Obama’s vision thing
By Shlomo Ben Ami MADRID: Humbled by the Republicans’ landslide mid-term election victory, US President Barack Obama will now need to negotiate every minor detail of his domestic agenda with a…
My not-so-kosher Hanukkah
By Mehra Rimer GENEVA: This year I found myself the co-host of a not-so-kosher Hanukkah. What is a not-so-kosher Hanukkah? You will understand once you have read my story. I am…
Much more to Yemen than what we see in the news
By Alice Hackman LONDON: The British media’s focus on a young British Muslim woman who stabbed a British Member of Parliament last month once again shines a gloomy spotlight on Yemen.…
China state media says Nobel prize created global ‘chaos’
BEIJING: China's state media on Wednesday again rounded on the Nobel committee, calling their decision to honor jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo "sheer bravado" and saying it created "tremendous chaos" in…
UN, African leaders call on Gbagbo to step down
ABIDJAN: The top UN envoy in Ivory Coast told the Security Council that there was "only one winner" of the recent presidential election — and it's not the incumbent Laurent…
Surge in US students of Arabic, says study
WASHINGTON: Arabic was the fastest-growing foreign language for US university study last year, with enrollments growing by more than 46 percent compared to 2006, a study released Wednesday showed. Besides…
Distrust marks Iran nuclear standoff but dialogue takes hold
GENEVA: The talks on Iran's disputed nuclear program, which resumed this week after a tense 14 month break, have failed to dissipate deep distrust between world powers and Tehran, analysts…
ElBaradei calls on opposition to boycott 2011 presidential elections
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: Former IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei called on opposition groups to unite and boycott the upcoming 2011 presidential elections if they are not given guarantees that the elections…
Lawyer accuses Al-Ahram of defaming Pope
CAIRO: The head of the Egyptian Union for Human Rights Organization and Coptic Christian lawyer Naguib Gobrael filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General against Al-Ahram Group CEO Abdel…
Hackers strike back to support WikiLeaks founder
LONDON: WikiLeaks supporters struck back Wednesday at perceived enemies of founder Julian Assange, attacking the websites of Swedish prosecutors, the Swedish lawyer whose clients have accused Assange of sexual crimes…
