| |   Al-Qaeda chief urges Saudis to rise up
| AL-QAEDA chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged Saudis to follow Tunisians, Egyptians and Libyans in rising up against their rulers. | "Why don't you rise while you are the sons of the proud and strong tribes...
Al-Qaeda chief urges Saudis to rise up
| AL-QAEDA chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged Saudis to follow Tunisians, Egyptians and Libyans in rising up against their rulers. | "Why don't you rise while you are the sons of the proud and strong tribes...
Search for way out of Afghanistan central to Nato talks in Washington
| LARA MARLOWE | SUMMIT PREVIEW: The US will seek financial pledges just as Nato members are cutting defence budgets | NATO WILL focus on extricating itself from the longest war in its history, in Afghanistan, ...
Irish citizen off UN list for al-Qaeda sanctions
| MARY FITZGERALD, Foreign Affairs Correspondent | A LIBYAN-BORN naturalised Irish citizen has been removed from the UN Security Council's al- Qaeda sanctions list after three years of attempts to clear his nam...
Libya scrutinises election candidates
Tripoli - Libya faces the daunting task of vetting thousands of candidates wishing to compete in the June elections for a constituent assembly, with several bodies involved in the process. | “If a person ...
Security clouds speedy recovery of oil sector
| Tripoli: Increasing insecurity and disruptions are overshadowing Libya's speedy return to pre-war oil production, delaying much-needed foreign expertise and investment as well as threatening output. | Libya, ...
UAE current account surplus quadruples in 2011
| Dubai: The UAE's current account surplus quadrupled to Dh112.7 billion in 2011 as both crude and non-oil exports soared, the central bank's annual report showed on Thursday. | The surplus surged to 8.5 ...
Syrian opposition faces more fractures, infighting
| The head of Syria's main opposition council offered to resign Thursday after some members threatened to pull out of the umbrella group amid rampant infighting, striking a blow to efforts to present a united f...
Radicalism biggest threat to Algerian and Syrian regimes
| Both Algeria and Syria held elections this month – in Syria on May 7 and in Algeria on 10 May. Did these elections change the configuration of power in either country? There was evidently no such intent...
Nato's shameful role in Libya
| Libya was supposed to be different. The lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan had been learned, British Prime Minister David Cameron and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy insisted last year. This would be a r...
NATO in a Time of Austerity
| In his valedictory speech last year, then-U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates argued that the partnership between the North American and European sides of the NATO alliance needed a new impulse. Related in Ne...
Cannes 2012: Harvey Weinstein Gets Political By Buying Documentary About the Fall of Gaddafi
share Kevin WInter/Getty Images The Weinstein Co. co-chairman also is expected to pick up "Code Name Geronimo," a movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, which could be seen as an effort to boost President Ob...
Iran To Sue Google Over Dropping Persian Gulf Name
| TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran says it will sue Google over dropping the name of the Persian Gulf on Google Maps. | The threat comes after the famous search engine left the body of water between Iran and the Arabian Pe...
KUHNER: Jeremiah Wright can sink Obama
| He’s back. And this time, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright threatens to engulf President Obama in a major scandal - one that could doom his re-election. Edward Klein in his recent biography of Mr. Obama, “...
Summits Will Test Global Response
By CAROL E. LEE | WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama hosts world leaders this weekend at a pair of summits that represent the first test of how political upheavals among the world's major economies stand t...
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