28 May 2012 - 2:25pm
LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out on Wednesday whether he can be extradited from Britain to Sweden, as the Supreme Court hands down its judgement at the end of a marathon legal battle.
Britain's highest court is Assange's final avenue of appeal under UK law, having been detained in December 2010 on a European arrest warrant....
28 May 2012 - 3:50am
UNITED NATIONS: A total of 108 people were killed in a massacre in the Syrian town of Houla, the head of the UN mission in Syria, Major General Robert Mood, told the UN Security Council Sunday, diplomats said.
Another 300 people were injured in the incident, Mood told the Security Council. Syrian authorities have denied responsibility for...
27 May 2012 - 6:46pm
PARIS: Europe is set for a rebound to growth the latest forecasts show, but unemployment will keep on rising, a conundrum that highlights the difficult economic reforms that still need to be made. Policy-makers have generally taken it as a given that growth produces jobs, but the relationship is not so simple given the complex interplay of...
25 May 2012 - 5:23pm
DAMASCUS: Syrian anti-regime activists on Friday took to the streets of Damascus and other major centres, monitors said, as armed rebels insisted that protection of peaceful protests is their top priority.
Protests took place at dawn on Friday in five residential neighbourhoods of the capital in support of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA), and to...
25 May 2012 - 4:28pm
CAIRO: Egypt looked set on Friday for a run-off presidential vote pitting Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi against former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq, according to tallies by the Islamist group.
The Brotherhood said its candidate was leading the race, with 90 per cent of the votes counted, ahead of Shafiq, the last prime minister...
25 May 2012 - 2:37pm
SINGAPORE: Voters in a Singaporean opposition fiefdom will vote Saturday in a by-election seen as a test of reforms launched by the ruling party, in power for 53 years, to address rising public discontent.The contest in Hougang, a rebellious ward held by the Workers' Party for 21 years, is Singapore's first by-election since the People's...
24 May 2012 - 5:31pm
ATHENS: Immigrants abound in the neighbourhood around this city's Agios Panteleimon church, but for now they are keeping out of sight.
Washed up here after fleeing poverty and violence in Asia and Africa, they now face beatings, insults and exclusion fuelled by Greece's own economic hardship.
Nazi graffiti have spread and weeds have taken...
24 May 2012 - 2:23pm
DAMASCUS: Syrian forces tried to storm the rebel bastion of Rastan Wednesday under cover of gunfire and shelling, reports said, as Damascus admitted sanctions were biting and the head of the main opposition bloc resigned.
The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) meanwhile denied it was behind the abduction of Lebanese Shiite pilgrims, an incident stoking...
23 May 2012 - 3:21pm
KABUL: Far from the bright lights of Chicago where world leaders met to shape NATO's exit from Afghanistan, one of the war's victims, 12-year-old Aleema, sums up her life in three words: "It's the worst."
Aleema, who has lived in a mud hovel in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul for four years since her family fled fighting in...
23 May 2012 - 2:20pm
MONTREAL: Only Mexico's middle class has grown over the past 30 years in North America, while income disparity has increased in Canada and the United States, according to a study here out Tuesday.
"Mexico's middle class has benefited from urbanisation, greater female employment, improved education and better social programmes," said...
