8 Mar 11 - BAHRAIN'S crown prince yesterday warned all sides against escalating a standoff with disgruntled majority Shi'ites seeking an elected government in the Gulf Arab kingdom, asking for patience ahead of a national dialogue.Bahrain suffered its...
8 Mar 11 - AROUND 500 protesters took to the streets of central Baghdad yesterday to mark one year since Iraq's parliamentary polls, railing against what they said were politicians' broken promises.The protesters gathered at the Iraqi capital's Tahrir Square,...
8 Mar 11 - THE administration of President Barack Obama has come under mounting pressure to arm rebels facing an emboldened and regrouping military, amid charges Washington missed recent chances to oust Libya's strongman.Obama has insisted that all options,...
8 Mar 11 - GOVERNMENT forces seeking to dislodge rebels from Libya's strategically important coast struck at an oil town yesterday amid quickening efforts to prevent more humanitarian suffering and a mass refugee exodus.Offering a potential olive branch to...
8 Mar 11 - MORE than one million people fleeing Libya and inside the country need humanitarian aid, the United Nations said yesterday. The figures were issued by the world body's aid coordinator Valerie Amos as a refugee crisis built up around the borders of...
8 Mar 11 - FRANCE'S finance ministry was subject to a cyberattack in December targeting information related to its presidency of the Group of 20 nations, officials said yesterday.Budget Minister Francois Baroin said the infiltration of some 150 computers did...
8 Mar 11 - KUWAIT braced for demonstrations against the government today as youth groups promised to take their campaign to oust the prime minister to the streets of the oil-rich emirate.The Fifth Fence youth group has been using microblogging website Twitter...
8 Mar 11 - THOUSANDS of community policemen rallied in Algeria yesterday to demand a pay raise, breaking through heavy security to reach parliament in a rare mass show of dissent in the tightly controlled country.The protesters, estimated by organisers to...
8 Mar 11 - FRANKFURT airport yesterday denied a media report that security cameras malfunctioned in last week's attack on US troops by an alleged Muslim extremist that killed two airmen."The cameras here worked, and the footage recorded has been given to...
8 Mar 11 - BRITAIN'S Prince Andrew was facing calls to quit his role as unpaid trade ambassador yesterday amid media revelations about his links to a convicted sex offender and the ousted Tunisian president.Ministers defended the work done by Queen Elizabeth...
8 Mar 11 - A TURKISH court charged four journalists and a writer yesterday with involvement in an alleged plot to overthrow the government, but prosecutors said the detentions were not due to their journalism.A day earlier two journalists who have written...
8 Mar 11 - PEOPLE were fleeing yesterday from a town captured by forces allied with Alassane Ouattara in western Ivory Coast as fresh clashes in Abidjan reportedly killed three people in an escalation of a dispute over the presidency.Fighters took control of...
8 Mar 11 - Chirac goes on trial for corruptionPARIS: Jacques Chirac becomes the first former French president to go before a judge when his month-long trial for corruption during his time as mayor of Paris in the 1990s begins on Monday. Chirac, 78 and one of...
8 Mar 11 - CLASHES between the southern army and a rebel militia group in south Sudan's Upper Nile state have left more than 40 people dead, including seven soldiers, southern army spokesman Philip Aguer said yesterday. "There was fighting on Sunday...
8 Mar 11 - IRAN and Syria found themselves in the spotlight yesterday as the UN nuclear watchdog convened for its traditional week-long spring meeting.The International Atomic Energy Agengy's 35-member board of governors was set to discuss two new reports...
7 Mar 11 - BRITAIN was yesterday negotiating to secure the release of a special forces unit believed to have been captured by rebels in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a human rights activist said.Last Saturday the Geneva-based Human Rights Solidarity...
7 Mar 11 - AIR strikes targeted rebel positions yesterday and outgunned insurgents were forced to retreat but Libyan TV claims that Muammar Gaddafi forces had retaken key towns in a major offensive were swiftly denied.The rebels said they had withdrawn from...
7 Mar 11 - MUAMMAR GADDAFI said he wanted the United Nations or the African Union to probe the unrest rocking Libya and promised investigators free access, in an interview published yesterday.The strongman, making his first such demand since the outbreak of...
7 Mar 11 - THOUSANDS of demonstrators massed yesterday at Manama's Al-Qudaibiya Palace, where Bahrain's cabinet meets, chanting slogans against the tiny Gulf state's government and King Hamad.White-helmeted police with riot shields stood behind one gate,...
7 Mar 11 - YEMEN'S opposition movement vowed yesterday to intensify protests against the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, after the embattled leader refused to resign by the end of the year.With violence gripping the strategic US ally on multiple fronts...
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