January 2011 Blog Posts (88)

WASHINGTON - The Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington on Thursday hoisted its national flag for the first

We can't give you your land back, so run along with this flag instead

Highly symbolic US gesture towards Palestinian but no change of status for their…

Hundreds of Tunisians rallied against their new government on Wednesday, as the leadership tried to defuse public

Seeking 'a new republic'

Tunisian demonstrators call for abolition of RCD, demand new parliament, new constituion.

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The resignation of three ministers rocked Tunisia's fledgling unity government Tuesday as protesters vented their anger

'The dictator has fallen but the dictatorship not yet'

Anger against new Tunisian government line-up brings thousands of protesters onto streets

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BEIRUT -- The dramatic developments in Tunisia in the past weeks that have seen street demonstrators send former

The grievances that the Tunisian demonstrators have articulated in recent weeks - and in other forms in recent decades - are also widely shared across the entire Arab world, notes Rami G. Khouri.

 President Zein el-Abedeen Ben Ali fleeing the country may prove to be the historic…

Fleeing his country from protests after 23 years of iron-fisted rule, Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali found

'Ironic'

Saudis give Tunisia's Ben Ali refuge in 2011, as they gave Uganda's Idi Amin and Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif before…

AMMAN - Governments across the Middle East anxiously watched developments in Tunisia on Sunday after the ouster

Jordanian protesters: 'where are the political reforms?'

Administrations in Mideast increasingly uneasy as opposition groups see inspiration in…

Israel is set to approve 1,400 new homes in an east Jerusalem settlement, media reports and the local council said

Fresh Israeli defiance of the international community

Israel to approve 1,400 new illegal settlement units in occupied Palestinian east…

MADRID - Asma Al-Haidari, an Amman-based Iraqi human rights analyst and advocate, says the phenomenon of

No safe place

Analyst says enforced disappearances in Iraq touch whole population, irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity or…

WASHINGTON - A US rights group Thursday appealed to a court in the case of former prisoners in Iraq and

They are not optimistic to win the case

ACLU appeals to court in case of former prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan who accuse ex-defense secretary of being to blame for…

WASHINGTON - Last year tied with 2005 as the warmest year on record for global surface temperature, US

Global warming contributed to the devastating floods in Pakistan

Earth in 2010 experienced temperatures higher than 20th century average for 34th year in a…

Sudan could be removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism as early as July if Khartoum recognizes the

US: 'we seek a better relationship with the government of Sudan'

Washington links Sudan's removal from US terror list to Khartoum's recognition…