Low-profile lawyer Molcho heads Israel peace talks team
JERUSALEM: Yitzhak Molcho, Israel's point man at the new Middle East talks, is a lawyer who shuns the limelight but has experience negotiating with the Palestinians on behalf of Prime…
Bollywood to make film on life of Jesus
It's a subject that has attracted directors from Cecil B. Demille to Martin Scorsese and Mel Gibson. Now Bollywood is getting in on the act with a film about the…
Saeb Erakat: media-savvy veteran of Mideast peace talks
RAMALLAH: Saeb Erakat, tapped to lead the Palestinian negotiating team in fresh peace talks that start Thursday, has long been both the savvy spokesman of the moderate leadership and a…
Investigations continuing into suspected ‘terrorist’ plot
THE HAGUE: Dutch prosecutors on Wednesday declined to give any details on the progress of their investigation into the actions of two Yemenis arrested in Amsterdam on suspicion of terrorism.…
Tony Blair in new memoir: I cried for Iraq war victims
Tony Blair's long-awaited memoir says the former British prime minister doesn't regret the Iraq war — although he wept for its victims — and carries revelations about the politician's alcohol…
No attacks from Kuwait against other states, says minister
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait plans to buy Patriot missiles from the United States but will not allow its territory to be a launch pad for attacks, the defense minister said in…
US deaths in Afghanistan hit record in 2010
KABUL: The number of US soldiers killed in the Afghan war in 2010 is the highest annual toll since the conflict began almost nine years ago, according to an AFP…
Bomb attack kills Afghan Muslim religious leader
KABUL: A bomb attack Wednesday in Afghanistan's volatile southern city of Kandahar killed the director of the local office for facilitating pilgrimages to Islamic holy sites, police said. One other…
For Gates the US war in Iraq is over but cloud remains
CAMP RAMADI: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that America's war in Iraq is over but admitted that the outcome will remain "clouded" by the reason it was waged…
Liberal ideas in Arab history of thought
One of the privileges of working in the international program of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty are the many opportunities to meet liberal organizations from all parts of the…
