Politics

Human chain against Israel move to deport illegal migrants - 08/01/2009

TEL AVIV - Thousands of Israeli and migrant workers, including children, formed a human chain on Saturday in Tel Aviv in protest at Israel's decision to deport families of illegal aliens. AFP...

US signs key UN convention for rights of the disabled - 07/31/2009

UNITED NATIONS - Amid applause and a smattering of hoots, the US ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday signed a landmark UN convention promoting and protecting the rights of the world's 650...

Clinton to press on Zimbabwe: official - 07/31/2009

WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will push for reforms in Zimbabwe during an upcoming trip to the region and encourage South Africa to press its neighbor, her top Africa aide said...

Inglorious end for Nigerian Islamist sect leader - 07/31/2009

MAIDUGURI - Mohammed Yusuf, 39, the spiritual leader of an Islamist extremist sect captured and shot dead Thursday after his group launched an uprising, had been freed from jail early this year over...

Obama backs Philippine peace push - 07/31/2009

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Thursday threw his support behind peace moves between the Philippines and Muslim rebels as he met with President Gloria Arroyo. Holding his first White House...

Netanyahu says people of Gaza will overthrow Hamas - 07/29/2009

JERUSALEM- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday predicted the people of the Gaza Strip will one day overthrow the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the enclave of 1.5 million...

Dalai Lama compares fate of Tibetans to WWII Warsaw Uprising - 07/29/2009

WARSAW - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday compared the fate of the Tibetan people to Polish insurgents who rose up against Nazi Germany in the doomed 1944 Warsaw Uprising....

Iranian opposition group denounces Iraqi attack on camp - 07/29/2009

PARIS - The main Iranian opposition group in exile on Tuesday denounced an Iraqi operation against a camp housing thousands of its supporters, accusing Baghdad of acting on the orders of Tehran. A...

US touts new era as Iraqi forces take lead - 07/29/2009

BAGHDAD, Dan De Luce - US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday spoke of a new era in Iraq with American troops playing a less dominant role as Baghdad's security forces increasingly take the...

US envoy reaches Cairo on whirlwind Mideast tour - 07/26/2009

CAIRO, Samer al-Atrush - US Middle East envoy George Mitchell reached Egypt on the latest leg of a whirlwind regional tour after stops in Israel and Syria earlier on Sunday, as Washington bids to...
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