22 May 2012 - 5:56pm
CAIRO: A buzz of excitement swept through this city Tuesday, a day before its first presidential election since an uprising overthrew Hosni Mubarak, ushering in a tumultuous military-led transition.
"This is the first time I'll be going to vote in any election, and it's definitely a big deal. My family has been talking about it for weeks," said...
22 May 2012 - 5:12pm
SANAA: Yemen's military has cancelled a parade planned for Tuesday to mark the reunification of the country after nearly 100 soldiers were killed in a massive suicide attack claimed by Al-Qaeda, an official said.
Instead, a symbolic ceremony will be held at the Defence and Aviation college here, attended by President Abdrabuh Mansur...
22 May 2012 - 3:40pm
SYDNEY: Some 50 per cent of Australians want an end to the nation's immigration programme because they believe the country has too many people, a poll showed Tuesday.
The survey of 2,000 people, conducted for the tabloid Sydney Daily Telegraph newspaper, found 51 per cent thought "our population is too high (and) we should stop immigration"....
22 May 2012 - 12:18am
DAMASCUS: UN chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Monday that the search for peace in Syria was at a pivotal moment" and expressed strong concerns of an all-out civil war, as a five-week-old truce was broken yet again.
Regime forces ambushed and killed a group of army deserters in a suburb here, a watchdog said, as bloodshed related to the Syrian...
21 May 2012 - 4:45pm
LILLE: French prosecutors on Monday opened a preliminary investigation into accusations that disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn took part in a gang rape in the United States.Prosecutors here, where Strauss-Kahn and three others have been charged in a pimping case, said the probe centred on an incident that could be described as gang...
21 May 2012 - 2:36pm
KABUL: As NATO discusses its exit from Afghanistan at a summit in Chicago, Afghans fear that a meltdown in their corruption-plagued economy could follow the consequent drop in foreign funding.
Cash that is desperately needed in one of the world's poorest economies is already making its own way out -- $4.6 billion left through Kabul airport in...
21 May 2012 - 2:11pm
CAIRO: They came out in droves united in their desire to overthrow Hosni Mubarak, but on the eve of Egypt's landmark presidential election, the youth that spearheaded that revolt are divided over how to keep it alive.
After a tumultuous, sometimes bloody, transition following the strongman's fall, activists say they are tired of the constant...
20 May 2012 - 10:23pm
CAMP DAVID: G8 leaders said they want debt-stricken Greece to stay in the eurozone at a Camp David summit as the group papered over deep-seated divisions about how best to tackle the eurozone crisis.
With the future of Europe's currency union in doubt, leaders of the world's largest economies called on Greece Saturday to stick to the terms...
20 May 2012 - 10:06pm
RIGA: A running joke in Latvia pokes fun at the exodus of young talent from the ex-Soviet Baltic state, but experts insist it is no laughing matter as the tiny EU newcomer struggles with demographic disaster.
"We have a joke that in 2030 the last Latvian can switch off the lights at Riga airport," Aldis Austers, chairman of the European...
19 May 2012 - 11:12pm
WASHINGTON: Russia's non-intervention stance on Syria remained unchanged on Saturday as G8 leaders looked to hammer out a joint declaration to put greater pressure on President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
"There cannot be any change of regime through force," the Kremlin's Africa envoy, Mikhail Margelov said, adding that G8 leaders meeting at...
