Libya says 5 foreign oil firms working to restore ops
PARIS: Five international oil companies have returned to Libya and are working on getting operations running again, the head of the ruling interim council's stabilization team, Aref Ali Nayed, said…
Court case reveals details of secret flights
WASHINGTON: The secret airlift of terrorism suspects and American intelligence officials to CIA-operated overseas prisons via luxury jets was mounted by a hidden network of US companies and coordinated by…
EU foreign ministers gather to discuss Middle East
SOPOT: The European Union's foreign policy chief said the bloc's foreign ministers are grappling at a meeting in Poland with whether to take a unified position on Palestinian statehood in…
Ten years after the mouse roared
By Joseph Nye CAMBRIDGE: Al-Qaeda’s attack on the United States 10 years ago was a profound shock to both American and international public opinion. What lessons can we learn a decade…
Will the sun still rise?
By Heizo Takenaka TOKYO: The scale of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March was far greater than even the authorities’ worst scenarios foresaw. Nearly six months later, the…
Europe’s shaky foundations
By Joschka Fischer BERLIN: Slowly, word is getting round — even in Germany — that the financial crisis could destroy the European unification project in its entirety, because it demonstrates, quite…
Palestinian protest disrupts Israeli concert in UK
LONDON: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators disrupted a concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the world-famous Proms concerts in London on Thursday, forcing the BBC to cut short a radio broadcast of…
Polanski’s ‘Carnage’ wows critics in Venice
Rounds of applause and riotous laughter met Roman Polanski's grotesque comedy of manners "Carnage" at the press screening in Venice. The screen adaptation of playwright Yasmina Reza's acclaimed Broadway play…
‘Queen of Pop’ Madonna says she can have it all
Madonna jokingly defended her title as "Queen of Pop,” quipping she would never give up her throne for love like King Edward VIII — the subject of her latest film…
Ten Kuwaiti lawyers to help defend Mubarak
CAIRO: Ten Kuwaiti lawyers will join the defense team for Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak in his trial on charges of corruption and authorizing the killing of protesters, the state…