Sudan army ‘war crimes’ in Abyei, say monitors
JUBA: Satellite images indicate evidence of "war crimes" committed by Sudan’s northern army in the contested Abyei region, a monitoring group said on Wednesday, as Sudanese President Omar al Bashir…
Bahrain hopes for normalcy with martial law lifted
MANAMA: Bahrain will lift a state of emergency next week that was imposed when the government suppressed a democracy protest movement in March with the help of Saudi and other…
Cogito ergo sum – shut up or put up
By Philip Whitfield Elvis crooned: Wise men say only fools rush in … Like a river flows … some things are meant to be. Are we to believe that villainy preordained…
Netanyahu’s border war
By Shlomo Ben Ami TEL AVIV: Binyamin Netanyahu’s furious rejection of US President Barack Obama’s proposal to use the 1967 borders as the basis for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian…
Rights, but not for Palestinians
By Saree Makdisi "We support a set of universal rights," declared US President Barack Obama in his long-awaited speech last week. "Those rights include free speech; the freedom of peaceful assembly;…
The derivatives market’s helpful enemies
By Luigi Zingales CHICAGO: The launch of two European antitrust investigations into the market for credit default swaps (CDS) might appear to be no more than a political vendetta against one…
Prosecutor refers Mubarak, sons and Hussein Salem to criminal court
CAIRO: The Prosecutor General referred Tuesday ousted president Hosni Mubarak, his sons Gamal and Alaa and businessman Hussein Salem to the Cairo Criminal Court on charges of killing protestors, misuse…
Proposed National Council includes three presidential hopefuls
CAIRO: The First Conference of Egypt announced Tuesday a list of 60 members representing various political and social streams to make up its proposed National Council, a civil group created…
Egypt’s transition tested by security breakdown
CAIRO: When Peter Matta went to check crops on his land on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital in the aftermath of an uprising that threw Hosni Mubarak from power,…
Single fathers call for amending custody law
CAIRO: Khalid Dinnawi says that since he and his wife agreed to divorce, his visitation rights only allow him to spend three hours a week with his four-year-old daughter. “Lara…