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Rozanne Chorlton. “So Somalia on track to be measles- and tetanus-free,” Ms. Chorlton told the briefing, underscoring the need to keep up this level of activity. “Really big things can happen in Somalia in terms of humanitarian service delivery, in...

Antonio Maria Costa said huge amounts of heroin and cocaine were being traded by "terrorists and anti-government forces" to fund their operations. He called for a trans-Saharan network to be set up to tackle criminal groups. Officials last month found...

An Australian photojournalist recently released after being held hostage for 15 months in Somalia said Wednesday he was trying to highlight the plight of those less fortunate when he was kidnapped. Nigel Brennan and Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were kidnapped...

Spain has apologised to Gibraltar after four Spanish maritime civil guards landed on the Rock while pursuing suspected smugglers. The interior minister, Alfrédo Perez Rubalcaba, rang the chief minister of Gibraltar, Peter Caruana, to explain there was no political motive...

Resolution of the European Union yesterday of the project, the Swedish position regarding Jerusalem, amendments weakened the resolution, which did not mention East Jerusalem the capital of a Palestinian state, but only with reference to the city as the «capital...

What is happening in Kuwait? Is it true democratic developments should be welcome to be a struggle or a negative result in serious consequences on the path of political life in Kuwait? Kuwaiti National Council will hold a hearing in...

Accused the Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, the United States of kidnapping an Iranian nuclear scientist, while he was in Saudi Arabia this year. The official Iranian news conference in Tehran that his government there have some evidence to suggest...

Received the U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday in Oslo, the Nobel Peace Prize Khodah despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and his decision finally to send reinforcements from tens of thousands of American soldiers to fight the Taliban...

Human rights deteriorated across the Arab world in 2009 with torture widely practiced in several countries, namely Egypt, an Arab watchdog said Tuesday. The 230-page report by the independent Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies surveyed 12 countries and said that...

He said that the publishing of the harmonised draft constitution and the adoption by the National Assembly of the Sessional Paper on Land Reform were major achievements. "We believe these developments reflect fresh momentum in the reform process.