Kuwaiti court hears objection to Zain sale
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwaiti court on Wednesday heard an urgent lawsuit by a leading Zain telecom investor objecting to a planned sale of a majority stake to the UAE's Etisalat, a…
UN food agency chief warns against cereal speculators
KHARTOUM: World governments and the private sector must bolster food output to thwart speculators who are pushing up the prices of cereals and other basic foodstuffs, the head of the…
Morocco: Paths to progress
By Oxford Business Group Optimism in Morocco’s business environment, seen in recent World Bank plaudits for its measures to protect investors, is likely to be further boosted by a series of…
Haiti’s moment
NEW YORK: Fortune has not been kind to Haiti. The pain and suffering arising from last year’s earthquake was already enormous, and has since been compounded by Hurricane Tomas…
Obama’s vision thing
By Shlomo Ben Ami MADRID: Humbled by the Republicans’ landslide mid-term election victory, US President Barack Obama will now need to negotiate every minor detail of his domestic agenda with a…
My not-so-kosher Hanukkah
By Mehra Rimer GENEVA: This year I found myself the co-host of a not-so-kosher Hanukkah. What is a not-so-kosher Hanukkah? You will understand once you have read my story. I am…
Much more to Yemen than what we see in the news
By Alice Hackman LONDON: The British media’s focus on a young British Muslim woman who stabbed a British Member of Parliament last month once again shines a gloomy spotlight on Yemen.…
China state media says Nobel prize created global ‘chaos’
BEIJING: China's state media on Wednesday again rounded on the Nobel committee, calling their decision to honor jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo "sheer bravado" and saying it created "tremendous chaos" in…
UN, African leaders call on Gbagbo to step down
ABIDJAN: The top UN envoy in Ivory Coast told the Security Council that there was "only one winner" of the recent presidential election — and it's not the incumbent Laurent…
Surge in US students of Arabic, says study
WASHINGTON: Arabic was the fastest-growing foreign language for US university study last year, with enrollments growing by more than 46 percent compared to 2006, a study released Wednesday showed. Besides…
