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PUERTO VALLARTA - Developing countries are increasingly concerned over a brain drain from key areas such

'Selective immigration deprives the country of origin of an indispensable factor for their development'

Morocco among countries underlining negative implications of…

US First Lady Michelle Obama was a picture of modest elegance as she visited Southeast Asia's biggest

US First Lady in modest elegance

Istiqlal mosque hailed as symbol of 'inspiring' message of inclusiveness, cooperation between religions.…

UNITED NATIONS - Iran failed to secure a seat on a key board running the new UN super agency to improve

Ebadi had said before the vote that having either Iran or Saudi Arabia on the board of UN Women would be a joke

Iran fails to get seat on UN Women board as…

JERUSALEM - The United States is to significantly increase the amount of military equipment held in Israel as

Where will these weapons be used?

United States to move extra 400-million-dollars worth of weaponry, equipment to…

The Muslims were bloodthirsty and treacherous. They conducted a sneak attack against the French army and

The Crusades lasted hundreds of years. Let’s hope that Crusade 2.0, and the dark age that we find ourselves in, has a far shorter lifespan, says John Feffer.

slaughtered every single soldier, 20,000 in all. More than 1,000 years ago, in the mountain passes of Spain, the Muslim…

JERUSALEM - Clashes broke out in the southern Bedouin city of Rahat early on Sunday as Israeli police

Living under continuous persecution

Israeli police fire rubber bullets, tear-gas at Bedouins protesting against demolition of their…

Would Meryl Streep, Spike Lee, Tim Robbins or Susan Sarandon be willing to swear an oath of loyalty to the

The struggle between the democratic demand that all citizens be treated equally and Zionism’s hyper-nationalist ideal seems to have been determined once and for all, notes Neve Gordon.

United States and its policies in order to receive public funding for feature films that they star in,…

Less than two weeks before the world's largest annual gathering, 1.5 million Muslims from around the world

Two million Muslims are expected to perform hajj ritual, which is expected to begin on November 14.

By Paul Handley - JEDDAH

have flooded into the holy cities of Mecca and Medina for…

WASHINGTON - The administration of President Barack Obama has deployed unmanned Predator drones in

US drone strikes are seen as a good recruiter for Al-Qaeda

Yemeni officials express deep reservations about US weapons which they see as…

Democracy in the Middle East continues to be a hugely popular topic of discussion. Its virtues are tirelessly

Have Middle Eastern ruling elites figured out the democracy trick, the great con of our time? Have they realized that democracy in the Middle East is only what the White House says it can be? Asks Ramzy Baroud

praised by rulers and oppositions alike, by intellectuals and ordinary people, by…

MANAMA - Some Arab states have made significant strides in human development over the past 40 years, but

Impressive long-term improvements in health and education

UN report states high-achieving Arab countries can attribute their success largely to impressive…