JERUSALEM — Israel’s foreign minister charged Monday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is an “obstacle” to peace and that he hopes Abbas will soon resign.
JERUSALEM — Israel’s foreign minister charged Monday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is an “obstacle” to peace and that he hopes Abbas will soon resign.
Some more members from the newly-elected Shura are also expected to be inducted into the cabinet
DUBAI — The famine in five regions of southern Somalia could spread to the entire area if relief supplies do not reach the starving population on time. The next four to six weeks could be crucial, according to a senior UN official, who said the humanitarian effort should be stepped up before it is too late.
JERUSALEM — Ceremoniously announced last month, reconciliation between the two rival Palestinian leaderships — the secular Fatah and the Islamist Hamas — hit a serious snag Sunday, another sign that the effort is not going well.
SANAA — Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was wounded on Friday when shells hit a mosque in the presidential compound killing four guards, has ruled through more than three decades of Middle East turmoil.
SANAA - Six Yemeni soldiers were killed in a tribal revenge attack on Saturday in the southeastern province of Al-Baida, a tribal leader and a security official said.
The afternoon air bears an eerie chill accompanied by a fear of the unknown on Tunisia’s border with Libya. The flood of refugees from last week has now fallen to a trickle.
CAIRO - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak clung to power on Saturday as protesters took to the streets again to demand that he quit.
When faced with problems, most authoritarian regimes maintain a policy of rigidity when the appropriate response would be flexibility, political wisdom and concessions. This policy gives authoritarian leaders their ability to control their populations to serve the interests of a few individuals and political and military elites. It can also, however, usher their downfall, for populations can only be oppressed, controlled and punished to a point.
BAGHDAD - Three UAE nationals, who were kidnapped a few days ago in Iraq, have been freed.