Avant-garde rocker ‘Captain Beefheart’ dead at 69
Don Van Vliet, an avant-garde rocker who performed under the name "Captain…
Iran’s supreme power struggle
By Mehdi Khalaji WASHINGTON, DC: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has never…
Seeing REDD on climate change
By George Soros CANCÚN: The official communiqué from the Cancún climate-change conference cannot…
Europe’s myopic defense cuts
By Uffe Ellemann-Jensen COPENHAGEN: All over Europe, budgets are being pared as a…
Saudi Nov inflation unchanged at 5.8 pct yr/yr
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia's annual inflation remained unchanged from the previous month at…
Lebanon awaits Hariri indictments on tenterhooks
By Rita Daou/ AFP BEIRUT: The Beirut government is in paralysis, business deals…
Iran hikes gasoline price four-fold as subsidies cut
TEHRAN: The price of gasoline will rise four-fold in Iran in the…
Mercosur inks tariff deal with Egypt, others
FOZ DO IGUACU: South America's Mercosur trade partners signed a preferential tariff…
Iran approached Bedouin for Gaza gun running: cable
CAIRO: Egypt's spy chief told US officials last year Iran was trying…