Gates in Saudi Arabia to Discuss Iran The New York Times | RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here on Wednesday for talks with the Saudi royal family that senior defense officials said would be focused on Iran. | His visit follows recent trips to Riyadh by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as well as Gen. David ...
Sarkozy to take tanker fight to Obama Philadelphia Daily News | The Associated Press | PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will raise concerns that the U.S. Air Force's $35 billion tanker contract is anticompetitive when he visits President Barack Obama later this month, a spokesman said Wednesday. | EADS, the parent company of Airbus, had partnered with ...
A snapshot of women's roles: Fitful progress in the Middle East The Examiner | Female graduates at the Yemen- America Language Institute. Bill Heenan | International Women’s Day was hardly noticed in America this week. While women’s roles in society continue to evolve in some new and unexpected directions in ...
Trusting Terrorists, Abandoning Troops American Spectator | By Ben Lerner on 3.12.10 @ 6:08AM | I recently returned from a week-long media tour in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some of our finest soldiers and sailors are tasked with a difficult and thankless job: guarding dangerous detainee enemy combatants c...
Online censorship more sophisticated Khaleej Times Repressive regimes have stepped up efforts to censor the Internet and jail dissidents, Reporters Without Borders said in a study out . | China, Iran and Tunisia, which are on the group's "Enemies of the Internet" list, got more sophisticated at censo...
Nigeria charges 49 with murder over Christian villages massacres The Times | About 200 people have been arrested and 49 charged with murder after massacres at three Christian villages at the weekend, police in Nigeria said yesterday. | The announcement came as more details emerged of the violent outburst in the central Plat...
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Women's rights improving in Middle East The Siasat Daily | Washington, March 06: Women's rights have improved in 15 of 18 countries in the Middle East and North Africa over the past five years, although violence against women remains wid...
Iraq's Critical Election Khaleej Times Iraqis go to the polls on March 7 to elect a new Parliament for the second time under the country's permanent constitution of 2006. Many scholars believe that it is the second gene...
Obama's Hesitant Embrace of Human Rights The New York Times | As one would expect from so eloquent a leader, President Obama has brought about a marked improvement in presidential rhetoric on human rights in comparison with his predecessor....
Countdown for Million’s Poet finale starts Middle East Online | ABU DHABI – A Kuwaiti poet managed to make it to the final phase of the Arab world’s biggest Nabati poetry competition “Million’s Poet” Wednesday night in Abu Dhabi. | The jury panel granted poet Nasser Al Ajami the highest points for delivering a ...
Report: Iran sentences professor to 6 years The Siasat Daily | Tehran, March 11: An Iranian appeals court sentenced a university professor to six years in prison for suspected involvement in the country's postelection turmoil, local media reported Thursday. | Several pro-reform newspapers, including the Bahar ...
US soldiers kill Iraqi couple in Baghdad The Siasat Daily | Baghdad, March 11: US soldiers kill an Iraqi couple for unknown reasons to mark the latest of ordeals the US military presence has imposed on Iraqis since the invasion of the country in 2003. | Iraqi interior ministry officials said that US soldier...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi denounces new law Al Jazeera | Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's opposition leader, has denounced the military government's new laws passed earlier this week that bar her from running for office as "unjust" and "repressive". | Commenting for the first time since the set of five laws were passed on Monday, she said she is surprised but undaunted by the laws which will also bar her fr...
Chinese minister insists Google obey the law USA Today Posted | Comment | Recommend | | | By Vincent Thian, AP Li Yizhong, Chinese Minister of Industry and Information Technology, speaks during a press conference in Beijing Friday, March 12, 2010. Li, China's top Internet regulator, insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or "pay the consequences," giving no sign of ...
