Drought hits Zimbabwe rural population hard
KWARA: One bag of maize, two big pumpkins, some watermelons and two small shopping bags of ground nuts is the only food the Togarepi family of seven is left with…
Heavy rains kill seven in Yemen
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 SANAA: Seven people were killed in a torrential rainstorm in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, a security official said on Thursday. Wednesday's downpour also injured…
US urges quick solutions before Sudan referendum
WASHINGTON: US envoy Scott Gration is telling the Sudanese there "is no time to waste" to solve all the problems before a 2011 referendum that could split Sudan into two…
Turkey jails 10 over deadly Kurdish rebel attack
DIYARBAKIR: A Turkish court has jailed 10 men for more than six years for passing intelligence to Kurdish rebels before a deadly attack on a military unit in 2007, a…
Nigeria's Umaru Yar'Adua dead, says president's office
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ABUJA: Nigeria president Umaru Yar'Adua has died, leaving Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to take over in this oil-rich nation riven by often-violent religious and…
Saudi denies Gulf security compromised by Iran spy suspects
RIYADH: Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz late on Wednesday rejected claims by a Kuwaiti member of parliament that a suspected Iranian spy cell held in the emirate…
Israel's Olmert says he is victim of 'witch-hunt'
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 JERUSALEM: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared in court on Tuesday to answer charges of corruption, claiming he is the victim of a…
Yemen 'bans Arab conference on Darfur crisis'
SANAA: Yemen on Wednesday slapped a last-minute ban on a meeting of Arab parliamentarians to discuss the crisis in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, the head of one group due to…
UN watchdog seeks ideas to get Israel to join nuclear treaty
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 VIENNA: UN atomic watchdog chief Yukiya Amano is asking IAEA member states for ideas on how to persuade Israel to sign up to the…
Saudi clerics square off over gender mixing
RIYADH: Conservative Muslim Saudi Arabia's battle over men and women freely mixing mounted on Tuesday as a powerful Islamic judge rebuked a hardline cleric over his attacks on anti-segregationist reformers.…