Off-field controversies plague African qualifiers
JOHANNESBURG: Just three months after the continent’s first World Cup was hailed…
Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO: Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize…
Yemen guard who killed Frenchman had “personal motives”
DUBAI: A Yemeni security guard who shot dead a Frenchman at an…
Somali pirates seize Taiwanese fishing vessel
NAIROBI: Somali pirates seized a Taiwanese fishing vessel with 14 crew members…
Peace talks impossible with this Israeli govt, says Abbas aide
RAMALLAH: A top aide to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday…
Behind propaganda, Iran fights fuel sanctions
LONDON: Iran's assertion that it has side-stepped some international sanctions and become…
Vimpelcom in talks with Algeria over Djezzy
MOSCOW: Vimpelcom is in talks with Algerian officials over the fate of…
Obama’s flawed peace process
MADRID: Since its inception in Oslo almost two decades ago, the Israeli-Palestinian…
Brady bonds for the Eurozone
WASHINGTON, DC: Today’s conventional view of the eurozone is that the crisis…