20 Mar 10 -
THE Middle East Quartet urged Israel yesterday to stop building settlements and set a bold target for a final deal with the Palestinians by 2012 as it tried to kickstart the stalled peace process. But Israel's foreign minister whose...
20 Mar 10 -
A GROUP once best known for rowdy parties in graffiti-plastered Paris squats is poised to join the political mainstream, propelled by anger at injustices in the French capital's housing market. Julien Bayou, who helped found the grassroots...
20 Mar 10 -
SENEGAL President Abdoulaye Wade marked 10 years in office yesterday by delivering a staunch defence of his record, saying he could not recollect a single failure during his decade in power. Wade, whose election on March 19, 2000, ended...
20 Mar 10 -
THE White House is nearing a bipartisan deal with US lawmakers to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by putting more detainees on trial before military commissions, a report said yesterday. The prospective deal would allow military tribunals...
20 Mar 10 -
IRANIAN opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi vowed a "year of perseverance" in his fight against the government, in an Internet message yesterday marking the Persian new year. Mousavi, who remains steadfast in rejecting the...
20 Mar 10 -
HUMAN traffickers and smugglers in Ethiopia have taken advantage of the upcoming World Cup, duping victims into believing that South Africa has created huge employment opportunities, says a government report, Illegal Migration: Causes,...
20 Mar 10 -
YEMENI President Ali Abdullah Saleh declared an end to a long-running war with northern Shia rebels that drew in neighbouring Saudi Arabia last year, according to a television interview to be aired yesterday. But the president, under...
20 Mar 10 -
RUSSIA yesterday warned Iran it was missing out on a chance to start a broad dialogue, as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton again sought to win the Kremlin's assent for tougher stance on Tehran. Iran's defiance over its nuclear...
20 Mar 10 -
EUROPEAN UNION nations are determined to take action to end Iran's "unacceptable" jamming of satellite broadcasts and Internet censorship, according to a text agreed by European ambassadors in Brussels. "The EU calls on the...
20 Mar 10 -
PRESIDENT Barack Obama yesterday hailed this weekend's "historic" congressional vote on his health plan as the culmination of a century of struggle, at a euphoric campaign-style rally. "Right now, we are at the point where...
