News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| 3 days ago
The basic feature of human rights in Egypt today is the prevalence of a policy of exception in which those responsible for violations usually escape punishment amid a climate of impunity intentionally created and fostered for several decades," said
News Source: Yemen Observer
| 3 days ago
Iran and Yemen have taken their spat to the streets, literally. A street in Sana’a was recently altered to “Nada al-Sultan Street,” named for the slain Iranian protestor, after Iran named a capital city road “Hussein al-Houthi Street,”
News Source: Voice of America
| 4 days ago
Arrott Mourner paying respects to exiled King Fouad II of Egyp (l) at the funeral of his sister Princess Ferial, Cairo, 01 Dec 2009 Share This The body of the late Princess Ferial, the daughter of Egypt's last ruling king, has been returned home
News Source: Tulsa World
| 16 days ago
Voters in the first election in 1908 chose Sapulpa over Bristow by a majority vote of 539 votes. In this election, Sapulpa was favored by a majority of 263 votes in much heavier voting. Sapulpa was named the county seat in the constitutional
News Source: Jerusalem Post
| 16 days ago
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is interested in aiming for a final-status agreement, and not an interim one as some of his ministers are proposing, if and when negotiations with the Palestinian Authority resume, The Jerusalem Post has learned. In
News Source: Arab News
| 17 days ago
To his detractors he represents the ruling elite responsible for the stagnation of the Arab world's most populous nation. However one looks at it, there is no denying that Gamal Mubarak is a powerful force in the National Democratic Party that has
News Source: Magic City Morning Star
| 17 days ago
Jan I, King of France (Nov 15-19 1316), dies 1367 - League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV 1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage 1495 - Alfonso II, King of Naples (1494-95), dies 1521 - Battle at Milan:
News Source: Haaretz
| 20 days ago
The municipal committee in Tel Aviv that is responsible for naming streets was due to convene last week to discuss complaints of discrimination from residents of Jaffa, but the meeting was postponed due to illness. As the date for the discussion