Alexander Hamilton’s Eurozone tour
By Harold James PRINCETON: Europe’s debt crisis has piqued Europeans’ interest in American precedents for federal finance. For many, Alexander Hamilton has become a contemporary hero. Perhaps one day his face…
Burma’s turn
By Joseph E. Stiglitz YANGON: Here in Myanmar (Burma), where political change has been numbingly slow for a half-century, a new leadership is trying to embrace rapid transition from within. The…
Turkey’s nation of faiths
By Bülent Arınç ANKARA: After decades of official neglect and mistrust, Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities, and thus to guarantee that…
Twitter adds Arabic and Hebrew home pages
By AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter on Tuesday launched Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi and Urdu versions of its website, further localizing of the popular one-to-many text messaging service. Twitter users have long…
UN sends aid chief to Syria as Obama rejects military force
DAMASCUS: The UN's humanitarian chief heads for Syria Wednesday to urge the regime to let aid into devastated protest cities, with US President Barack Obama insisting military intervention would be…
Iran’s talking point: ‘Dignity’ in nuclear work
By Brian Murphy / AP DUBAI: Days before Iran's just-completed parliamentary elections, the country's supreme leader gave what amounted to a pep rally on the Islamic Republic's nuclear views. Atomic technology…
Libya leader threatens ‘force’ to foil east autonomy bid
By Dominique Soguel / AFP TRIPOLI: Libyan leader Mustapha Abdel Jalil on Wednesday said he would defend national unity "with force" if necessary, after tribal leaders and a political faction declared…
S.Africa’s MTN struggles to get money out of Iran
By David Dolan and Helen Nyambura-Mwaura / Reuters JOHANNESBURG: South African mobile phone operator MTN Group said it is struggling to get its money out of Iran due to tougher Western…
Suspicion rises between Western advisers, Afghans
By Deb Riechmann / AP KABUL: "Shoulder to shoulder" is the mantra of the NATO-Afghan military partnership. Now, after Afghan soldiers and police turned their guns on their foreign partners during…
Arming Syrian rebels will lead to civil war, says Egypt FM
By AFP CAIRO: Egypt's Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr has warned that arming rebel fighters in Syria would lead to a civil war, his ministry said on Wednesday. Arming the…