Britain to airlift Egyptians fleeing Libya
LONDON: Britain is to airlift home thousands of Egyptians from Tunisia's border with Libya, Prime Minister David Cameron said, with the operation to get under way Wednesday. Escaping the unrest…
A woman leading change in Yemen
By Alice Hackman LONDON: With two presidents unseated in Tunisia and Egypt and highly publicized protests across Libya, the recent demonstrations in Yemen are catching the world’s attention. The escalating…
Is Syria the next domino?
By Ribal Al-Assad LONDON: With the Tunisian and Egyptian regimes gone and street protests roiling cities from Algiers to Tehran, many people are now wondering which domino might fall next.…
Global justice and military intervention
By Peter Singer MELBOURNE: The world has watched in horror as Libya’s Colonel Muammar Qaddafi uses his military to attack protesters opposed to his rule, killing hundreds or possibly thousands…
The fine line between freedom and anarchy
By Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor The year 2011 will forever be known as the year of revolt; I just pray that it doesn’t become the century’s most revolting. There are…
Military sentences detained protester to five years in prison
By Mai Shams El-Din CAIRO: Protester Amr Abdullah El-Behairy was sentenced to five years in prison by a military court for attacking an officer during the army’s violent crackdown on…
Egypt’s emergency law must be scrapped, victim says
By Yasmine Saleh/Reuters CAIRO: Mohamed Mohamed, a 24-year-old ceramics worker, says he was seized by police while acting as a volunteer at the Tahrir Square protest to oust Hosni Mubarak,…
Egypt’s government turns a new page — on Facebook
* The official Facebook page of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. # @ CAIRO: They described it as a “Facebook Revolution” due to the momentum garnered on the social…
Devil gets his due at Bolivia’s raucous Carnival
Brazil's famous Carnival celebration may steal the world's attention, but an equally riveting spectacle in Bolivia this week melds indigenous and Christian traditions, and has the devil at the center…
Oscar win highlights plight of Africans in Israel
Students at the Bialik-Rogozin school in a rundown Tel Aviv neighborhood have survived genocide, war and famine. But they were all smiles on Monday after learning that a documentary about…
