Israel, Palestinians must return to talks: Rudd, Moussa
CAIRO: Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd and Arab League chief Amr Moussa on Friday made a joint call for an urgent resumption of direct peace talks between Israel and the…
Egypt’s opposition to protest ‘null and void’ parliament
By Marwa Al-A'asar CAIRO: About 15 opposition groups and parties will join forces Sunday afternoon outside the High Court of Justice in Downtown Cairo to protest the alleged illegitimacy of…
OPEC differ on need for more oil supply
LONDON: Two of the world's most influential oil forecasters gave contrasting outlooks for 2011 on Friday, with the consumer's watchdog anticipating robust demand and producer group OPEC saying supply was…
Assange moved to isolation in jail as WikiLeaks continue
LONDON/ SYDNEY: Police moved WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to the segregation unit of a London jail for his safety, his lawyer said Friday as new cables showed the US suspects…
The Arab World’s silent feminist revolution
By Gema Martín-Muñoz MADRID: Arab societies often appear rigid and resistant to change to outsiders, because what they see is these countries’ ruling regimes, which mostly do resist development and change.…
The ‘rule of restitution’ as a paradigm for resolving conflicts
By Pinchas Leiser JERUSALEM: The Mishna, the Talmud and Halachic literature all mention a legal innovation by the Sages, contradicting a Biblical Law, which stipulates that a person must restore that…
Muslim culture, British identity
By Arwa Ibrahim LONDON: On Nov. 30 the Chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum, Lord Altaf Sheikh, urged the British Muslim community to join the armed forces and police in order…
The Blackmail Path to Power
By Abdul Tejan-Cole ABIDJAN: On Dec. 2, Côte d’Ivoire’s Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) declared opposition leader Alassane Ouattara the winner of the country’s November presidential election with 54.1 percent of the…
Iran TV to air stoning woman ‘confession’
TEHRAN: Iranian television released pictures of the woman at the centre of an outcry over her sentence to death by stoning for adultery ahead of a broadcast on Friday in…
Hundreds of Iraq Christians mark church siege carnage
BAGHDAD: Hundreds of Iraqi Christians attended mass on Friday at a Baghdad church where 46 worshippers died in an Al-Qaeda siege, marking 40 days since the killings that sparked an…
