Month: April 2011

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Authorities in Dubai are still investigating the death of a British tourist in the Gulf emirate although they insist the man died from suffocating on his own vomit in custody, not beatings. […] […]

An Iraqi immigrant was sentenced to 34 years in an Arizona prison for running over and killing his 20-year-old daughter because she became too Westernised. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Roland Steinle told Faleh Hassan […] […]

THE US State Department has been secretly financing opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, even as the Obama administration has tried to reach out to the autocratic leader’s regime. The Washington Post, citing previously undisclosed […] […]

BRITAIN was to hold urgent talks with the UN last night about the “dire” and worsening humanitarian situation in Libya, as Prime Minister David Cameron insisted it would not send ground forces into Libya despite […] […]

TWO Palestinian youths have been arrested for the murder in a West Bank settlement last month of five members of an Israeli family, including a three-month-old baby whose throat was slashed. Israeli security authorities announced […] […]

Raul Castro proposed term limits yesterday for Cuban politicians – including himself – a remarkable gesture on an island ruled for 52 years by him and his brother. The 79-year-old President lamented the lack of […] […]

Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, Europe is still divided on the use of nuclear energy. But the Fukushima crisis stirred new fears that could slow down nuclear expansion. “The accident at the Fukushima nuclear […] […]

The Libyan Government says Al Qaeda is involved in the nation’s uprising and has hinted that a “very well known leader” of the organisation is involved. “The involvement of Al Qaeda in the conflict in […] […]

TRIPOLI, LIBYA—Libyan government forces rained scores of rockets into residential districts of Misrata for a third consecutive day Saturday as ground troops tried to cut the city’s access to the port, its lifeline for food, […] […]