31 Jan 2012 - 6:38pm
WASHINGTON: Senior Egyptian military officers visited the United States Monday for talks as both sides try to defuse a deepening row that has seen a number of American citizens hole up at the US embassy in Cairo.
Egypt's military rulers, charged with leading the transition to democratic rule, have slapped a travel ban on several US citizens...
31 Jan 2012 - 4:36pm
ATHENS: Greece aims to complete a debt writedown with private investors and an accord on a 130-billion euro ($171-billion) eurozone bailout by the end of the week, the Greek prime minister said on Tuesday.
"Discussions will continue in the coming days and the aim is to achieve a deal in parallel with the completion of consultations on...
31 Jan 2012 - 2:39pm
LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's two-day hearing at England's Supreme Court gets underway Wednesday, in the latest stage of his lengthy battle against extradition to Sweden to face rape allegations. If the court rejects his case, the 40-year-old Australian will have exhausted all his options in Britain but he could still make a last...
31 Jan 2012 - 2:11pm
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council braced for a showdown over Syria on Tuesday, with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leading a Western charge pressing Russia to back action to stop the violence.
Amid dozens of new deaths in Syria and opposition warnings of a potential massacre, Clinton, the head of the Arab League and the British...
30 Jan 2012 - 4:21pm
AMMAN: Jordan's King Abdullah II, who celebrates his 50th birthday on Monday, begins the 14th year of his reign facing urgent popular calls to fight corruption and carry out genuine reforms.
It has not been easy for Abdullah since ascending the throne on February 7, 1999, after his father King Hussein died -- due to the 9/11 attacks, the...
30 Jan 2012 - 2:34pm
BRUSSELS: European leaders bid to close a chapter in the debt crisis Monday with a pact on balanced budgets, but the eurozone Achilles heel that is Greece threatens to distract them once again.
Heads of state and government from the 27 European Union states gather from 3:00 pm (1400 GMT) here, with Belgium on strike against further spending...
29 Jan 2012 - 11:45pm
JAKARTA: The death toll from heavy rains and strong winds in Indonesia has risen to 14, an official said Sunday, with the victims of a tropical cyclone crushed by falling trees.
"In total, 14 people died, 60 people were injured," National Disaster Management Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in a text message to AFP.
"The 14...
29 Jan 2012 - 11:19pm
LONDON: British detectives on Saturday searched the offices of Rupert Murdoch's The Sun and arrested four journalists and a policeman in a widening probe into the bribing of police for information. The development finally drags Britain's biggest-selling newspaper into the turmoil at Murdoch's empire, after its stablemate the News of the World...
28 Jan 2012 - 9:18pm
PARIS: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda urged the eurozone to get to grips quickly with its debt crisis on Saturday, branding it the biggest threat to the global economy.
"It is indeed the major source of risks for the global economy," Noda, speaking via videolink from Tokyo, told the Davos forum in Switzerland.
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28 Jan 2012 - 3:56pm
TEHRAN: A raft of Western economic sanctions on Iran over its controversial nuclear programme are increasingly stifling the lives of ordinary Iranians, hit by rising inflation and growing isolation. EU and US banking sanctions put in place 18 months ago, and reinforced on Monday, have fuelled Iran's runaway inflation and triggered a collapse...
