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Back to homepageTurkey asks UN to take tougher measures in Syria 0
Post Views: 6 Chairman Abdulbaset Sida (C), during a meeting held by his Syrian National Council in ?stanbul on Saturday, said the opposition would now have a stronger voice. (Photo: AA) Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has pleaded for the UN
Read MoreEgypt’s choice leaves voters out of sorts 0
Post Views: 7 Mixed turnout as voters make what many see as unappealing choice between an Islamist and Mubarak’s last prime minister With the country’s politics in turmoil and increasingly polarised, Egyptians have voted in a presidential runoff that pits
Read MoreUN suspends Syria observer mission 0
Post Views: 12 The UN military observers sent to Syria to monitor an April 12 ceasefire that never took hold have suspended their mission, veteran peacekeeper Norwegian Major General Robert Mood said on Saturday. Speaking of intensified violence over the
Read MoreGreeks go to polls on day of economic destiny 0
Post Views: 8 Voters face stark choice between rejecting austerity and risking ejection from euro, or accepting punishing rescue deal Polling stations have opened in Greece where voters face a stark dilemma between rejecting austerity and risking the country’s place
Read More13 inmates killed in Turkish prison fire 0
Post Views: 9 Several ambulances and police units are entering into the ?anl?urfa E-type Prison to recue the victims of prison fire. (Photo: AA) Inmates in a prison in southeast Turkey set beds and blankets alight, starting a fire that
Read MoreUludere victims’ families ask Erdo?an to stand up for justice 0
Post Views: 13 Mothers of the 34 civilians killed in an airstrike by the Turkish military in December last year want justice for their children. (Photo: Today’s Zaman) Families of the victims of Uludere and civil society organizations that have
Read MoreRupert Murdoch pressured Tony Blair over Iraq, says Alastair Campbell 0
Post Views: 13 Murdoch joined an ‘over-crude’ attempt by US Republicans to accelerate British involvement in the Iraq war, Campbell say Rupert Murdoch previously told the eveson inquiry: ‘I’ve never asked a prime minister for anything.’ Photograph: Mike Theiler/EPA Rupert
Read MoreIf the Greek Left Can Terrify the Eurocrats, What’s with the US Left and Obama? 0
Post Views: 7 Regard the Greek political landscape and how dramatically it has changed from last November. On November 2, 2011, Greek prime minister George Papandreou flew to Cannes before a G20 meeting and received one of the most humiliating
Read MoreEgypt votes for president amid controversy 0
Post Views: 4 Egypt’s presidential election gets under way as Muslim Brotherhood candidate faces Mubarak-era PM in runoff Polls have opened in Egypt’s presidential runoff election amid controversy after the supreme court dissolved parliament and the country’s military rulers re-asserted
Read MoreDeaths in Pakistan market blast 0
Post Views: 12 At least 14 killed after blast rips through market in Khyber tribal district near border with Afghanistan A bomb blast has ripped through a market area in a northwest Pakistan tribal town near the Afghan border, killing
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