Politics

Issue of east Jerusalem sparks EU-Israel row - 12/02/2009

BRUSSELS - A row broke out between Israel and the European Union Tuesday over a draft EU proposal that east Jerusalem should become the capital of a future Palestinian state as part of a Middle East...

In offering Afghan exit, Obama faces dilemma - 12/02/2009

WASHINGTON, Dan De Luce - President Barack Obama faces a near impossible task as he seeks to reassure Americans he has an exit plan for US forces in Afghanistan while conveying to allies and an...

US transfers two Tunisian Guantanamo inmates to Italy - 12/01/2009

ROME - Two Tunisian Guantanamo inmates have been transferred by the United States to Italy where they will face trial, the Italian justice ministry announced Monday. The two were identified Adel...

Canadian court frees Egyptian terrorist - 12/01/2009

OTTAWA - A federal court on Monday ordered the release of an Egyptian man convicted of terrorism in his home country and who was later detained in Canada for eight years as a possible national...

Gurrumul, the star who 'just wants to go home' - 11/30/2009

PARIS, Claire Rosemberg - On his first tour of Europe but fast becoming the talk of the town, upcoming world music sensation Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, the blind Aboriginal with the voice of an...

Israel could swap 980 prisoners for captive soldier: report - 11/30/2009

JERUSALEM - Israel could free 980 Palestinian prisoners if the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas agrees to hand over captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, media reported on Sunday. Ynet news...

US warns as defiant Iran vows new uranium plants - 11/30/2009

TEHRAN, Farhad Pouladi- A defiant Iran said on Sunday it would build 10 new uranium enrichment plants as the United States warned the Islamic republic that time for it to meet international nuclear...

Egypt mufti says Swiss minaret ban insults Muslims - 11/30/2009

CAIRO- Egypt's Mufti Ali Gomaa denounced a vote to ban new minarets in Switzerland on Sunday as an "insult" to Muslims across the world, while calling on Muslims not to be provoked by the move. A...

Editor-in-Chief of the New Yorker: the electronic press won't replace the printed press - 11/29/2009

Rome – Abdul Rahman Bitar - The editor-in-chief of the prestigious American magazine, the New Yorker arrived to the Italian capital like a star of Hollywood. The invitation of the Italian magazine...

New Iran sanctions would be pointless: Brazil - 11/29/2009

RIO DE JANEIRO- Brazil, which abstained from voting for an IAEA resolution censuring Iran's nuclear drive, said Saturday that fresh UN sanctions against Tehran would be pointless. Brazil abstained...
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