Perhaps an overhaul of the government machinery is one of the most urgent requirements, even before the intended elections for next year. Also serious discussion and planning with full coordination are also required between the foreign military forces in the
The spokesman said the "insulting" article was written by mid-ranking cleric Rasoul Montajab-Nia in today's edition of Etemad Melli (National Confidence) - the newspaper of a reformist party with the same name. In the article, Montajab-Nia listed several comments attributed
Beirut/ London - The United Kingdom on Wednesday decided to add the military wing of Hezbollah to its list of designated terrorist groups, the Home Office said.
Beirut- Former Lebanese Prime Minister Omar Karami criticized the Hezbollah-led opposition for agitating factional tension. During an interview at LBC TV , he also accused "allies in the opposition" of restricting decision-making to themselves.
After a two-week fact-finding tour of US prison and detention facilities, a UN human rights investigator has blasted the administration of President George W. Bush for a rash of shortcomings in the country's flawed justice system and continued violations of
The African Union announced on Tuesday that it was extending the mandate of its force in Somalia for another six months but urged the United Nations to take over the peacekeeping mission. The bloc's 15-member Peace and Security Council underlined
Iraq's main Sunni Arab parliamentary bloc says it is poised to rejoin the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki after boycotting it for nearly a year, in what would be a major boost for reconciliation efforts in the war-torn
NATO and US troops killed dozens of militants on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, officials said Tuesday, after the foreign forces suffered their deadliest month since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001. US-led helicopters and bombers killed 33 insurgents in eastern
Israel's government has barred a UN human rights delegation from visiting the Palestinian areas on a fact-finding mission, the leader of the group said on Tuesday. "Israeli authorities did not allow us to visit the Palestinian territories," said Prasad Kariyawasam,
The emir of Qatar on Tuesday enlarged the government to 19 members by creating new portfolios and appointed a second woman to the cabinet at the head of a reinstated Health Ministry. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al-Thani keeps
At least 26 people, mainly combatants, were killed Tuesday in fighting between Ethiopian forces and Islamist insurgents in central Somalia, residents said. The incident was one of the most serious in months and came a week before a deadline for
A top adviser to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned on Tuesday against the "provocative" statements on the nuclear crisis used by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "The officials and the political experts need to avoid provocative and illogical declarations and
The Occupied West Bank faces grave water shortages largely as a result of "discriminatory" Israeli policies, an Israeli human rights group said on Tuesday. "The shortage will have serious repercussions on the economy and the health of tens of thousands
Human Rights Watch called Tuesday on the Moroccan authorities to drop charges against the Al-Jazeera bureau chief in Rabat, and a human rights activist, for disseminating "false information." The trial of Al-Jazeera's Hassan Rachidi, and Ibrahim Sebaa El Layl from
The remains of at least 11 workers have been recovered from the rubble of a seven-story building that collapsed in northwest Tehran, local media reported Tuesday. Around 20 construction workers were trapped under the debris of the building when it
A new humanitarian action plan is needed for Afghanistan, where people are being hit by resurgent fighting and a food shortage, the United Nations' top aid official said Tuesday. "I think we do need to step up our efforts," said
Israel's top court on Tuesday rejected a petition to revoke the accreditation of a French television team which a right-wing group accused of staging footage of a Palestinian child apparently being killed by soldiers in 2000. "Such a measure can
At least 25 people died and many others were injured in a bus accident on a highway in central Iran on Tuesday, state television reported. The accident happened in the morning on the highway between Tehran and Qom when the
Charamba also appeared to reject a Kenyan-style power-sharing deal. "I don't know what power-sharing is," Charamba said. "Kenya is Kenya, Zimbabwe is Zimbabwe." Meanwhile, Botswana called on AU to bar Mugabe from regional meetings as the summit adopted a resolution
