19 May 2012 - 6:53pm
CAIRO: Egyptians are being called to vote on Wednesday in the historic first presidential election since Hosni Mubarak was toppled by the Arab Spring uprising last year.
The landmark poll will define the path of the Arab world's most populous nation, currently split between Islamists who scored big in legislative elections and members of...
19 May 2012 - 6:27pm
DILI: A quarter of East Timor's population was killed during Indonesia's 24-year occupation. As the nation celebrates a decade of independence, its leaders look to bury the past but for some resentment persists. Between the 1975 Indonesian invasion which followed the end of Portuguese colonial rule and the arrival of UN peacekeepers in 1999,...
18 May 2012 - 5:03pm
WASHINGTON: World leaders will huddle at Camp David Friday with the focus on Greece as it stumbles toward a possible eurozone exit that would hold wildly uncertain repercussions for the global economy.
Leaders from the Group of Eight industrialised nations will gather at the history-imbued US presidential retreat near Washington for a two-...
18 May 2012 - 3:07pm
UNITED NATIONS: Bodies are piling up in Syria while President Bashar al-Assad sits entrenched in his palace, but the international powers say there is no alternative to UN observers watching a non-existent ceasefire.Two bombs that exploded near UN convoys in the first month of the UN mission highlighted how the unarmed military monitors are on one...
17 May 2012 - 11:17pm
ATHENS: A caretaker government took office in Greece on Thursday to organise its second election in six weeks after an inconclusive May 6 vote as fears over a possible disorderly euro exit rocked Spain and Italy.
The May 6 election left Greece in limbo, pushing the financial markets and euro down sharply, and the new poll on June 17 offers...
17 May 2012 - 5:29pm
ATHENS: Greece's outgoing prime minister Lucas Papademos on Thursday warned that it would be disastrous for the country to heed mounting calls at home and unilaterally reject the tough terms of its EU-IMF bailout.
"Any modification...must be pursued in a spirit of consensus and with the full agreement of European peers," Papademos said in an open...
17 May 2012 - 2:46pm
WASHINGTON: White births in the United States are no longer in the majority, according to US Census Bureau data made public Thursday, a newspaper reported.
Minority races -- Hispanics, blacks and Asians and other mixed races -- accounted for 50.4 per cent of births over the year to July, accounting for a majority for the first time in US history...
17 May 2012 - 2:11pm
DAMASCUS: Syrian forces were accused Wednesday of summarily executing 15 civilians, as members of a UN team of observers were evacuated from a shelled town the day after a bomb blast hit their convoy.
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, however, accused the West of ignoring violence by terrorists and said he would demand an explanation from Annan...
16 May 2012 - 5:03pm
KUALA LUMPUR: The recent conviction of former US President George W Bush and several members of his administration by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, while largely ignored by foreign media, drew a variety of reactions from bloggers and blog readers.
Bush and seven others – Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, David...
16 May 2012 - 4:37pm
SANTIAGO: A new gold rush is sweeping through Latin America with devastating consequences, ravaging tropical forests and dumping toxic chemicals as illegal miners fight against big international projects.
With international market prices for metals high, informal "wildcat" mining has been on the rise in recent years in countries like...
