Egypt's president criticizes Israeli construction in east Jerusalem, telling his Israeli counterpart that settlements in the disputed sector of the holy city threaten to anger the entire Muslim world.
China pledged on Friday to continue its support of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations, but a high-ranking army official said the missions will also need major reforms to meet new challenges. General Chen Bingde, chief...
The article published below is by Hisila Yami , a leading figure in the United Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M). Yami is the author of People's War and Women's Liberation in Nepal . This article is abridged from...
news.am, Armenia Nov 21 2009 Things get going: weekly review 09:45 / 11/21/2009Domestic policy After a long interval, this week has proved to be a politically eventful one. For months `Kocharyan's people' had been waiting for...
Of course… Haaretz: Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, is expected to propose to Turkey that it resume its mediation role in peace talks between Israel and Syria, in exchange for a return to more...
From ANI Geneva, Nov.21: United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leaders and cadres will be given safe passage and a chance to return to mainstream society only if they give up the path of violence and unconditionally lay down...
By FOONG THIM LENG and MARTIN VENGADESAN Now that Chin Peng has finally apologised for his actions, some may feel it is time to forgive him but others offer very strong reasons why he should not be I am against the return of...
The Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have invited Japan, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia to form part of the International Contact Group (ICG) that will guarante...
Bosnia’s gradual disintegration would appear inevitable. The only question is how the international community will, and should, react to this process. A new state – “Republika Srpska” - is shortly to be born in South Eastern...
Taiwanese Premier Wu Den-yih has urged the mainland to remove missiles targeting the island, to pave the way for peace talks between the sides. Beijing needed to build deeper trust with Taiwan by removing the rockets as well as...