Lawyer files complaint against police after Qena clashes
CAIRO: A lawyer from Qena filed a complaint at the prosecutor’s office claiming security forces raided a village last Tuesday, firing live rounds, rubber bullets and tear gas in clashes…
Mubarak’s Odious Debts
By Saifedean Ammous NEW YORK: A glance at Egypt’s public finances reveals a disturbing fact: the interest that the country pays on its foreign loans is larger than its budget for…
Free media in Tunisia, from illusion to reality
By Mourad Teyeb TUNIS: Immediately after the 14 January uprising, Tunisians experienced the illusion of a free and prosperous society. Tunisian journalists have enjoyed newfound freedom in print and broadcast media,…
Protecting the US-Bahraini relationship
By Cole Bockenfeld WASHINGTON, DC: The United States has maintained a key security relationship with Bahrain since 1947, demonstrated most visibly by the headquarters of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet located…
The ‘asset crisis’ of emerging economies
By Yu Yongding BEIJING: In theory, the difference between capital inflows and outflows in developing countries should be positive — they should be net capital importers, with the magnitude of the…
Syrian troops pursue armed defectors as toll soars
DAMASCUS: Syrian troops pursued armed defectors near the border with Turkey, sparking clashes in which 12 people died, and crossed into Lebanon to gun down a Syrian national, activists and…
Fighting rages in ‘final assault’ on Qaddafi hometown
SIRTE: Sirte was rocked by deadly street fighting on Friday in what troops from the new regime said was the final assault on Moamer Qaddafi's besieged hometown, with orders that…
Afghanistan marks 10 years since war
KABUL: Afghans on Friday marked 10 years since US warplanes began bombing the Taliban out of power, looking back on a decade of war that has cost thousands of lives…
Quartet to meet in effort to revive Mideast talks
BRUSSELS: Mideast negotiators will meet Sunday in Brussels as part of a wider effort to restart the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the European Union said Friday. "The purpose is to…
Nobel Peace Prize honors African, Arab women
SANAA: Declaring women's rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize on Friday to three indomitable campaigners against war and oppression — a Yemeni and…