Women’s soccer clinic held to build program in Egypt
CAIRO: “They’ve come really because the concept of ‘soccer without borders’ is one we all understand,” commented United States ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey. Recently, the United States embassy in…
Getting corruption right
By Jagdish Bhagwati NEW YORK: I just returned from India, where I was lecturing to the Indian Parliament in the same hall where US President Barack Obama had recently spoken. The…
Egypt in danger as glory beckons Botswana
By David Legge / AFP JOHANNESBURG: Defending champions Egypt are teetering on the brink of elimination from the African Nations Cup going into the new year while Botswana are just one…
Obama names envoy to Syria, bypassing Congress
HONOLULU: President Barack Obama on Wednesday bypassed Congress to name the first US ambassador to Syria in nearly six years, part of his Middle East engagement drive criticized by Republican…
A time to spend
By J. Bradford DeLong BERKELEY: The central insight of macroeconomics is a fact that was known to John Stuart Mill in the first third of the nineteenth century: there can be…
British feared Israel would nuke Arabs: archives
By AFP LONDON: British diplomats feared Israel would use nuclear weapons in the event of another war with its Arab neighbors, secret files released Thursday showed. In 1980, British officials…
Belonging to the land, not owning it
By Sharon Rosen and Suheir Rasul JERUSALEM: Even back in those tempestuous years of the 1960s and 1970s when the possibility of peace was just a dream in the minds and…
Palestinians target settlements in UN resolution
RAMALLAH: The Palestinians plan to ask the UN Security Council in the coming days to declare Israeli settlements illegal and demand a halt to their construction, officials said Wednesday, in…
Ivory Coast opposition at hotel threatened
ABIDJAN: A fiery member of incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo's Cabinet urged supporters to seize a hotel where the internationally recognized winner of last month's election has been organizing a shadow…
Terror suspects in court over ‘Mumbai-style’ massacre plot
COPENHAGEN: Three terror suspects appeared in a Danish court Thursday in relation to a foiled "Mumbai-style" plot to massacre staff at a newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.…