Teheran - Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad announced today in Tehran that the 15 British service personnel detained in the Persian Gulf on March 23 will be "pardoned" and released.
(Full Story)Source: rferl.org
- Wednesday, April 4, 2007
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DAMASCUS – US House speaker Nancy Pelosi was holding talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Wednesday on a two-day trip to Damascus that has infuriated the White House.
(Full Story)Source: middle-east-online.com
- Wednesday, April 4, 2007
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By Carolyn Weaver
In 1992, Somali-born feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali was forced by her family into an unwanted marriage. On her way to live with her new husband in Canada, she claimed political asylum in the Netherlands, and settled there, working as a cleaning lady, and later as an interpreter for asylum claimants and battered immigrant women. She also earned a master's degree in political science.
(Full Story)Source: voanews.com
- Saturday, March 24, 2007
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NEW YORK - Professor Charles Taylor, a Canadian philosopher who for nearly half a century has argued that problems such as violence and bigotry can only be solved by considering both their secular and spiritual dimensions, has won the 2007 Templeton Prize.
(Full Story)Source: templetonprize.org
- Thursday, March 15, 2007
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By Dan Thomas
PARIS, France – Fifty-eight countries represented at a high-level conference in Paris committed themselves on Tuesday, February 6, to stopping the unlawful recruitment and use of children in armed conflicts.
(Full Story)Source: unicef.org
- Wednesday, February 7, 2007
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Belgrade - Serbian leaders have rejected a UN proposal on the status of Kosovo. The draft proposal, presented by United Nations envoy Martti Ahtisaari, supports giving Kosovo access to international institutions, but does not explicitly refer to "independence."
(Full Story)Source: rferl.org
- Saturday, February 3rd 2007
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Istanbul - Thousands of mourners gathered in central Istanbul to pay their last respects to Hrant Dink, the Turkish journalist of Armenian origin who was shot dead last week. "We are all Hrant Dink" and "We are all Armenians" -- those are some of the signs held up by the thousands of mourners gathered beneath the offices of Dink's "Agos" newspaper in central Istanbul.
(Full Story)Source: rferl.org
- Tuesday, January 23, 2007
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London -The credibility of the United States has been undermined by the current administration's use of torture and detention without trial, and the European Union must "fill the leadership void on human rights." That's the main conclusion of Human Rights Watch's "World Report 2007," which was released to coincide with the fifth anniversary of Guantanamo Bay receiving its first detainees.
(Full Story)Source: rferl.org
- Thursday, January 11, 2007
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Washington - Some of the United States's closest allies have welcomed U.S. President George W. Bush's new plans for Iraq, which include sending an extra 21,500 troops to help quell the violence there. Britain's Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said it showed the U.S. and Iraqi governments are determined to deal with the security situation.
(Full Story)Source: rferl.org
- Thursday, January 11, 2007
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By Heather Maher
The latest national poll data shows Americans evenly divided on Bush's proposal. A CBS News poll of 1,000 people conducted the first three days of January found 45 percent of Americans in favor of more troops and 48 percent opposed. However, a majority, 55 percent, said they didn't believe more troops would help the violent and unstable situation in Baghdad. Thirty-five percent said they thought it would.
(Full Story)Source: rferl.org
- Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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