Tripoli hit by shortages of medicine, fuel, cash, says UN
TRIPOLI: Libya's capital is wracked by shortages of medicine, fuel and cash despite "aspects of normalcy," UN fact finders said, as the top US military officer deemed NATO's air campaign…
Report: 26 dead in Morocco military plane crash
RABAT: A Moroccan military transport plane slammed into a mountain Tuesday not far from the disputed Western Sahara, killing dozens, the state news agency reported. Information Minister Khaled Naciri confirmed…
23 Ben Ali associates on trial in Tunisia
TUNIS: Twenty-three allies of ousted Tunisian leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his wife Leila Trabelsi appeared before a Tunis court Tuesday for trying to flee the country last…
Hamas hangs two ‘Israeli collaborators’ in Gaza
GAZA CITY: Gaza's Hamas rulers on Tuesday hanged two Palestinians who were convicted of "collaborating" with Israel, an interior ministry statement said. It was the second time this year that…
Israeli PM aims to defuse growing housing protests
JERUSALEM: Israel's prime minister responded Tuesday to a growing wave of protests over housing prices with a string of reforms aimed at defusing a crisis that has brought about a…
We’ve been expecting you, Elisa Nocita
By Chitra Kalyani Jazz is one surprise after another; it is to be expected. Dressed in a black evening dress with detached sleeves, the star, featured by the recently-formed group the…
Ann Patchett gives hometown the gift of books
The best-selling author of "State of Wonder," ''Bel Canto" and other novels doesn't tweet, and you won't find her on Facebook. Her rarely powered-up flip phone is 8 years old.…
Women demand equal rights in new charter
By AFP CAIRO: Fifteen Egyptian groups called on Tuesday for women's rights to be guaranteed in the new constitution, after a popular uprising that toppled the regime paved the way…
Groping in the fog of war
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: There’s a battle to win hearts and minds in today’s war of words. Not much has changed since Carl von Clausewitz defined military strategy as the employment…
Winning the transition
By Sri Mulyani Indrawati WASHINGTON, DC: Is the Arab Spring turning into a gloomy autumn? With brutal crackdowns in Syria, a bloody civil war in Libya, and Yemen teetering on the…