonist sparked...

Israeli Arabs and Jews protest against Gaza blockade - 01/03/2010

TEL AVIV - Hundreds of Israeli pacifists, both Arabs and Jews, marched in central Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest against the blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip. The demonstrators --...

Iran 'standing in its own way' on nuclear deal: US - 01/03/2010

WASHINGTON- The White House Saturday said Iran was "standing in its own way" by imposing an ultimatum on world powers to accept its version of a deal to defuse the building nuclear showdown....

Top US anti-terror boss vows focus after airliner attack - 01/03/2010

WASHINGTON- The recent failed bid to blow up a US airliner is a reminder of "insidious terrorist threats" faced by the United States according to a top US counterterrorism official, who vowed...

Yemen's Saleh appeals for reason from rebels, Qaeda - 01/01/2010

SANAA- Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh appealed for reason from Shiite rebels in the north, separatists in the south and Al-Qaeda militants in an article published on Friday to mark the new...
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