The Caucasus imperative
By Vartan Oskanian YEREVAN: Summit season is upon us. Following the G-20 meetings in Seoul and the NATO summit in Portugal, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will hold…
Bridging sectarian divides in Pakistan
By Qurat ul ain Siddiqui KARACHI: A blast at a mosque in Darra Adam Khel in northwest Pakistan earlier this month killed more than 60 people. Recent attacks like this one…
Israel to vote on center to detain Africans
JERUSALEM: Israel's Cabinet, hoping to stanch the illegal flow of Africans through the country's porous southern border with Egypt, is scheduled to vote Sunday on a proposal to build a…
HRW condemns Egypt ‘repression’ ahead of election
By AFP CAIRO: Human Rights Watch accused Egypt on Wednesday of repression and of intimidating opposition candidates in the run-up to Sunday's parliamentary election, which it said made a free and…
Turkish PM urges Lebanon to overcome crisis
BEIRUT: Visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged Lebanon's rival parties to unite and overcome a crisis linked to a UN probe into the assassination of the…
Israeli troops raze mosque, buildings in West Bank
KHIRBET YARZA: Israeli troops razed a mosque and more than 10 other structures in two areas of the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinians sources said. Most of the demolition…
Iraq president to name Maliki for second term as PM
BAGHDAD: Nuri Al-Maliki was awarded a second term as Iraq's prime minister on Thursday, signalling an end may finally be in sight to the country's eight month impasse following a…
Israelis hold ‘funeral’ over rise in domestic violence
TEL AVIV: Scores of marchers carrying black coffins held a mock funeral on Thursday to raise the alarm over the growing number of women being killed in incidents of domestic…
Afghan prosecutors open criminal probe into vote
KABUL: Top Afghan prosecutors said Thursday they had arrested senior election officials and opened new criminal investigations into vote fraud, dismissing as "premature" the announcement of final results. Mohammad Ishaq…
Stuxnet could add to Iran’s enrichment problems, say experts
VIENNA: A mysterious halt in Iran's uranium enrichment activities earlier this month, as revealed in a new report by the UN atomic watchdog, may have been due to a cyber…
