Politics

Egypt must act to avoid repeat rockslide disaster: Amnesty - 11/17/2009

CAIRO- Egypt must take immediate action to ensure there is no repeat of a 2008 rockslide that killed more than 100 residents of a Cairo shantytown, Amnesty International warned in a report on...

Revive Mideast peace or risk extremist backlash: Sarkozy - 11/17/2009

RIYADH - French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Israel and the Palestinians to promptly revive the Middle East peace process or else risk an extremist backlash, in an interview published here...

Obama foes lash out at 9/11 trial plans - 11/16/2009

WASHINGTON, Kerry Sheridan - Prominent Republicans on Sunday lashed out at the administration's decision to try five alleged plotters of the 9/11 attacks in a New York civilian court, saying it would...

Families of US hikers in Iran worried by their mental state - 11/16/2009

WASHINGTON- The families of three US hikers detained in Iran voiced concern Sunday about their loved ones' mental state after weeks of semi-isolation in a Tehran prison, and are asking people to send...

Clinton says Rabin killing torpedoed Mideast peace - 11/15/2009

TEL AVIV - Former US president Bill Clinton on Saturday said he believes there would have been a comprehensive agreement for peace in the Middle East a decade ago if Israeli prime minister Yitzhak...

Western Sahara rights activist expelled from Morocco - 11/15/2009

RABAT - Moroccan authorities expelled to the Canary Islands Saturday a Western Sahara rights activist who was recently awarded a major peace prize in New York, a security source said. Aminatou...

Support grows in Britain for Afghanistan pullout: poll - 11/15/2009

LONDON - A growing majority of Britons want British troops out of Afghanistan within 12 months, a poll released Saturday showed, as a NATO commander spoke of his son's horrific injuries in the war....

Reality TV show exposes racial divides in China - 11/14/2009

SHANGHAI, D'Arcy Doran - Lou Jing sings Shanghai opera and speaks fluent Mandarin, but when she competed to be China's next reality TV pop star, it was not her voice that was criticised -- it was...

Morale drops among US soldiers in Afghanistan: army - 11/14/2009

WASHINGTON- A survey of US soldiers in Afghanistan shows declining morale among army units and that troops facing three or more combat tours have higher rates of mental health and marital problems,...

Alleged 9/11 mastermind bound for public court in New York - 11/14/2009

WASHINGTON, Andrew Gully - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a Kuwaiti-born Pakistani who attended university in the United States, is the self-proclaimed architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks and a host...
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