What do AIDS activists want more money for?
Activists invaded the platform at the International AIDS conference in Vienna last week to demand more money — but for what? With drugs now less than $100 per person per…
Russia’s great gas game
BERLIN: Russia and the European Union are geopolitical neighbors. Whether or not their relationship is in fact neighborly, rather than tense and confrontational, is of critical importance to both. Unless…
Filipino movie gatecrasher searches for salvation
Indie film director Jim Libiran was looking for personal salvation when he gate-crashed Philippine cinema with a movie tackling Manila's violent gangland culture. Three years later the former…
Centuries-old bathhouse provides relief from Gaza turmoil
GAZA CITY: In the steamy depths of a centuries-old bathhouse beneath Gaza's crowded streets, Murad Awad channels positive energy by prying toxins from tired flesh. The bathhouse, known as Hamam…
Minister says no niqab in universities this year
CAIRO: Egypt’s Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research said that no female student wearing the niqab will enter the university premises in the next academic year. In a meeting…
‘We will not back down,’ says wanted Bedouin Moussa El-Dilh
CAIRO: A Bedouin spokesman wanted by authorities has vowed that Bedouin outcasts will not back down in their struggle with the state in the area of Wadi Amr in Central…
British PM calls Gaza ‘prison camp’
ANKARA: British Prime Minister David Cameron Tuesday urged Israel to lift the blockade of the Gaza Strip, slamming the current state of the Palestinian enclave as a "prison camp." "Let…
Iraq political crisis deepens as parliament session scrapped
BAGHDAD: Iraq's parliament on Tuesday postponed indefinitely what would have been only its second session since a March election, extending a political deadlock that has plagued the country. The delay…
Four soldiers killed in south Yemen ambush, says official
SANAA: Four Yemeni soldiers were killed and nine others wounded in an ambush in the southern province of Lahij, a security official told AFP on Tuesday. "Four soldiers were killed…
Hamas calls on Abbas to reject direct peace talks
GAZA CITY: Hamas on Tuesday warned Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas not to relaunch direct peace talks with Israel, which it said "would only serve the Zionist occupation." "We warn (Abbas)…