8 Dec 2011 - 12:33pm
MEXICO CITY, December 7, 2011 (AFP) - Mexican authorities said Wednesday they foiled an audacious bid by one of toppled Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi's sons to smuggle himself and his family into the country as the regime cracked.
Government Secretary Alejandro Poire said intelligence officials uncovered an elaborate plan, at the height of...
8 Dec 2011 - 12:17pm
BANGKOK, December 8, 2011 (AFP) - A court in Thailand on Thursday jailed a Thai-born American for two-and-a-half years for defaming the monarchy -- a sentence that the United States criticised as "severe".
The conviction of Joe Wichai Commart Gordon -- who appeared in court in shackles -- is the latest in a series of cases under the kingdom...
7 Dec 2011 - 5:39pm
ATHENS: After months of wrangling, soul searching and violent protests, Greece has finally passed its 2012 budget -- but now comes the hard part, living with it as the economy slumps and the eurozone struggles for survival.
"The situation in Europe is becoming more and more difficult and the time for crucial decisions is coming," business...
7 Dec 2011 - 5:15pm
BAGHDAD: Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi is due here on Thursday to discuss the regional bloc's sanctions against Syria, which Iraq refuses to enforce, a foreign ministry official told AFP. "He will hold talks with Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, particularly on Syria," the official said. Zebari said late November that Baghdad expected...
7 Dec 2011 - 5:12pm
CAIRO, December 7, 2011 (AFP) - Islamist party the Muslim Brotherhood said on Wednesday it had won two thirds of individual seats up for grabs in the opening round of Egypt's first post-Mubarak election.
"The FJP has won 36 seats out of 54, or 66.6 percent of seats," it announced on its Facebook page, referring to its Freedom and Justice...
6 Dec 2011 - 10:57pm
BRUSSELS: European leaders, under threat of debt downgrades across the eurozone, are rushing to deliver a credible remedy to the crisis this week but as time runs out analysts warn there will be no quick fix.
A Franco-German drive to enforce tough budget discipline in the eurozone is long overdue but economists say it will do little to end...
6 Dec 2011 - 4:50pm
PARIS: A shock warning that almost the entire eurozone including Germany is sliding towards a debt downgrade left EU leaders with just three days on Tuesday to bridge big splits over the debt crisis
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It also put an icy hand around confident statements by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy that they want treaty...
6 Dec 2011 - 11:20am
WASHINGTON, December 5, 2011 (AFP) - President Barack Obama's administration on Monday rejected Republican calls to fire the US ambassador to Belgium after he said that the Middle East conflict was partly to blame for anti-Semitism.
Ambassador Howard Gutman, who is Jewish and the son of a Holocaust survivor, said in a speech that a new type...
5 Dec 2011 - 6:07pm
LONDON: The High Court here ruled Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can apply to the Supreme Court in an attempt to block his extradition to Sweden over rape allegations. Two judges ruled that Assange's case raised a question of general public importance which should be decided by the highest court in Britain as quickly as possible...
5 Dec 2011 - 3:45pm
KUALA LUMPUR: A letter written by former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and addressed to the leaders of three African countries, asking for the arrest of former US President George W Bush for war crimes, has attracted the attention of international peace activists and observers.
The BRussells Tribunal, an organisation that bills itself as...
