Yemen’s Saleh likely to fight, not quit, say analysts
DUBAI: Defiant Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is likely to ignore a non-binding UN Security Council resolution asking him to quit, feeding fears of an all-out civil war, analysts say.…
Review slams US training of Iraqi police
BAGHDAD: A US State Department program to train Iraqi police lacks focus, could become a "bottomless pit" of American money and may not even be wanted by the Iraqi department…
SCAF member calls on Yosri Fouda to resume TV show
CAIRO: The ruling military council called upon TV anchor Yosri Fouda to resume his suspended program “Akher Kalam” in a phone interception with ONTV channel Sunday night. Ismail Etman, member…
Minister maintains pressure against NGO external funding
CAIRO: As part of an ongoing investigation into the funding sources of local NGOs, the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation revealed on Sunday that 12 Egyptian NGOs had received…
Islamists claim lead in landmark Tunisia vote
TUNIS: Tunisia's main Islamist party claimed Monday to have captured about 40 percent of the vote in the country's first free polls, as the cradle of the Arab Spring basked…
Libya aims for gov’t in two weeks, forms Qaddafi probe
BENGHAZI: Libya's interim leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil set a two-week target Monday for the country to have a new government and said a commission of inquiry will probe Moamer Qaddafi's…
The language of global protest
By Jan-Werner Mueller PRINCETON: The protest movements that have flared up across the West, from Chile to Germany, have remained curiously undefined and under-analyzed. Some speak of them as the greatest…
Occupy the mortgage lenders
By Simon Johnson WASHINGTON, DC: Participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement are right to argue that the big banks have never properly been investigated for the mortgage origination, aggregation, and…
The bogey of fiscal stimulus
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram NEW YORK: After the economic disaster of 2008-2009, people are understandably wary of the devastation that yet another financial crisis can wreak. But the likelihood of another…
Making Israel-Palestine a good place to live
By Michael Felsen BOSTON, Massachusetts: There’s something very disconcerting about a recently conducted Israeli public opinion poll. The survey, undertaken for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth at the beginning of this…