Libyan leader seeks EU cash to prevent “black Europe”
ROME: Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, on a visit to Rome, said Monday the EU should pay Libya "at least five billion euros a year" to stop clandestine immigration and avoid…
Dutch arrest two men on US flight amid reported terror plot
AMSTERDAM: Two US residents of Yemeni descent have been arrested in Amsterdam after flying in from Chicago and staging what officials fear may have been a dry run for a…
Armed insurgents, a quandary for Lebanon, US
BEIRUT: It started with a dispute over a parking space and erupted into a four-hour street war between Hezbollah and a rival militia, with masked snipers running through alleyways and…
4 American troops killed by bomb in Afghanistan
KABUL: NATO says four American troops have been killed in a roadside bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan. Tuesday's deaths come amid a particularly bloody period for American forces in the…
Vatican criticizes Libyan leader’s Islamic Europe call
ROME: A Vatican official criticized Tuesday Libyan leader Moamer Qaddafi’s reported call for Islam to become the religion of all of Europe, labeling it disrespectful to the Pope and Catholic…
Russian air crew kidnapped in Darfur freed, says army
KHARTOUM: Three Russian helicopter crew members kidnapped in Sudan's restive Darfur region have been freed, officials said Tuesday, with one report indicating force was used to secure their release. Sudanese…
Two more weeks to fully load fuel in Iran’s nuclear plant
TEHRAN: Iran will need another two weeks to complete the process of loading fuel into its Russian-built first nuclear power plant, atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi has said. The process…
US ends combat mission in Iraq as Biden in Baghdad
BAGHDAD: he US military was preparing to end its Iraq combat mission on Tuesday as Vice President Joe Biden met the war-torn nation's leaders in Baghdad after seven years of…
Mubarak hopes all parties seize the opportunity in upcoming Mideast peace talks
PARIS: President Hosni Mubarak said Monday he hoped "that all parties will seize this opportunity" in this week’s Mideast peace talks in the US. Mubarak met with French President Nicolas…
New campaign aims to counter US anti-Islam sentiment
WASHINGTON: A coalition of US Muslims launched a web-based campaign Monday aimed at countering what they called a rising tide of anti-Islamic sentiment and to show themselves as Americans who…